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So... snakes; any advice?
Topic Started: Apr 20 2008, 11:17 AM (283 Views)
Jane D'Oh
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I found a snake skin last summer, so I knew we had some around here. Today I saw one. It had yellow and black stripes, so I'm assuming it was some kind of a garter snake.

What should I do - concerning the kids & pets?

Thanks.
Pfft.
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dolmansaxlil
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My suggestion is to start working on your response to, "Can we keep it mum? Can we? Can we? plEEEEEEse?!"
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Jane D'Oh
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:lol:

Well that's not gonna be a hard decision... At least inside the house.

What if it takes up permanent residence in the compost?
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George K
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Nothing. They're harmless and they eat pesky rodents. I wish I could convince Mrs. George of that. She hates garter snakes.

If you catch one, you'll be amazed at how bad they smell.

Or else call Sam:

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Piano*Dad
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Yeah, some species have glands that make them smell nasty if you catch them. I've caught a few grass snakes that qualify.

Oh, and those little green things can be really dangerous I hear ......




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You Always Thought Green Snakes Were OK?

Green Garden Grass Snakes can be dangerous, Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes.

A couple in Sweetwater, Texas had a lot of potted plants, and during a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze. It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa. She let out a very loud scream.

The husband who was taking a shower ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it.

About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the leg. He hought the snake had bitten him and he fainted. His wife thought he had heart attack, so she called an ambulance. The attendants rushed in and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out. About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and why he is in the hospital.

The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor man. He volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief. But in relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa, and the neighbor man, seeing her laying there passed out tried to use CPR to revive her.

The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches. An ambulance was again called and it was determined that the injury required hospitalization.

The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed he had been bitten by the snake. She went to the kitchen, brought back a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.

By now the police had arrived. They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the two women tried to explain how it all happened over a little green snake. They called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.

Just then the little snake crawled out from under the couch. One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table that was on one side of the sofa. The table fell over and the lamp on it shattered and as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes.

The other policeman tried to beat out the flames and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog, who startled, jumped up and raced out into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car and set it on fire.

Meanwhile the burning drapes had spread to the walls and the entire house was blazing. Neighbors had called the fire department and the arriving fire-truck had started raising his ladder as they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and put out the electricity and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area.

TIME PASSED

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Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was re-built, the police acquired a new car, and all was right with their world.

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About a year later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced cold snap for that night. The husband asked his wife if she thought they should bring in their plants for the night.

She shot him. 
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dolmansaxlil
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Somehow, "There's mother****ing SNAKES in the mother****ing COMPOST" doesn't have the same ring to it.
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DivaDeb
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Whatever you do, don't call your local extension office and ask them what to do about it unless you enjoy being treated like a two year old and having your concerns poo-pooed. That's the mistake I made after finding a seething, roiling ball of copulating snakes in my front yard when Will was about 2. Looked just like this:

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Here's my bottom line about snakes. I hate them. DETEST them. I don't give a rat's a$$ whether they're harmless or not. They dig holes in the lawn, they hold open air orgies on the first warm days of spring, they're totally nasty to run over with the lawn-mower, and they'll slither over your feet when you're out watering or photographing your flowers.

They may eat mice, but they make more snakes every chance they get. I have cats, so I'd rather have mice than snakes. My cats take care of mice, so I don't need no steenkin snakes.
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Jane D'Oh
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:lol: Deb. They're just another variant on bugs. Well I know that they're not really. But it's the same kind of principle. As long as I don't have to touch it.

Will they bite the kids if they try picking them up?

What if the cat stalks it?
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sue
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Jane D'Oh
Apr 20 2008, 12:21 PM
:lol:

Well that's not gonna be a hard decision... At least inside the house.


I used to have a cat that brought snakes in the house. :ph43r:

I'm not crazy about running across one when I'm outside, barefoot, but they are harmless.
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dolmansaxlil
Apr 20 2008, 02:19 PM
My suggestion is to start working on your response to, "Can we keep it mum? Can we? Can we? plEEEEEEse?!"

My kids keep the snake SKINS. If they saw an actual snake, it wouldn't last five seconds before getting snatched.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Optimistic
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Deb, I'm sorry, I couldn't read your post because :hair: :hair: :hair:

The ground around me slowly becoming engulfed in snakes was always my most recurring and horrible nightmare.
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DivaDeb
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The garter snakes won't bite the kids and our cats play with them. I let them play for a while, then I finish em off. No survivors to tell the sordid story.
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DivaDeb
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Apr 20 2008, 03:02 PM
Deb, I'm sorry, I couldn't read your post because :hair: :hair: :hair:

The ground around me slowly becoming engulfed in snakes was always my most recurring and horrible nightmare.

sorry Opti...googling 'snake orgy' which is how I've always described that particularly unsavory event in our past, that pic popped up on the first page of images, and it's *exactly* what I saw. Same snakes, same party. Perverts

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Axtremus
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DivaDeb
Apr 20 2008, 04:03 PM
The garter snakes won't bite the kids and our cats play with them. I let them play for a while, then I finish em off. No survivors to tell the sordid story.

How do you "finish em off"?
Just curious. :unsure:
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George K
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Apr 20 2008, 03:19 PM
DivaDeb
Apr 20 2008, 04:03 PM
The garter snakes won't bite the kids and our cats play with them.  I let them play for a while, then I finish em off.  No survivors to tell the sordid story.

How do you "finish em off"?
Just curious. :unsure:

Mrs. George wants to know too. :sword:
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DivaDeb
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Hoe hoe hoe

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Axtremus
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DivaDeb
Apr 20 2008, 04:25 PM
:lol:

Hoe hoe hoe

Then you make compost out of the remains or bury the remains in the ground as fertilizer? Or dump in trash? Any local Chinese restaurant collecting the remains and make them into exotic delicacies? :unsure:
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DivaDeb
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I leave the remains in plain sight as a warning to others who might not take me seriously

(maniacal laughter)
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Optimistic
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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yep..

they are smelly and the do open air copulate en masse

how rude
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Mikhailoh
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Leave it be. We had a nice big black rat snake in the innards of our house,. We'd see the skin every now and then. But we had not a single rodent. Now Mr. Wriggles is evidently gone and we have mice.
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