Gary Fowler
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- Bismarck Arkansas
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- 2009 Kubota RTV 900, 2009 Kubota B26 TLB & 2010 model LS P7010
My brother in law came over yesterday(he lives just across the bass pond from me) and said "come see what I found in my back bedroom". I went outside and in the back of his JD Gator he had some 5 gallon buckets. Inside one was about a 2 foot long water moccasin. Last week we had some summer like days and he has a habit of leaving his patio door open on nice days so the dogs can come and go as they please plus freshen the air inside. Well the last two days have been in the high 30's at night. He was cleaning up a bit around the house yesterday as it was a bit chilly outside to be working and he noticed what looked like a big rubber snake (his eyesight is not that great but he wont wear his glasses). He said just to be on the safe side though he poked at it with a broom handle and it struck at it. Well luckily for him and everything else in the house, the snake had crawled up on a large glue trap that his wife had put under the bed and became stuck so he couldn't crawl away but his head was still free to move. That snake had came in the patio door, crawled thru the kitchen/dining/ living room open area, down an T shaped hall way and into a back bedroom. I guess he was lucky that the snake took a right down that hall way to the spare bedrooms rather than a left to the master bedroom.
His patio porch is maybe 40 feet from the waters edge while mine is about 200 feet. I have never found a snake anywhere around my house, while he has had several encounters with them. Last year they killed one that had came into the garage and coiled up by the door to the house. Luckily that they came in from the roll up door and saw him rather than coming from the house man-door as they would likely have stepped on it from that direction. Several times the dogs have bayed a snake coming up from the pond while still out in the grass.
Anyone know of a good snake repellant and please don't say mothballs, BTDT and it doesn't work.
His patio porch is maybe 40 feet from the waters edge while mine is about 200 feet. I have never found a snake anywhere around my house, while he has had several encounters with them. Last year they killed one that had came into the garage and coiled up by the door to the house. Luckily that they came in from the roll up door and saw him rather than coming from the house man-door as they would likely have stepped on it from that direction. Several times the dogs have bayed a snake coming up from the pond while still out in the grass.
Anyone know of a good snake repellant and please don't say mothballs, BTDT and it doesn't work.