Snake question

[Lisa-Ruff N Tuff Minis]

OMG snakes there is nothing worse to me.. I am more comfortable in the middle of my old gang infested neighborhood(in So Cal) in the middle of the night then I am around any form of snake..

Takes all my control to not call 911 one I see one..

Well we have plenty of feral kitties around THANK GOODNESS and they have killed like 4 snakes this week alone. What is up with that? I thought snakes only come out in the heat and we have been cold

umm perhaps I dont want to know the answer to this but what do they do in the winter????

There was just one on my porch I am sitting here with feet up on the computer table totally freaked out. The cats did move it somewhere but still OMG

Those feral kitties are worth what I spend on cat food for sure

 

[RainSong]

I've had to save two snakes from one of our cats in the last few weeks. Now, see, these weren't poisonus snakes- so they got released out into the field behind us! Maybe they'll get the mice before another one of my mom's cat brings them in, ALIVE!

Snakes aren't all bad. But as recall, they essentially hibernate in the winter. They're most likely looking for safe places to bed down, and the cats are finding them.

Here we had cool weather followed by heat- and we've seen a slew of baby spiders and other baby bugs. I think we ended up with a second hatching! I'm not sure if it applies to the snakes, too- but the ones I found were not large ones by any means. Just good ole garter snakes.

My step-dad hates them. Kills them on site, then complains about the mice. Well hey, you're killing one of the things that eats the mice!

 

[Buckskin gal]

Funny, but those cats sure like to bring those snakes up to the house. Lucky I am not scared of most snakes because more than once this fall I have stepped out my door to find the cat had brought up another water snake. He doesn't eat them but likes to play with them until they are dead..yuk!! He does that with his voles also! We have a large irrigation ditch that flows by on the other side of our road and it sems like since the water was turned off for the winter there have been dead fish and snakes showing up. I don't mind a water snakes because they do keep bad bugs in control. Mary

 

[Lisa-Ruff N Tuff Minis]

well those suckers better hibernate soon cause I am going to end up having a heart attack.

the mice well with the amount of cats we have .. we dont have many anymore but I will take mice over snakes ANYDAY.

I am so afraid one of those things will slither its way into my house.. 'Sigh great first I have been up all week cause I watched a scary ghost show (that new celeb one on VH1) those ghost things just freak me out and now.. the snake fear add that to a pregnant dog who is miserable and huge NO SLEEP FOR ME

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[runamuk]

well those suckers better hibernate soon cause I am going to end up having a heart attack.

the mice well with the amount of cats we have .. we dont have many anymore but I will take mice over snakes ANYDAY.

I am so afraid one of those things will slither its way into my house.. 'Sigh great first I have been up all week cause I watched a scary ghost show (that new celeb one on VH1) those ghost things just freak me out and now.. the snake fear add that to a pregnant dog who is miserable and huge NO SLEEP FOR ME

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Aww Lisa they are just looking for a nice cozy place to hibernate...like under your house in the hay stack, the garage :bgrin :bgrin :bgrin and you probably don't want to know about the time a snake got into a sewer system and came out a toilet do you :new_shocked: oops :bgrin :bgrin :bgrin

now those ghost things that is scary snakes are nothing :bgrin :bgrin :bgrin

I am ducking and running for cover now :bgrin :bgrin :bgrin

 

[Beccy]

My step-dad hates them. Kills them on site, then complains about the mice. Well hey, you're killing one of the things that eats the mice!

Exactly!!

Snakes (we get harmless snakes round here, the only poisonous snake, the Massassauga rattlesnake is very rare, I have never seen one) and bats are two of the most hated and misunderstood creatures, and yet are two of the most beneficial. I can understand some people not liking them, but I hate it when people kill them just because they don't like them. Both amazing creatures, and prolific bug/rodent eaters. I like having both around, and handling snakes is no big deal to me. I do move the garters away from our house though, as I caught a big one in my fish pond eating a very large goldfish once!

 

[minimama]

Supposedly snakes hibernate until temps reach 72 degrees. We have had a couple around here too lately and they would barely move because the temps are off for them. You think they are dead until you pick them up and then they go and decide to move on ya! YIKES!!

 

[nootka]

My Gramma's cat used to bring them in the house, she thought it was the same snake every time, said he (the cat) would come trotting in with the snake dangling on either side of his mouth like a Fu Manchu mustache. She would sweep it into a dustpan and take it outside, said she was not sure who was more tired of the routine, the snake or she.

However, the stakes were raised when Lolly (the cat, yes, it WAS a boy) tucked ol' mr. Snake into the sheets at the foot of Gramma's bed. *LOL* Poor Gramma. I am so glad it was not a mouse, because we might not have had that additional ten years or so w/her as she was scared of mice but not so much of snakes. I think I might have freaked right out about the snake even though I don't LIKE them, I don't really hate them or fear them as the worst thing as long as they're not poison. So guess you should be lucky none of your cats are like the Loll-ster and like to add little goodies to your bed.

Good luck w/the snakes...I do guess they are looking for somewhere warm to sleep overwinter. They eat lots of insects, too, so I just let 'em go and shoo them away into the grass when I see them. Our cats rarely bother w/the snakes, but eat their share of mice, rats.

