OT: How do you get rid of snakes?

[Accentuate+]

"We have a small building they go in by themselfs each night at dusk and we let them out each day. When they are young they needed to be kept in the building for 6 weeks and that trained them to return each night"


When I first started reading this I thought you were talking about snakes. I also thought you belonged in an asylum.

Had a good laugh at myself when I realized what you were really talking about.

 

[Sethsmom]

"We have a small building they go in by themselfs each night at dusk and we let them out each day. When they are young they needed to be kept in the building for 6 weeks and that trained them to return each night"


When I first started reading this I thought you were talking about snakes. I also thought you belonged in an asylum.

Had a good laugh at myself when I realized what you were really talking about.

Ditto

 

[tinatark]

I'm in the feet up, stomach in knots just reading this category!

We saw a snake in our pond today - . My DH and DS's used to get in there every once in awhile, to clean it out - water flows from one part out - not anymore!

This makes the second one we've seen here. I think I will be getting some of that snake away stuff.

That said, I grew up in a very rural area of North Florida - I can remember rattlesnakes 4 or 5 feet long being killed on our property every summer. I can still see the lines they made crossing the road before it was paved.

 

[angwill]

I grew up with 4 brothers who loved snakes and brought them home all the time. I hated them and when one would get loose in the house the boys knew it was fair game for me and I would kill them. One day while doing laundry there was a water moccasin under the clothes that I cut the head off of. Yes, my brothers were dense enough to bring home a water moccasin that in turn had babies in the house.

Anyway, one day one of their friends were over and he was showing off taking one of the baby gardner snakes and hanging it over his open mouth daring anyone to pay him $20 to swallow it. Guess what happened next; he accidentally lost hold of it and down the hatch it went. He was so scared he actually cried. He thought he would die from swallowing it. Nothing happned and poison control told him not to worry about it.

There must be something with the weather some have snakes and we have had a ton of ticks this year. We have never ever had any ticks in our yard and this year our dog was infested with them. I have had several get on me and my son and husband have had them on them. We now check over ourselves and the dog when we come in the house from the yard and if we work in the yard we change clothes and check our bodies before we sit down anywhere inside. I finally got to the point where I started killing and saving them in a plastic baggie in case anyone gets sick from one we can have the tick checked for whatever it might be carrying.

Funny that the guinea hen was mentioned here when I have been trying to convince my husband that we need a couple this year with all the ticks we have. I just have to find a place near us that has them for sale.

 

[kaysmommie]

We had one this year in our backyard. It must have feel out of a tree because it was inside our privacy fence. Dh was mowing and noticed it.. he swears it must have been a king snake or something similar. He went and got the shovel.... you can either sling them away-- or chop their heads off.. personally i dont mind killing them. They might serve a purpose but I dont need them to uphold it in my yard! GL with them! I say kill every single one you find!

Thanks, now I'm not going to be able to relax in my yard by the pool since you live about 20 minutes or so from me. I hate snakes and am scared to death of them. Also I have a little tiny 7 lb SHih Tzu and I usually let her out alone in the backyard.

The PP about the blake snake coming out from behind the stove is too scary. I would have moved out

 

[kaysmommie]

I'm in the feet up, stomach in knots just reading this category!

We saw a snake in our pond today - . My DH and DS's used to get in there every once in awhile, to clean it out - water flows from one part out - not anymore!

This makes the second one we've seen here. I think I will be getting some of that snake away stuff.

That said, I grew up in a very rural area of North Florida - I can remember rattlesnakes 4 or 5 feet long being killed on our property every summer. I can still see the lines they made crossing the road before it was paved.

Please tell me your not in east Tennessee . I think the nice cold weather back in NJ is sounding not so bad about now and then I could go to the beach where there are no snakes.

 

[jocotter]

We have some friends with a ranch near Austin and they keep inviting us for the weekend. However, recently they showed me a photo of a snake in the toilet at the ranch. They said it crawled up from the septic tank, since they only go to the ranch about once a month and the toilet isn't in constant use. I told my husband that there is no way I'm going to their ranch for a weekend now. I even have to turn on the lights in the middle of the night and check our toilet if I have to go in the night. I'm totally paranoid that a snake will be in there.

 

[threecrazykids]

You guys jinxed me. Last night we were getting ready to come in the house and my daughter went to the end of the driveway to get her bike...comes running back about unable to breathe because a snake scared the heck outta her! It was getting pretty dark but I could see it slithering along the edge of the driveway.

My husband (who is NOT afraid of snakes) was all "oooh, cool"...while I'm screaming like a banchee "KILL IT!!! KILL IT!!!! KILL IT NOW!!!!"

Pretty much had everyone in the neighborhood come running out of their houses wondering what the heck was going on with my screaming.

I don't care if they "help keep mice away" or "are more scared of me than I am of him"...that's a crock because he was all reared up striking at my daughters bike and my husband and the snake did NOT look scared to me...I was the one running the other way.

Because my husband wouldn't kill it I made him drive about 2 miles down the road to put it in a corn field. If it comes back? DEAD. There's my warning to it.

 

[TenThousandVolts]

recently they showed me a photo of a snake in the toilet at the ranch. They said it crawled up from the septic tank,

Why do I torture myself by continuing to read this thread. I will never get this image out of my head- and I have to go to the bathroom now

PS: you are not even safe is the happiest place on earth
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=19217287&posted=1#post19217287

 

[MomofKatie]

Well, after reading all 5 pages of the thread, I feel like the bravest person around !! I am just not afraid of snakes. In any way. I have seen a few in the yard, and my usual reaction is to be interested. I like to see what they are up to. I figure they are too busy living their little snake-y lives to bother with me- plus, they eat mice ans other pests.

We even have copperheads near our backyard- lots of ponds and streams in our neighborhood- and they don't phase me. I just make sure to "walk loudly" and keep my eyes open when I'm in the yard. I also tell DD to watch out for snakes, and to LEAVE THEM ALONE if she sees one. She isn't scared, either (but she is deathly afraid of spiders).