Ringneck Snake

[32shooter]

I was out in the backyard doing some shooting(yes it was a Ruger) and my wife comes out on the deck, in her underwear, yelling at me to get in the house immediately. So in I go and this is what she has to show me. It was in the family room, a Northern Ringneck snake which measured about 4". So I scoop it up and throw it out. We have been finding several a year in the house, usually late summer. Anyone else get them in the house??

 

[ncrobb]

If we found a snake in our house my wife would call a moving company. I did find a black snake in the basement once several years ago.

 

[Jeepnik]

Dang, I though this was going in an entirely different direction. :mrgreen:

The only reptiles I've found in the house have been lizards. All were brought to me by one of my cats.

By the way, when you move into a new house, you're lying on the floor fixing the electrical and you cat drops a blue belly that runs up you pant leg, your heart race and you can strip down in record time.

Oh, I didn't see what it was until after I had stripped down. Cat just sat there staring. Must have thought it was quite a show. :evil:

 

[stevemb]

We find those in Elk County Penn, at camp. Haven't found any here in NE Ohio. Do sometimes find what looks like a 6" milk snake or relative, here, in the house or yard.

 

[Mike Armstrong]

I find 'em in the leaf litter under our shrubs, but have never found one in the house. They mainly eat stuff like slugs, so are useful to us gardeners.

If I recall correctly, they belong to a group of "back fanged" snakes that are technically venomous but have their fangs in the back of the mouth. The only dangerous one is in Southern Africa, called a Boomslang ("tree snake" in Afrikans). And Ringed Neck Snake fangs are nearly microscopic and can't penetrate human skin. Do a number on a slug, tho!

 

[32shooter]

I have always left the snakes go around the house, do see an occasional garter or milk snake, but the only ringnecks I usually see are in the house. Probably because they are nocturnal. But I would prefer they stay OUT of the house so the wife does not go bonkers and threatens to call an exterminator or move out.

 

[Highstandardguy]

These were very common in eastern Kansas when I lived there. Only one I ever found in the house was an escapee from my oldest son's "collection". Actually my wife found it in the bathroom which caused a bit of excitement.

 

[32shooter]

You can't help but wonder if the snake made it's way into the house, or was born in the house.

No one had better suggest this to my wife!! I think the old one lives outside and the babies are getting in through a small hole/crack. :wink: :wink:

 

[gramps]

If you are going to have snakes, the Ring Neck is the one to have. Eats insects, and a large cute factor. fairly benign.
gramps

 

[WendyZXZ]

If you are going to have snakes, the Ring Neck is the one to have. Eats insects, and a large cute factor. fairly benign.
gramps

Those are the kinds of snake we like around here. Let them eat the bugs and rodents and I am happy. Of course walking into the bathroom at 2:00 am when nature calls and seeing a snake on the floor can wake you up quickly like happened to me. I just grabbed it by the tail and tossed it outside.

 

[gramps]

If you are going to have snakes, the Ring Neck is the one to have. Eats insects, and a large cute factor. fairly benign.
gramps

Those are the kinds of snake we like around here. Let them eat the bugs and rodents and I am happy. Of course walking into the bathroom at 2:00 am when nature calls and seeing a snake on the floor can wake you up quickly like happened to me. I just grabbed it by the tail and tossed it outside.

At 0200, just sit and watch the critter. It won't harm you, and it may find its way back outside or not. :mrgreen:
gramps

 

[WendyZXZ]

If you are going to have snakes, the Ring Neck is the one to have. Eats insects, and a large cute factor. fairly benign.
gramps

Those are the kinds of snake we like around here. Let them eat the bugs and rodents and I am happy. Of course walking into the bathroom at 2:00 am when nature calls and seeing a snake on the floor can wake you up quickly like happened to me. I just grabbed it by the tail and tossed it outside.

At 0200, just sit and watch the critter. It won't harm you, and it may find its way back outside or not. :mrgreen:
gramps

Well in the snake's defense I wanted to protect it as well, being stepped on might be bad for its health.

 

[gramps]

So true Wendy!
gramps

 

[Kanook]

If anyone wants to know, laughing is not the correct response when a ringneck falls on your wife's head.

She grabbed one of my extension cords that was hanging on the wall and it was resting on it.

 

[Mike J]

Haven't had any of those in the house. A couple of years ago we had talked to the girls about snakes & that if they saw one to get away from it & come get one of us. It wasn't an hour later my youngest girl came in out of breath telling me about the snake in the back yard. I went out & looked where she said the snake was & didn't see it. She came & showed me. It was a ringneck snake about 3"-4" long and 1/4" thick. I was impressed she spotted it in the grass.