sad fact is that they are reproducing and spreading,just like the snakes futher south and neither will evr be removed completly now.and unreported fact is that ther is a breading population of cobra in Maini
I figured that by now this thread would have morphed into what would be best to shoot'im with. Use enough gun? how much is enough? how much is too much? Or would a certain scent like predator urine spread around deter it? I don't think they make a Havahart trap that big so maybe it's gun time.
Been trying for two days to get a shot at the bastard, he has decimated my daughters poultry, kills the chickens or ducks and leaves them to rot. She also has a cat missing.
Son-in-Law missed with the shotgun the other day but all he had was #8 so he might have got some in it, damn thing is wicked quick and wary as hell.
Staked out in the Sportage with the binoculars and a .357 lever gun. GRRRRR, I want this thing bad!
So far about $300.00 worth of chickens and ducks gone to waste as well as a lot of eggs.
I used to have a Savana Monitor that I bought from a pet shop when it was about six inches long, nose to end of tail. By the time I had to find it a new home he had reached about four feet long.
He started on crickets. Them moved up to "pinkies." Then to adult mice. Then to immature rats. By the time he was four feet long, I was feeding him adult rats, and the scene in your vid is very familiar to me.
PS I knew a guy who had converted several rooms of his home to correctly accommodate his various pet reptiles, and he was happy to take him off my hands when he outgrew the huge tank I was keeping him in, which for him was getting way too small.
look at the head of a savannah versus a nile, should ring a bell that something different is going on there....you know those giant snails down your way they are freaking out about? those make up a majority of their diet in the wild.....general thought now is unless you can feed them a diet heavy in large invertebrates and lots of snails to just not keep them.....high diet of read meat leads to fatty liver disease, two lil calcium moving through the gut and a shorter life....
granted they do eat things like small mammals and birds if they come across them in the wild but their range overlaps with the nile and thats what the nile focuses on....the savvies spend most of their time looking for the large invertebrates that permeate the region....
A serious student of the "Armchair Safari" always looking for Africa/Asia hunting books
most of this has come out in the last 5 years or so widely known anyways.....if yah read scientific papers you knew we werent feeding them anywhere close to their natural diet much earlier....
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A serious student of the "Armchair Safari" always looking for Africa/Asia hunting books
most of this has come out in the last 5 years or so widely known anyways.....if yah read scientific papers you knew we werent feeding them anywhere close to their natural diet much earlier....
I remember reading somewhere that they eat a lot of snails in the wild, and did provide it with some form time to time. Common practice back then was, in fact, just stick with canned dog food. I didn't like the idea, so I stuck with whole foods like rodents, with the occasional crayfish and some raw fish thrown in for a change.