DEAR JOAN: I saw your column where you answered a letter from someone asking about getting rid of gophers. People are worried about being humane in getting rid of pests like gophers, squirrels, rats ...

Arizona has many venomous and scary-looking snakes, not to mention we also have some of the biggest snakes as well. The gopher snake is the undisputed heavyweight champion of Arizona snakes, often ...

As it turns out, gopher snakes don’t have the corner on swimming. With nearly 4,000 snake species worldwide, it’s impossible to know how many of them swim. Some are rare or endangered. And in some ...

After returning home from a five-week vacation in Portugal, we found that our toilet was difficult to flush. The handle didn’t seem to go down all the way. This continued for several days. Then, in ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – A man was bitten by a gopher snake on the Centennial Trail after stepping on it. Pest control expert Elmer Bensinger explained that such incidents are rare and gopher snakes are not ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The live snake captured in Pukalani, Maui on Monday was tentatively identified by agriculture officials as a non-venomous female gopher snake. State officials said it was ...

It's illegal to possess and transport snakes in Hawaii because if the non-native reptiles were to gain a foothold it could be devastating for native wildlife. So when a gopher snake was discovered ...

On April 30, Jessica Y. found a snake by her Valley Center house, picked it up, then snapped a selfie. Jessica, posted the photo on Facebook and captioned it: “Instead of killing gopher snakes: pick ...

Hawaii is not tolerant when it comes to snakes being brought to the islands, and the recent discovery (and prompt killing) of a gopher snake is a case in point. The state Department of Agriculture ...

Many amphibians and reptiles are in trouble in a variety of places around the world, including Orange County, their numbers driven down by loss of habitat and other factors – for nocturnal species, ...