Sturgis270
Single-Sixer
I'm really not fond of snakes.http://www.channel3000.com/news/national-news/surprise-boy-finds-rattlesnake-in-toilet/306086469
Snakes in a house??
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This is just a guess, but I think that house could use a little bit of sealing.
That's a benefit of living in a cold climate. No snakes, and you seal all of the drafts.
That's a benefit of living in a cold climate. No snakes, and you seal all of the drafts.
Cassie Mcfadden killed the snake while dad, Jason, called Big Country Snake Removal. When the technician arrived, he found 24 Western diamondback rattlesnakes -- 13 in the cellar, five adults and five babies underneath the house, and the one snake in the toilet, which had entered through a relief pipe.
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Contender...I have a small problem. :shock: :shock: :shock:
trebor44
Blackhawk
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Dan in MI said:
Not quite true: http://bangordailynews.com/2011/06/15/news/idaho-couples-dream-home-was-infested-with-snakes/
Buzz worms are everywhere! :lol:
Don Lovel
Hunter
I found 20" long copperhead in my laundry basket one morning, big ole NOPE, I tossed the laundry basket in the yard and shot the contents with a Ruger 22 pistol
couple of holes in a towel and a dead copperhead
couple of holes in a towel and a dead copperhead
I have actually had ONE snake in the house. My old cat brought me a VERY P'd off 4ft blacksnake and deposited it in the middle of the dining room, for me to admire her wonderful hunting skills. It had somehow gotten into the cellar and she found it. Got it in a head lock and took it out to the back garden. Now, a rattler in the john would be something altogether now. I guess a "look before you sit" is in order.
Colonialgirl
Hawkeye
Our old Tom Cat Mozart brought a snake or two into the house including a 3-4 ft black snake (them things are QUICK); FInally penned him down with a broom and hauled him out side to the back yard and turned him loose.
Since Mozart left this earth for greener pastures, we haven't had any problem with Snakes, mice, rats, and bird feathers.
Surely do miss that old fluffy kittens cat he was a sweetie.
Since Mozart left this earth for greener pastures, we haven't had any problem with Snakes, mice, rats, and bird feathers.
Surely do miss that old fluffy kittens cat he was a sweetie.
ronto
Hunter
I was checking the oil in my car one day and came across a huge King Snake in the engine compartment. Mice were getting into my car and that's probably why he was there just looking for a meal. 
No snakes in the house, but I can identify with things cats bring in.
Just after we bought our house I was fixing the electrical circuits the previous owner had "customized". I was lying down next to the sliding glass door working on an outlet when the cat meowed outside the door. So I slid the doo open and in walks the cat. She promptly drops something and it runs up my pants leg. I'll tell you I never took off pants so fast in my life, not even with a pretty girl present.
Turns out to be a blue belly lizard. Poor thing just laid there after I took it back outside. Checked an hour later and it had crawled off.
Just after we bought our house I was fixing the electrical circuits the previous owner had "customized". I was lying down next to the sliding glass door working on an outlet when the cat meowed outside the door. So I slid the doo open and in walks the cat. She promptly drops something and it runs up my pants leg. I'll tell you I never took off pants so fast in my life, not even with a pretty girl present.
Turns out to be a blue belly lizard. Poor thing just laid there after I took it back outside. Checked an hour later and it had crawled off.
So far only one snake in the house and it was a good non venomous one so I tossed it outside. We do keep some of the CCI .22 shotshells because we sometimes do get copperheads in the yard. A shot or two which isn't too disturbing for our neighbors and no more copperhead problem. We don't want the dogs to try playing with the things.
contender
Ruger Guru
"Contender...I have a small problem."
To which I'd reply;
"Dinner will be served soon!"
Rattlesnake properly cleaned & cooked is quite good!
To which I'd reply;
"Dinner will be served soon!"
Rattlesnake properly cleaned & cooked is quite good!
Have to agree on that. You can eat all of it except the noise and the nose ends.contender said:
exavid
Hunter
When I was a young lad in the Boy Scouts I created quite a stir with a King Snake. I caught him at a Boy Scout camp and decided to take him home with me. Smuggled it on the bus back to Edwards AFB by wrapping it around me under my shirt. It worked fine until we got back to Edwards. While waiting for my folks to pick me up at the shopping center where the bus let us all off I want with some other scouts to buy a soda pop. All was fine until paying for the Coke when the snake stuck his out of my shirt and hissed at the cashier. She kinda freaked out. I was unceremoniously escorted out of the store, unpaid Coke in hand, and told never to come back with a snake. My mother threatened me with a horrible death if I didn't take that nasty thing out on the desert behind our house and turn it loose. Too bad, maybe I could have gotten a candy bar or something with it later on.
contender
Ruger Guru
exavid,,, that's funny. You were just being a normal boy. Nowadays,,, you'd be arrested for something I'm sure.
To digress a bit. Why are so many shaken up by reptiles? When I attended the Boy Scout Jamboree in Valley Forge PA waaaay back in 1950 (yes I AM that old) I acquired a pet horned toad. I tied a small string on him and he crawled all over me. My Mom came to visit, saw the toad, and told me that when I came home to "come alone!". I found the boy from Texas that I have acquired him from and returned him.
mjpchief
Single-Sixer
Got a call from my mom one day and she asked me how to get a snake out of the vacuum cleaner. I asked her how in the world a snake got in her vacuum. She said she found it in the bathroom. My mom wouldn't kill a snake for anything and she was cleaning house when she found it so she tried to heard it outside with the vacuum hose. Of course the snake seeing the house as a place to hide crawled in the end of the hose. I told her to take the hose off the vacuum and take it outside and lay it in the yard. She did so and checked on it later and the snake was gone.
wheelgun1958
Hunter
Obviously plagiarised from Eddie Eagle.
Back in 1974, my brother bought an old farm house at the base of a mountain. He talked to some of the locals and they referred to it as the "snake house". When he began to make some improvements, he noticed hundreds of snake skins under a crawl space in an old addition. WE promptly cleaned them up and sealed off all openings to this area and the basement foundation. That fall, the house was besieged by many snakes around the property. They were trying to find a way to get to their old wintering den. There were rattle snakes, copper heads, blacksnakes, and many other varieties. It got so bad that at night snakes such as copperheads and rattle snakes would be on the porch at the front door exit. We exited using a flash light and a long kill stick to avoid being bitten. It took two years before things became normal. I guess they found another den. This is when I learned that many species of snake will den together.
Rancher Will
Blackhawk
We have never had a snake in the house but we have one from time to time on our porch. One of my ranch dogs, a Rotty, enjoys killing Rattle Snakes. Over the past few years, Misty has brought almost a dozen dead Rattle Snakes that she has killed and proudly left them on our porch for us to see. When she puts the snake on the porch she barks until one of us comes out to see it.
