In house exterminator

[Zxyrthe]

We pulled into the garage yesterday and saw this dangling over the door as we left. Now honestly, if a black snake dropped out of the rafters and landed on me I would probably shriek like a little girl and pee my pants a little. However, I really like the idea that it's keeping the squirrels and mice out of the garage.

I'll just look before I reach into dark places now.

 

[EddieWalker]

I hate snakes and if I found something like that, I don't know if I could sleep at night. Glad to hear that you're ok with it, I got the heebie jeebie's just looking at the picture!!!!

Eddie

 

[mbrule]

Just seeing the skin in my garage would make me scream like a girl!!

 

[brin]

My shop on the farm, I always found snake skins and only once in all the years have I actually seen a snake...they are more afraid of us than we realize...The only thing that ever attacked me a caused me immense pain in my shop was a scorpion...that hurt bad for hours on the bridge of my foot.

 

[jinman]

To my knowledge, there is no evidence of a poisonous snake ever being in somebody's attic. Water moccasins will climb trees around ponds/streams to sun themselves, but unless you have a houseboat, I don't think you have to worry. I don't believe rattlers nor copperheads ever climb trees. They stay on the ground or under rocks. Coral snakes are extremely rare and are more likely to crawl into your sleeping bag than appear in your house.

 

[Mousefield]

The best place for a snake is outside. :laughing:

 

[JamesHW]

True story,

Once on a Saturday I took the car to get a tune up. We had just gotten married and were renting a cabin in the woods on a nice old ladies estate overlooking the Potomac River.

10 minutes after getting to the tuneup place, my wife calls. Turns our she had been on the bed, which was then just a couple of futon mattresses on the floor, with the pillows propped up against the baseboard heating which ran along the wall. We had just adopted two cats, a semi-feral mother and kitten who were just beginning to realize we were not bad guys and would tentaively come onto the bed with us if we didn't make any quick movements.

So my wife is sitting in bed reading and trying to coax the cats to join her, but they both sat at end of the bed giving her strange looks. She got tired of this and decided to do some cleaning and was vacuuming around the bed and when she picked up a pillow and found...an six foot black snake curled up inches from where her head had been a minutes before.

So after she climbed down from the ceiling she gathered up the kitties and fled into the next room and called me.

Of course the car had already had all the ignition wires pulled, but I got a ride from a snake-phobic mechanic back to out place and promptly deposited said snake back out into the garden.