Protect princess floof!!!!!

She's hating it but she's not in danger.

Good grief. I had just gotten myself on a normal sleep schedule and this is going to fuck it up.

I like snakes up here in Maine, where there's no danger, unless you are a mouse or something smaller

Although you probably could. Good luck to you both!

Rats are worse! When we had a pair of large snakes living in our shed, we had no mice. I wish they would come back!

I once found to my dismay a very very flat and apparently dead snake in my recycling bin, stuck to a label on a plastic bakery box. Wanting to recycle the box, I started pouring water on it to unstick the body. In a little while, the snake (it was a small garter snake, very not scary) began to move, then perk up, so I put water where it could drink, and soon, just a couple of minutes, it was magically plump and round again. Then it started to thrash. I got it free of the glue and outside lickety-split! I was very happy. Two days later I found another similar snake sitting in the basement, just by the bin, calmly looking at me as if asking for a lift. It let me pick it up and carry it out to where its friend was released. Never saw another one down there.

One of my happy snake stories.

Then it can go on its merry way. I had it in a grabber and was heading to the back door when it got away in the kitchen. My bad. I lost my grip when I was opening the door.

Garter snakes are cool. I played with them as a kid. Green snakes are what we call them.

The thought crossed my mind that this one might be looking for water.

It's so dry here. I've been putting out containers with water for the wildlife and birds.

All that talk about machetes…

And I'm so accident-prone that I'm more likely to hurt myself first. 😆

I think it was a suggestion that was intended to provide comfort so I could get to sleep. I'm hoping that will happen soon because I would like to stay on my schedule of getting up at sunrise.

So I'm trying to wind down now.

All you have to do is take the glue trap outside with the creature and pour some vegetable or olive oil onto the trap, and it will loosen the glue. Easy peasy. No murder involved. ❤️

I had put cheap tape on a box in my basement. It peeled off soon after. When I was next in the basement, I unhappily noticed about 10 living crickets stuck to the sticky side. They eat the glue, I think. I cut the tape they were on off the box and brought it upstairs. I wish I had known about olive oil. I got a razor blade and so very gently worked a cricket foot off the tape. As soon as it was free, the stupid thing put it down again. So I cut an index card into little squares, and each time I freed a foot, put a square of card under. I freed all of the crickets, although some had lost a leg. As soon as they were free, they jumped all over. I had 3 cats, so catching the crickets before the cats noticed them was vital. I managed to catch them and put them back in the basement. What happens in the basement stays in the basrment.
This was during Covid, and I had a lot of free time, and a new respect for life
Sorry you have a snake in your house, and I sure hope you have liberated it by now. Why do the darn things know how to get in, but never remember how to get out?

I have heard that they will also eat holes in clothes, but I've never witnessed that myself.

The rascal interloper is still here. In the laundry room. At least it's sequestered. I'm baffled as to how and why it determined that I needed a visit.

Tomorrow, I'll be renewing my search in earnest to end this adventure. I need to get the laundry done.

Thanks for sharing your story, Marthe48. ❤️

But get over it. We've had then in the house twice. The kitty killed the small garter snake 😢 My husband used a leaf rake to get a good-sized black snake out of the door. The snake curled around the tines, my husband would carry it a few feet, kinda low, the snake would uncurl, my husband would turn the rake till the snake would rewind, about 3 times to the door. It dropped off the rake and disappeared into the grass. Glad it ended with the snake going free.

Have a good night!

Get a cat or 2!

I'm in the woods basically. I'm always dealing with wildlife one way or another.

Then explain to me why I is the one on top the kitchen table - screaming like a 15 year old at a Jonas Brothers concert .. ?
(snake not be up here with me .. )

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I am scared of them...my mother was terrified of them. My kid brother, at his bday party thought it would be funny to put a rubber snake around his neck and come up behind mom. I thought she was gonna keel over.

I don't do snakes or bugs, slugs, etc.

I used to faint at the sight of blood but my nurse friends introduced me to desensitized and I'm cured of that inconvenience now.

would usually get up and go to the kitchen or bathroom for a break. He dealt with plenty of poisonous snakes growing up and then after having a family. But he knew his snakes, snd wouldn't harm the beneficial ones.

I hope you can get this one run out.

Maybe find a big feral cat to adopt to live on your porch?

This one is a baby compared to some I've seen in the yard and around the barn.

I had a house cat and a barn cat. Unfortunately, the coyotes have expanded their range into my area in the last few years, and outside cats have to be pretty wily to survive, and the indoor cats are basically lunch if they go out.

