Last week I shared my install of a little TP-LINK Tapo cam to watch the status LEDs on my fiber modem. Nothing much going on until about 9:19 PM Sunday night when Blue Iris sent me a motion alert. I walk into the office, look at the screen and here's this rat snake crawling up the back board and atop the modem.
I head out to open the utility closet in the garage where the modem is, along with the electrical panel and water heater, and grabbed some gloves. I've caught several rat snakes over the last few years and of course they're not poisonous but they can bite like hell...I'm on blood thinner anyway and also don't need the bacteria they can carry in their tiny sharp teeth.
I flipped on the light and then realized how big he was...a pretty one, he was about 4 ft. long. I decided to pick up a squeegee with a 2 ft. handle, slid it under him about 2 ft. from his head and he was very cooperative and calm, took him outside and laid him down on the driveway, which was captured by my Reolink doorbell at the side door I had just put in the week before! Into the hot, humid night he went to live another day.
Tomorrow I think I'll look into the gaps in the weatherstripping on the bottom of the garage door.....
First, at the fiber modem by the Tapo C-110:
View attachment Cam16.20230625_190622_1.mp4
Second, the driveway release, caught by the Reolink doorbell:
View attachment Cam29.20230625_170512_1.mp4
I head out to open the utility closet in the garage where the modem is, along with the electrical panel and water heater, and grabbed some gloves. I've caught several rat snakes over the last few years and of course they're not poisonous but they can bite like hell...I'm on blood thinner anyway and also don't need the bacteria they can carry in their tiny sharp teeth.
I flipped on the light and then realized how big he was...a pretty one, he was about 4 ft. long. I decided to pick up a squeegee with a 2 ft. handle, slid it under him about 2 ft. from his head and he was very cooperative and calm, took him outside and laid him down on the driveway, which was captured by my Reolink doorbell at the side door I had just put in the week before! Into the hot, humid night he went to live another day.
Tomorrow I think I'll look into the gaps in the weatherstripping on the bottom of the garage door.....
First, at the fiber modem by the Tapo C-110:
View attachment Cam16.20230625_190622_1.mp4
Second, the driveway release, caught by the Reolink doorbell:
View attachment Cam29.20230625_170512_1.mp4
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