Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Rat-Catching Snakes. [ARTICLE]

Rat-Catching Snakes.

• They appear to be turning makes to good account in Brazil, for rats have become.so abundant that a domestic snake, the giboya, which has about the circumference of the arm, Is sold In the market-place in Rio Janeiro to be kept in the house as a protection against rodents. It would seem that the serpent pursues Its prey more for the pleasure there Is In it than from a sense of hunger, since It Is said that It rarely eats the rats caught. Similar in its habits and attachments to the domestic cat of more northern latitudes, the giboya will, it is said, find its way back to the house of its master, even if transported to a considerably distance.