I didn't realize that before it was too late.

But it is either the coyotes or the drivers who break all kinds of speed records on the road close to the field in front of the house.

That's where they also meet their maker because drivers use the road as a backroad shortcut to the highway, and nobody slows down for anything.

I really want another cat. I've made friends with a person who runs a kitten rescue. I used to have strays show up every spring kitten season. Not anymore. I hope that changes soon.

Thanks for your reply, Ilsa. ❤️

My grandmother had a garden snake come up from the sewer through the toilet. Thankfully she was not on the John at the time.

nah, not gonna go there.

Color or patterns ?

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I'm putting out glue traps.

The stripes are horizontal.

It’s worth the money.

Stay safe.

Me, I would move...kidding... sorta.

Never in the house!

It will get out .
Snakes will avoid humans generally , it was hunting likely. Do you have mice ?
I’ve had a black snake or two before , hunting for mice .
They can get inside through the smallest openings.
You and your dog are safe if it’s a ratter.

I’d invest in a machete . Put a hook in the wall beside your bed and hang it there . You’ll sleep safer knowing it’s close .

Black snakes and rat snakes are harmless , but will scare the shit out of most everyone for a moment .
But they are more scared of you .



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I don't have mice that I have knowledge of, but anything is possible. If they are here, the sticky traps will catch them too.

once saw a hawk trying to fly holding a decent size snake that wasn't having it. Hawk finally let go and snake landed on neighbor's roof, near a vent. Disappeared down the vent PDQ.

A lot of neighbors (Arizona) have added some pretty serious vent covers on things sticking up from roofs. Always wondered if snakes might be the cause.

Also, does you clothes dryer vent have a rodent proof screen? Snake might get in that way and those dryer vent ducts can get a hole or two.

I think it unlikely you have a dangerous aggressive reptile in your house. Snake-phobia is a ridiculously over-the-top issue for many people. It's right up there with arachnophobia. Take a couple long slow breaths. Don't forget to exhale.

Copperheads, rattlesnakes, pygmy rattlesnakes, black snakes and rat snakes apparently. Those are the ones that I've seen here.

The Eastern indigo snake, an endangered species, also eats some venomous snakes. And you could get your property zoned as a protected area !

They really let me down today.

I'm thinking that I saw a king snake aka black snake here years ago. If I'm not mistaken that was the one that came down the chimney and perched on the mantelpiece. But that was decades ago. Before I inherited the farm and upgraded the chimney.

No snakes getting in there now. I'm going to have to investigate. I'm wondering if through the dryer is a possibility. I don't know. It's really annoying. To think that I have a breech somewhere.

Those things have teeth like ichthyosaurs -- long and needle-like, to hold slippery prey. Long, narrow muzzles, too.

I was once greeted by an unbelievably ugly dog at my office late at night -- which turned out to be an opossum. S/he opened his/her jaws to hiss at me and I decided to definitely keep my distance.

Kind of a surprise, if you're expecting them to be shy and gentle.

I love Pogo! Thanks for sharing that. ❤️

Look it up, it may help you find it, to know what the snake is looking for in your house.

At least it was, the last time I saw it. I have sticky traps out everywhere now. If I have mice/rodents, the sticky traps are supposed to catch them, too.

I keep them around the house anyway for spiders. I had a spider bite that put me in the emergency room. Ever since I stickytrap every room somewhere under something. And change them periodically. Mostly to see what I catch.

It's a daily adventure living on the farm.

Spent summers on my Grandma's farm. Rattle snakes in the out house and always finding snake skins in the unheated back room used for storage in the winter. Never saw mouse dropping or mice though, that I can remember. I think there were enough cats around for that.

Isn't it about the time they lay their eggs?

I had a beautiful gray and white that I raised from a kitten, Sweetie, and they got him.

I really want another one.

The coyotes are really scary. They cruise through in packs of three moving together like one creature. Very eerie.

It's nice to know that someone else has an inkling about what it's like to live on a farm in the woods. Thank you. ❤️

Although in your case I don't think that's possible. You seem terrified.
Good luck and try to keep your cool

Good bless you.

Thankfully my son found day after. I grabbed my dog my laptop and left. I saw one in garage a few weeks ago. Ugh.
Bull snakes I am told:

Beautiful, but yikes!!

