Jill,
You may not like my solution but here it is, you could make your garden less
python friendly - get rid of the vines, any bushes that go to the ground,
any long grass - essentially create the typical un-bird friendly suburban
yard because that is also un-snake friendly. If there is no where to site
and hide then the snake is much less likely to be around.
The snake will have a home range that is larger than your garden - and
although you do not know where it is, the snake will. S/he should (one
hopes) find plenty of rats and frogs elsewhere in the territory (you don't
have a frog pond near the house do you?).
If you do need to have the dog outside when you are not home you could
enclose the dog run in 2cm bird wire (remembering to do the roof as well).
Because of the size of the snake I would imagine you will not need 1cm snake
and mouse wire. You may want to check that with Aust Zoo though. The cost
difference is fairly substantial. Shade cloth is another option for
enclosing the run but you will want to be very careful at the edges.
Of course if your dog is like mine it will fallow you around all the time
and refuse to go outside unless accompanied in any case, because you are so
much more interesting than anything else anyway.
Realistically I would do both I'm afraid - make the garden unfriendly and
enclose the dog run. An added benefit - you won't need to worry about
raptors!
cheers
storm
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