Snake Catcher Wagga

17/11/2024

Snake catcher perks! Well played Josh Castle 🐍🐍

21/09/2024

This photo was taken on one of our customers friends properties. They sent it to us with a caption "I am so not interested in seeeing this. I seriously need to start pre paying you." Made us giggle. But look at their happy faces. Ha ha If you need a snake catcher, call us on 0490 415 734 or find us at www.hodgsonssnakes.com.au, but don't forget to like and follow our page for regular information

12/09/2024

Combat time!🐍🐍🐍

Here is 3 beautiful male Red-bellied black snakes in combat over a nearby female.
After 45 minutes, 2 boys had tired and taken off allowing the winner to get the girl!

This video displays typical combat behaviour, which is often mistaken for mating. These highly venomous snakes are also demonstrating how snakes don’t just go around biting and wasting their venom unnecessarily.

Thanks so much to Susie Pulis for taking such amazing footage and allowing me to share some of it ❤️🐍

23/08/2024

As weather and seasonal change approaches, reptiles are starting to emerge from their winter snoozing activities 🐍🦎

Transitioning into spring (also snake mating season) can be a challenging time for our native reptiles, people and pets.

Here is a link to a more detailed post by one of my colleagues with some management tips on how best to avoid negative interactions with snakes, for humans and pets during this seasonal change.

I’m available in Wagga area for property assessments and reptile relocation. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, or need advice on how you can feel safer living with our slithery friends 🐍🦎

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With the warm weather quickly approaching and snakes sightings and activity starting to increase. It’s a good time for a reminder.
This time of year can be a very difficult time for snakes and our pets. Spring is the mating period for most snake species and this leads males on great journeys looking for girls. They can be very oblivious to their surrounds, with only one thing on their mind and just focusing on the scent trails they are on. This can take them out into the open and areas they’d normally avoid. Increasing their chances of crossing paths with people and our pets.
If you do happen to see one passing through your yard, the best approach is to move pets and people away, watch from a safe distance and either allow the snake to move on or call a professional to come remove it. Intentionally interacting with snakes (trying to catch or kill the snake) is one of the leading causes of snake bite.

I know these ideas may not be for everyone, but a few things that could help prevent dogs or other pets interacting with snakes.

- creating and using a snake proofed penned area when you are not around to supervise.
- snake proofing pet yard with mouse mesh.
- run lengths of pvc pipe along fence lines and secure them, for snakes to possibly escape to. I use these in my yard to help blue tongues escape my dogs. If a snake has access to hide in something it could prevent an interaction and a bite to your dog or pet.
- chat to dog trainers about snake avoidance training.

If anyone else has ideas that could help. Feel free to put them in the comments.

It’s also a very good idea to get yourself a snake bite first aid kit, have a plan in place (for people and pets) if a bite was to occur and also speak to your local vets for advice.

A great snake identification and educational group for those interested

Australian Snake Identification, Education + Advocacy [ASIEA]

Snake picture is a red-naped snake (Furina diadema)

02/05/2024

Snakes do not want to hurt you, nor waste their venom on a non-food source. They just want to get about their snakey business 🐍

As demonstrated by this Red-Bellied Black Snake I met today.