Hello Chandra,
I have personally seen a dog killing a snake no idea of the snake but it was definitely poisonous as per local person. He occasionally goes out for hunting(If caught he will be behind bars with no bail), One day he landed on our place after chasing the animal(He has trained his dog to track down monitor lizards, mongoose, porcupine and a few other creatures from more than 1 km away). That is the reason I mentioned native dog. They may not be agile as mongoose. But I saw this dog leap over like a monkey to the opposite site and bite the snakes head and whacked it few times on the ground.
He said you have to select any healthy dog and train him, he never keeps him tied. and lets him go where ever he goes. One boy was torn apart when he tried to touch his daughter some time back. western breeds look healthy and adorable however they are kind of sluggish and not to mention the maintain behind them(not all the breeds). I guess it is more to do with the high caloric feed and a lazy approach.
One of my family member has a native dog, she is very intelligent, she tries her level best to keep off any type of creatures from their land. Even snakes but they get scared she may get bitten one day.
Mongoose is best at it. But it has become a pest on our land. They are every where. During summer months rabies is at its peak(virus gets activated in summer months it seems). Mongoose have bitten some cattle and humans in my locality in past few years of my stay here and there has been a some deaths.
After you mentioned squirrels I searched online I guess it is land squirrels(they are bigger) and not the once that stay on tree.
Few months back a huge rat snake was trying to catch a tree squirrel on our land. but some how she escaped.
haridevarapalli
read you blog. great to know you have ongole breed. Do you own a bull as well or just 3 cows?
Eager to read about your progress with cows and other farm activity.