The bullsnake is one of the largest/longest snakes of North America and the United States, reaching lengths up to 8 ft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullsnake

I'd definitely be freaking out. New to me. Very scary.

horrified. They look (pattern wise) a bit like rattlesnakes. We live in the SW. this is something I can never get used to tho. Never.

And they predate us by a few hundred thousand years, so they earned my respect. 🤓❤️

a few nights ago, and I thought I was going to wake up the whole neighborhood! Ihad just finished watering our little community garden, and was going back to my apartment. As stepped up on the cement to get to my door, l looked down to see a snake moving into the roses by my door. Not one of the little green ones, well over two feet, nearly an inch in diameter, sort of mottled brown. I was so startled I screamed. It came back out of the roses and slithered across my threshhold. All I could think was, thank Goddess the door was closed! When I finally got inside, I texted our landlord, who tried to assure me it was a harmless garter snake. In the time I have lived here, I had not seen any kind of snake, let alone something I considered big. The next day, another friend texted me a link to different garters in our area. I had no idea there were so many different ones!

I will definitely be checkng the roses carefully before I work on them from now on!

Side note: Everybody in our litttle complex was home. Nobody heard me scream. I know my voice is quiet, didn't know my scream was, too!

Unlikely, but it could be venomous, and worth the visit.

If the country or city won't do it, move. (Later)

They are pest people you can pay.

There may be live snake traps but that takes time. I have used live traps for various critters but not snakes.

Glue traps are so inhumane.

I'll even let you do the catching when it shows up if you want to run the show. 🤔

I'll just watch. 🤓

Please keep your wits about you, and let us know how you're doing.

Thank you for being so kind. ❤️

Cuz otherwise, we're gonna worry! Hope you're okay, and that the snake found its way back into the wild (and OUT of your HOME!!!)!

I will have caught something by morning. The question is, what will it be?

We live in a rural area and boy do we have snakes. I know they are helpful in terms of killing vermin but I still don’t like to see them. We have one who lives in our generator and he has solved our mouse problem but I am still very uncomfortable when I see him. My doggies hate him but they have learned not to attack. Wishing you success in your endeavor because I would have to move out.

But you're right that they provide an important service. I just wanted to get some rest, and I'm not sure that's going to happen anytime soon. At least I'm not in panic mode anymore.

Thanks for your encouragement, Keepthesoulalive. ❤️

Because I didn’t know snakes could climb or swim. I don’t know how people can pick them up because I need therapy whenever I see one.

wrap a hot water bottle or heating pad set to low in a towel and put that in a container you can close quickly. The snake may go inside for the heat and feel safe because it is enclosed.
Then you slap a lid on and are ready to take it to a more appropriate environment.

I should be so lucky. the only damn snakes in this house are rattlers. I now have 3 snake sticks in various locations. so much easier than a gun or shovel, especially indoors.

It sashayed reptile style through the kitchen door before I could get my stick into the laundry room yesterday.

Of course, this was just after I had emptied all of the kitchen cabinets and was preparing to tear the pantry apart.

As far as I know, it is still in the laundry room. I was going to do laundry prior to that, but I worked in the garden instead.

It could be in the dirty clothes. It could be under the washer, dryer, or hot water heater. I have semilost my enthusiasm for searching for the damned thing. Lord knows how long it's been here.

It's a chicken, aka rat snake, about four or five feet long. Actually, it's kind of pretty.

I have put sticky traps everywhere. It's just a matter of time before I step in one myself. I'm either going to catch myself, a bunch of spiders (which is why I have sticky traps in the first place) or a mouse, which apparently the snake is looking for, or the snake which at this point is seeming less and less likely.

So I marked today as a snake in the house day number three until my enthusiasm is renewed and I start tearing the laundry room apart.

Which also has cabinets, and I'm not thrilled about going through, but the stuff in there probably needs shifting and purging, so I don't see any other logical course of action... damned snake making me do housework.

The woman who comes twice a week flatly refused unless I double her fee. I love my money too much for that.

I'm extremely thankful for it not being a rattlesnake. Thankfully, they live at the barn. With the exception of a pygmy rattlesnake that used to live in the backyard by the driveway but I accidentally drove over it and killed it.

Anyway, I know that this is a long, winded answer to a really short question that I appreciate you're asking. I needed a break, and now I'm getting back to work. Thanks for providing a diversion.

Good luck with your rattlesnake catching. I hope you don't have to do it much because snake wrangling is a tricky business. I'm wondering if scorpions are a problem where you are, too. I hope not.

