snake!

[shannonw]

If you can't live with Racoons, Snakes, Gators, Opossums, Squirrels and Mosquitos: Don't Move to Florida!



Saw a snake and a racoon last night while I was watering the lawn.

Dont forget fruit rats as big as a cat if you have fruit tree's near by.

One year we had an over abundance of black racer snakes (harmless...more scared of you than anything)...but certain time of the year they are everywhere.

I kid you not. I had a neighbor who woke up with 2 in his bed! Harmless or not if that happened at my place my wife would have had the place packed up before noon lol

One got in my house, wife freaked but i got him out.

 

[softailgarage]

If you can't live with Racoons, Snakes, Gators, Opossums, Squirrels and Mosquitos: Don't Move to Florida!



Saw a snake and a racoon last night while I was watering the lawn.

Yeah, been there...you can keep that ****, along with the bugs as big as a fist. Gators creep me out the most

 

[AV tinker er]

I am betting it is just a harmless snake and he is there cleaning up your rodent problem. I would have no problems with letting him have run of the place, as long as he stays mostly hidden. The first time I reach into a cabinet for a tool and he is in there it is time for him to be relocated.

I like having King snakes around, they eat the other ones.

 

[BUGTHUG]

I kid you not. I had a neighbor who woke up with 2 in his bed! Harmless or not if that happened at my place my wife would have had the place packed up before noon lol

I woke up with a snake on more than one ocassion, divorced her 17 years later. Not much of a charmer

 

[juiced10]

yep I am with you on that. find it, kill it, with fire if you have too.

Careful with fire http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/woman-burns-down-home-set_n_2933888.html

 

[82_454_shorty]

How about organizing a Wacking Day?

 

[saceone]

^^best post so far.

Where are the pictures?

I would scream like a little girl!! Can't stand snakes on TV.. Can't imagine having one in my man cave

 

[Falcon67]

They are all copper-mouth water rattlers. Burn down the building.

 

[Voi]

What's the difference?

There has been a shift in the scientific community towards using the term venomous to describe animals that inject a toxin via a bite or sting. So animals like a rattlesnake or a wasp would be venomous.

Poisonous would describe an animal that would have toxic flesh when bitten or eaten. Like when a toad secretes poison from glands when bitten, which often causes a predator to spit them out.

In reality these classifications aren't quite so straight forwards but I won't get into that here.

 

[tomshep]

you could try smacking it with your purse.

LMAO. Tom

 

[ronr80]

OK after reading this I'm glad I live in Ontario, the scariest thing in my garage was a small fox, we looked at each other and he left. I don't mind snakes but prefer a fox.Ron

 

[jshultz78]

Couple sticks of dynamite. Problem solved.

 

[Jure]

buy some sulfur powder and throw it around your garage.

 

[Rockcam]

you could try smacking it with your purse.

This post made my morning.

 

[GRX]

you could try smacking it with your purse.

This post made my morning.

Agreed. That made me

Having experienced both in my homes, snakes are much preferable over mice. And remember, snakes love to eat mice. People often have both.

 

[DoyleDee]

snakes don't bother me... the venomous ones do though, and they get removed- the other ones just get relocated.
If you have snakes, you have a food source for them....
I have two cornsnakes in my house in a 100gal tank, one of them (the female) will strike and bite, the male can be handled with no issues.
I once went into a store with a burmese python around my neck....people freaked.

 

[blackz26]

^^^ typical woman!

 

[f150skidoo]

OK after reading this I'm glad I live in Ontario, the scariest thing in my garage was a small fox, we looked at each other and he left. I don't mind snakes but prefer a fox.Ron

X2 granted we do have massasauga rattle snakes on the Bruce peninsula.

 

[Bob C]

Not me. The only good snake is a dead snake. Keep the 12 guage with #7 shot and glock loaded with snake shot just for them. I dont think about it, I just shoot now and ask questions later!

 

[onewaydave]

Poisonous ones are no problem as long as you or your dog don't eat them, venomous ones are the ones to steer clear of!

So very not so! West Texas rattle snakes are fine eating and plentiful.

Dave.

 

[onewaydave]

Herb, I seriously considered having your posts banned because of the distracting quality of them. I mean I looked through the entire thread about 6 times before I could find the post above I wanted to reply to. Six times! Took me about 30 minutes. I kept stopping at your posts.

