Cat snake bite may be less dangerous than you think.

It's interesting that a dog snake bite can be more deadly that a cat snake bite. All of our pets are strays or rescue animals and Rusty is a rescue cat who arrived in 1989. When we moved to a rural area I was really mindful of having a cat and made sure she was always in at night and not able to kill any native wildlife - to be honest at 19 years of age the only thing she kills is time. For ecological reasons I decided not have another cat once this one had gone.

BUT NOT NOW!!! – I just couldn’t imagine living here without a cat, they are great snake finders and cat snake bite is less dangerous than dog snake bite a lot of the time so it seems.

Learn how to avoid having a snake problem in the first place.

This is a MUST SEE part of my site if you are worried about garden snakes

Snake FAQ Part 1 AND Snake FAQ Part 2

Here I have photos of places where snakes love to live, especially around the home. There is too much information for one page so I have spread it out over two pages.

Make sure you look at both pages PLEASE as there may be something of vital interest to you on one of them.

If she sees one of us go over slowly to check it out she comes over as well, at times her diligence is un-nerving. Just when we think it’s safe - the cats tail starts to twitch and quiver!!!!!!!!

She never gets too close to a snake (your cat might though so watch for signs of cat snake bite), her intention just seems to be to make us aware that she has seen one.

(This last week she has shown an unhealthy interest at what’s under one of the beds where I stored some small boxes. In the end we gave in to her and cleared everything away – no snake was found but our cat has us well trained now. She seems to have worked out that when she shows too much interest we will clear out space for her little naps.)

We are back into the middle of the snake season again and are on high alert for signs the cat has seen one. Seems odd, but as soon as she warns us the first thing we do is bring the dogs inside as they probably won't survive a snake bite:)

Cat Snake Bite