Thanks for your reply, Kali. Take care. ❤️

compared to rattlesnakes. we all expect to get stung at least a couple times per year. only one of us have been snake-bit. my youngest son, when he was 18 months old. I had brought him in the house out of the yard due to the possibility of snakes in August. he was playing with a metal truck on the living room floor while I was doing dishes in the kitchen. he let out a little yelp and I thought he had pinched his finger on the truck. when I went in, I saw a baby rattler on the floor. sure enough there were tiny fang marks on his hand.

that was his first helicopter ride.

but I really prefer to think he is still a teenager, if you don't mind? otherwise he would be older than me

they gave him 20 vials of antivenom.

Many rattlers. I always tried to relocate them by picking up with a rake, putting them in a bucket with a lid, and taking them to the backside of the evil neighbors property to let them go.

Only two we ever had to kill. One kept going after the little blind barn cat, even though she was in a fenced kitty city. The other one killed one of my mini-doxies.

We are also now on a farm that's about half wooded here in KY. Very rarely see a snake here.

I was figuring that I wasn't the only one who had been visited by one.

I just wasn't prepared for the fact that this one was able to climb a wall.

That freaked me way out. It's still in the laundry room, as far as I know. I'm over it at this point.

I do appreciate everyone's support, suggestions, and kindness. I truly thought I was going to have a heart attack or, at the very least, faint.

I had to snap out of that mighty quickly. And create an action plan. Which I got damned close to accomplishing until I lost my grip and it got away.

Next time, I always say. I'm hoping that there won't be one but knowing that there probably will.

I'm betting you have snakes around, and they are keeping their eyes on you.

Thanks for the reply, Bayard. ❤️

A bunch came up.
Here's one:
"Victor Snake-A-Way is a leading brand of EPA-registered, granular snake repellent. It is designed to deter both venomous (like rattlesnakes) and non-venomous (like garter snakes) species. By temporarily disrupting a snake’s sensory receptors, it encourages the animal to safely slither away without causing it any harm."

The first we found in the yard, and the second just wandered inside the house one early spring. We caught them, but decided to set up an open terrarium for them to use. We named them Simon and Theodore. (Simon was smaller at maybe two feet in length.) Theodore was found first when we moved my brother's old car, which I guess he was using as a home. We saw him when we came outside after lunch to continue to move it to the back garage. Our resident snake experts correctly identified it as a common rat snake (also known as a 'black snake') and we brought him up to the front porch where everyone was. It took all of about six minutes before that snake was relaxing on my friend's four-year old boy's shoulders and being treated like a king. He walked around with the snake on his shoulders for a few hours. Everyone (who wanted to) got to hold him and let him creep around their arms. My other friend, the snake person, later took him inside and that is when we came up with the idea to just let him roam.

(I suppose that this is less strange when one considers the whole 'swamp/country boy' thing, but that really was the most chill snake 'from the wild' that I have ever seen. He just did not care that he was being held and carried around by humans. To my knowledge, he never struck at anyone. Simon could be a little shit, but he was also usually very tame and docile and loved to sit on the ceiling fan when it was not running. He couldn't hang on when it was turning. Don't ask me how they found this out, I was not there.)

Of course, we always had to mention to guests that did not know about this that they might run into one or both of them inside. (Even made a sign for the front door.) I well remember hanging out in my room and watching the television and noticing Simon crawling along the wall. There were a few occasions where I would tap three times on the floor or wall beside me to let him know that it was me. He would eventually slither over and visit briefly. Scent is a big thing with them, and once he got used to our smells, he knew who he was with, I am sure of it.)

Dad's house was out in the boonsticks, surrounded by farmlands and swamps. Because we had this relationship with these two snakes, we never had mice, we never had bugs, and their presence was even better than having a dog around. (We had dogs there, but they never ran into the two snakes. I suspect being dogs, they were just so loud and active that our two partners would just disappear when they were in the house. When my friend moved from the farmhouse, he took both of them with him. They moved to Charlotte, and both perished within the next two years. I guess they did not like the big city.)

That little guy/gal may be more of a blessing than a terror for you.

Just sayin'.

That snake is in for a real thrashing! Hope you have it under control by now, LMSP!

I took a break today and went to an astronomy workshop. 🤓✨️

If it's still here, it's not looking for me or Princess Floof.

I haven't caught anything in my sticky traps but spiders, per usual.

I'm baffled. I'm going to tear the laundry room up tomorrow. Got to have clean drawers. Not the dresser kind, either. 🤭

Thanks for checking on me, True.


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