Oh, my!
Our youngest cat loves to hunt for snakes.(our other two cats could care less). We have garter snakes up North, on the shore. They come out to sun on the rocks to warm up.
2 summers ago Oreo was hot on a small one..like the size you described, Kitty, and it got frightened and did a "dead" thing.
Flipped over rolled into a spiral and held its breath. She was totally flummoxed. So she backed off it...and waited, and after a time it flipped back and zipped into a rock crevice...she missed it.
We also saw an young newly fledged eagle across the bay (with binos) catch a bigger snake! That was interesting since he didn't know what to do with it --he had trouble holding on to it!
Snakes go down into mouse and chipmunk holes and eat the babies. I wish I had some here...as the chipmunks we have are sooooo destructive!
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