Then I came to my senses. Post all you want, buddy.

Dave.

 

[onewaydave]

Oh yeah, the original post.

I have a resident something or other in the shop. I assume not venomous, but I haven't had a good enough look to identify exactly what he is. I assume he as I haven't seen any kiddos and he has been around for several years.

Oh yeah, I left a peanut butter bucket trap out for 2 weeks and didn't get one single mouse. I'm not convinced they work, as well as the snake.

The closest look I had was when reaching for a fresh battery for the drill. As I pulled it out of the charger, I saw him slither off the shelf and under a pile of wood. He had been wrapped around the charger for the warmth. I didn't even squeal. Or drop my purse. But then, I don't have a purse.

Dave, thinking this is the best thread I've seen in a long time, even without pictures.

 

[SCTony]

World's largest snake found dead - link

 

[M3rl3n]

^^^ LMAO!!! I expected it, but still jumped.

 

[Outlawmws]

Poisonous ones are no problem as long as you or your dog don't eat them, venomous ones are the ones to steer clear of!

I've eaten rattlesnake several times. The meat is NOT poisonous...

 

[pedalwrench]

you could try smacking it with your purse.

made my day - thanks for the laugh!!!

 

[Norcal]

Had gopher snakes around but the cats killed them, wish they had not.

 

[kevin47]

Catch it and have pictures taken with a hottie...

Hottie with snake...you should feel a little more than embarrassed by now...Maybe you could borrow her purse...And chase the poor thing around the garage , unltil you get bit...

 

[Rickstir]

I have 80 acres. The house and outbuildings sit on about 3 of them. There is an ironclad rule. Any snake inside the compound is a dead snake. Outside the compound they are free to live out their lives. I have 5 cats that keep the rodent problem in hand. Over the last 15 years there have been a few violators of the rule and they paid for it, at least the ones I can take to trial.

 

[PKAero]

buy some sulfur powder and throw it around your garage.

Why not just do a complete exorcism?

 

[btamkel]

i wonder if moth balls would work anybody tried them before.

 

[domain]

Herb, I seriously considered having your posts banned because of the distracting quality of them. I mean I looked through the entire thread about 6 times before I could find the post above I wanted to reply to. Six times! Took me about 30 minutes. I kept stopping at your posts.

Then I came to my senses. Post all you want, buddy.

Dave.

AGREED.

 

[Bluepine]

i wonder if moth balls would work anybody tried them before.

Yes, moth balls work very good. Good luck getting rid of the smell of the moth balls, but its lots better than having a snake present.

 

[bigbubba]

They are all copper-mouth water rattlers. Burn down the building.

Copper-mouth water rattlers are so mean that if you check into a hotel to get away from them they will check into the room beside you and bite you when you come out for the free breakfast in the morning!

 

[bigbubba]

i wonder if moth balls would work anybody tried them before.

Yes they work,We take a bag with us camping. Just toss a few out around the campsite and the snakes will stay away!

 

[BFBOB]

Around here (mid Missouri) it's amusing when someone is terrified of a "GREEAAAAATT ********* snake!" That's a black rat snake, harmless and great eaters of rats (what a shock) and other pests. We've got them a bit over 7' long- Hard to measure a living snake, but I've got the complete, intact shed skins to prove it.
The irony is that it's the little black snakes you need to be wary of. A black snake around 2 1/2 ' long might be a cottonmouth, aka water moccasin, the only deadly snake in Missouri. Yup, we've got venomous copperheads and timber rattlers, but no deaths caused by them. I kill any copperheads I find, never seen a rattler or cottonmouth. As others have said, a .410 does the trick with little or no collateral damage.

 

[Tarheelgarage]

my wife gets the snake quite often and seems to enjoy it....

 

[barlow]

After having my *** blistered for killing a black snake in the barn when I was a kid, I shy away from killing any snake unless its poisonous. With that being said however, one point to consider is if you have machinery, lathes, mills or the like the last thing I want to do is die getting wound up in tooling or a lathe chuck from being startled by a snake poking his head out between the ways.

 

[Glenn M.]

I've eaten rattlesnake several times. The meat is NOT poisonous...

Tastes like chikken, huh??

 

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