Liz

 

[Marty]

Leese yes right now they are on the move again. This time trying to find a place to live for winter. It might be in the ground, but most likely, they will choose to live in your nice hay. There's nothing more funner than sticking your hand in the hay to grab a pad and feeling something squirming around on your arm.........hehe

About two years ago I got up from bed in the middle of the night to go to the kitchen for a drink and wondered why Jerry left his belt laying on the kitchen floor. As I bend down to pick it up, it began to hiss...........

Did I ever tell you bout the time one came up my toilet in Florida?

Sweet Dreams Leese!!!!!!!! :saludando: :saludando: :saludando:

 

[Denise]

Your all so mean. :bgrin Now you probably got poor Lisa checking her bed before she gets in it. Don't worry Lisa it will get cold sometime soon. :bgrin Oh yeah dont forget to check your dryer connection, they like to get in there and stay toasty warm too.

 

[anita]

Didn't read everything, later

Yesterday, we killed the 5th, the largest one in the garage.

4 weeks ago we had a fat copperhead in the house near the birds and its a long way to this area.

The rattlers in CA were pets compared to the Texas snakes.

Talk to you soon

Anita

 

[pamk]

Hi. Had to reply to this one....still makes my flesh "crawl"

About two weeks ago (BTW I live in the country) I came home from work on a Sunday night, very, very tired. My husband had put a fresh from the dryer pile of my daughters clothes on the floor near the sofa. I decided she had to fold these clothes in her room and picked up the still warm clothes and layed them by her door - she is 15 and I DO NOT go into her room unless I have too....if you know what I mean...anyway I told her to fold her clothes and she of course griped about it...I put my 4 year old to bed and heard my daughter SCREAMING like I have never heard before...she was saying there was a snake in the clothes I just put by her door...I yelled back that it was just a belt or something and she HAD TO FOLD HER CLOTHES...she kept screaming so I went to her room to make sure she folded the clothes...she was standing on her dresser and pointing to the clothes...she was pale white and having a true panic attack...I called my husband to her room and he kicked the pile of clean, warm clothes and a 10 inch SNAKE slithered out and into her DIRTY ROOM FROM heck!!! My daughter jumped from her dresser, out her bedroom door and ran to the back bedroom, still in hysteria. It took my husband (both he and I are afraid of snakes) one hour to sort through her room and FINALLY find the snake...after it was all said and done it turned out to be a baby COPPERHEAD!!!!! I carried it in the warm clothes!!!! (without a basket, just using my arms) I still get faint thinking about it....Oh and her room did stay clean for a week...go figure...I thought it would be a lesson for her...oh, well....

Pam

Still do not know how the snake got inside our house...I have heard to be sure and check outside vents to make sure they still have their screens in place (i.e. dryer vents, stove vents, etc.)

 

[Lisa-Ruff N Tuff Minis]

OMG YOU GUYS

Here I was hoping for some comforting words like don't worry in a week or so they wont be on the move or they all die over the winter every year something...

Not they can come in my house! or in my DRYER!!! or up my TOILET

HOLY COW I am so freaked out now really this whole snake and bug thing I am so out of my element, give my crime, true riots (along with tanks rolling down your street) heck even with the night stalker out and about I wasnt as scared as I am right now

Guess all I can hope for is winter when they will stay put wherever they are????

Oh my.. trust me we are very girly when it comes to these things.. You don't even want to know about the frog incident.. All I will say is phone calls to friends across the country, screams like Charles manson was in the house and leaping from what little furniture we have(and fighting over it as well) after about 2+hours.. we finally managed to get the frog out of the house

 

[strass]

I was hoping for some comforting words...

How about...They only take small bites and you can always bite them back.

We have mostly copperheads around here, but I found this little feller in the yard striking at my wife's dog earlier this week. Too much rain here has them looking for higher ground. Generally speaking, they don't want anything to do with humans and will try to avoid us.

(Note: I do NOT seriously advise biting snakes. It is not really in my mouth. That is an illusion from the camera angle.

This snake gave me a chance to teach my son how to tell if it was poisonous or not...after it was shortened by 6 inches via 12 gauge.)

 

[Lauralee]

That is a real coral snake. BAD for Jack!!!!

 

[frekles93]

[SIZE=14pt]Well I have a pet one in the house that is my sons. I am planning on getting me a milk snake that looks IDENTICAL to the Coral snake pictures....... I had to say to myself red on black OK jack.....DANG thats a CORAL!!!! LOL. Heres a pic of Teena. She is a Miami Phase Corn Snake.[/SIZE]

All sankes go into hibernation in the winter. I have to make it a little colder where Teena is so she can go. She has already slowed down her eating.

April

 

[strass]

I went out last night to try to find a particularly large snake that's moved into the tall grass along the edges of our pond since last week's downpours. I haven't gotten that one yet, but I did get this little fellar' instead.

Y'all got named the coral pretty easily. Who wants to say what this one is?

 

[anita]

I guess a copperhead?

Anita

 

[Bluerocket]

My sister and her husband used to live in a log cabin in Mississippi - in the winter, many times there would be a snake hanging around in the rafters of their downstairs -- in the room with the woodburning stove. As the snake was not poisonous, her husband would never "get rid of it".

JJ

 

[user 488]

Living in Florida I try to remember this rule...........but being quite honest I have not had a run in with many poisonous snakes. I have not read all the posts so sorry if this is a repeat.

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Red next to Black - is safe for Jack;Red next to Yellow - will kill any fellow