Admittedly, we don't make a cage trap specifically designed to capture snakes, but that's just what happened a couple of days ago. We received a video from a Colorado trapper with a 4 foot bull snake caught in one of the Comstock 5x5x24 squirrel cage traps. The snake had crawled in and fired the trigger holding him inside. Evidently the snake's head was small enough o fit through the 1/2 x 1 mesh to get stuck half way out. At that point he could not go forward or back, which is how he was found. With a snip of one wire the snake was freed and released. I guess bull snakes eat rodents as a primary food source, but may also eat a rattlesnake, which I'm sure no one minds. At any rate, this is the first known snake catch in a Comstock cage trap.
The list of odd or interesting catches and occurrences grows. We have heard of Iguana, Snake, Piglet, Fish including Salmon, Carp, Bass, Pike, Suckers, Brook Trout etc., Turkey, Chickadee, Duck, Mice along with all of the expected catches, beaver, bobcat, otter, raccoon, muskrat, mink, squirrels including fox, gray, red and flying squirrels, fox-red and gray, fisher, coyote, skunk, woodchuck, armadillo, mountain beaver, rats, chipmunks and now doubt a bunch more we have forgotten or haven't heard about.
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