I uploaded enough videos yesterday for a week, so didn’t intend to post any updates today, or perhaps for a few days, but …
Instead of chasing the rabbits around inside the domes with a big fishing net to catch and migrate them from the dome colonies to the individual cages I’m building, I decided to just use live critter traps.
Every few hours I check the traps and move any captured rabbits into the cages, after checking them over (health, gender).
First time I checked on the dome 2 traps this morning, I found one baby bunny in the larger trap … and a mongo snake in the dome with a baby bunny in its gut!
Given the size of the snake, it must have made an effort to ingress the dome, because I’ve installed two feet (height) of 1/2″ metal fabric fencing all the way around the base of the dome just to keep snakes out. That said, I’ve seen these big black snakes climb about 40 feet up a tree, so I suppose it wouldn’t stretch the imagination too much to think they might be able to climb a 2 foot fence.
I let the two donks ‘play’ with the snake for a few minutes before turning it loose in the woods. Black snakes are beneficial (mouse and rat control), so they get pardoned when caught … even if they’ve eaten one of my precious baby buns. Prick.