harveyc

I'm laughing trying to picture someone "releasing" a snake stuck to those sticky traps on that plywood! I've ripped limbs off of rodents trying to get them off and can only imagine trying to get a snake off, especially if it's rattling it's tale! I like my shotgun idea better.

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Simply Bananas

The juvenile snake is just looking for a warm place to spend the winter. Small snakes can be swept into a shovel and deposited outside.

While coral snakes have a dangerous toxin in the venom, they as not nearly as dangerous as the vipers. They should not be handled nor killed.

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Lorax, have you encountered many Coral snakes?

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We have tons of those same rat snakes at our place. People here call them either rat snakes or cow snakes and we have an old farm house on the property that my daughter & family live in (we used to live in it) that also houses these snakes. You do have to be careful grabbing them though. One squeezed the dickens out of my husband's arm when we first moved in. We thought that we'd take them down the road and deposit them in a field but then found out that snakes will travel long distances to go back 'home'. I didn't like living with them either. We found one coiled up sleeping in a kitchen cupboard once. Luckily my daughter would rather have snakes than mice so I guess all is good. They find snake skins afew times a year either in the basment or on the stairs going up to the attic.

Good luck as we have searched and searched for snake repellent methods in the past and nothing worked. The snakes have won and we just had to get used to it!

Deb

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I guess I am one lucky lady, eh? This one is a garden or garter snake right? If you haven't figured this out yet, I am deathly afraid of snakes. This one flicked his tail at me and seemed to pose for pictures. At least this one isn't in my bedroom!!!





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saltydad

Pretty little fellow.

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LilRaverBoi

Looks like a red strip ribbon snake to me (I'm no snake expert, I looked up garter snake to make sure I was spelling it correctly and found a pic LOL).
Thamnophis proximus rubrilineatus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Very cool. Snakes outside are much better than in your bedroom, huh? Not everyone likes snakes, but I'd MUCH rather have snakes than rats/mice!

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Abnshrek

That's what I was thinkin' when I saw that lil' feller :^) Nice Color too.
I'm glad it was outside. I don't know what I'd do if I had one inside.. I guess I'd have to patch real big hole after I shot it :^) ( I'm not kidding either)

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Patty in Wisc

Jana, did you ever the snake out of your bedroom & how? I would freak if I saw a snake in my house!

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Jananas Bananas

Well I guess here is the sequel. Yeah, here I am again in this thread. Why did this not happen before my husband went to Iraq? Hmmmmm?????? This is the newest snake found in the house. This is as much as I ever saw of it. I can't identify it but maybe some of you that are more familiar with them can. I just pray it is not a poisonous one. As some of you know I am terrified of snakes, and I certainly do not want to share my home with them. Oh. and I used the zoom lens on the camera, I was not that close to it's face!!!!!





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Dean W.

It's hard to tell at that angle. Did it get put outside yet?

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They must like you they keep coming back.

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sunfish

Is that the base board or crown moulding ?

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Thanks Greg!!!! I'd rather be liked by............my chickens............or my bananas............or Ramen noodles............anything but SNAKES!!!!!!

That is the crown moulding Tony! Shudder!

No Dean, it is not outside yet. Who knows where it is right now. It is not at that spot right now, I am guessing the attic. ~J

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Jack Daw

Well, JaNan, maybe chickens are pleasant to look at, but from what I can tell, snakes have much tastier flesh.

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Abnshrek

Well billy the exterminator said if the eyes are round its not poisonous. If they look like cats eyes you best be afraid and stay clear.

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You need a pet Mongoose

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LilRaverBoi

Black runner? Kinda hard to tell with that limited of a view.

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Migael I THINK the pupils are round but not totally sure. It creeps me out just to look at the pictures. But I enlarged it and that is what they appear to be.

Jack I have really been nice, at least I think, not wanting to harm them. But I am losing my patience with them. Actually, I always heard they "taste like chicken"! HA! HA! And this is what I want to do

Doc I don't know, you are the one that identified the last one for me.

Tony, I DO need a pet mongoose!!! The small one would work for me - Sounds like it would eat my chickens though and I have enough trouble with hawks and the chickens as it is. I did read about that snake trap in your link. I just don't think I am brave enough to pour cooking oil over it to let it go. I think Lowe's or Home Depot sells some sort of snake repellent but I just don't think that would work INSIDE my house from what I have read. It is external and on the ground.

Shoot for all I know it could be the one that was in the bedroom last fall. It may have lived in my walls and attic all this time. Do they do that? I never did catch that one and get rid of it.

What about moth balls? Seems like I heard or read that moth balls repels snakes. Would those fumes be harmful to me and my cats inside the house? I know I am grasping at straws.

~J

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sunfish

Looks like it's a Texas Rat Snake

Austin Area Snake Identification: Snakes With Blotches