Snake in my living room Update post #39

[icebrat001]

Our kitchen is being re-done. House 225 + years old, earth cellar.
DH & DS in Ireland until 1st week of May.
Dog is a wuss.
I am a bigger wuss.
Floorboards have been moved. I have stuffed gaps with insulation--how long can I hold out???
Winter's passing, sure those slithery suckers are waking...
Spiders will be breeding...
Last week I asked our police chief if he made critter calls
I'll let ya know--I hope not!

Jean

at asking the police chief if he made critter calls.

Our dog is also a wuss, let someone ring the doorbell or even walk to the door and she hears it and the little brat runs to her crate, and won't come out until it's been quiet for a while.

 

[jfulcer]

Are you sure it didn't leave any babies behind?

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Well...in my house my kids would want to make a pet out of it. We would probably put it in something so we could look it up and learn about it, then let it go.
Yep..."Wild Kingdom" here.

 

[ChrisnSteph]

Any updates on the snake? For all we know it could have eaten you. For the love of Pete, please let us know what happened!

 

[JennyMominRI]

Well...in my house my kids would want to make a pet out of it. We would probably put it in something so we could look it up and learn about it, then let it go.
Yep..."Wild Kingdom" here.

This is what we would do.. I'm not really afraid of snakes,spiders etc...We have 6 foot boa constrictor in the house... There was a snake crossing the walkway at the Wilderness Lodge Saturday

 

[crazee4mickey]

OMG....and the only thing you would have seen of me is my butt heading out the door!

 

[Caropooh]

You sure handled it better than I would of. I would of been screaming, crying and running. Snakes are my worst fear. I can't even look at a picture of one without my stomach turning.
We went to see The Shaggy Dog on Sunday. There is a HUGE snake in it. I had no warning and it appeared on the screen. I grabbed my DD12's hand, buried my head in her shoulder and was close to tears. I even had to plug my ears, my anxiety was so bad. DD as very good about and didn't complain that I was squeezing her hand so hard. She just kept whispering to me, 'it's alright Mama.' I was so seriously worked up over it I almost ran out of the theater.

 

[Pixiedust34]

You are brave. I don't think I could have stayed in the house with a broom as my only defense!

We've seen 3 snakes (1 in the front yard, 1 in the back yard, and 1 in the neighbor's yard) since we've lived in our house. We've lived here for 11 years.

Seeing snakes outside is frightening enough. I can't imagine the horrors of seeing one inside the house.

 

[OzFan]

While unpacking from our Disney Trip, I was putting our Resort mugs away in the cabinet over my stove, being on the short side I had to get a chair to reach the cabinet. I reached in and started putting away our mugs when something cold went across my arm. I then saw what it was....a 4 1/2 foot garder snake. I FREAK OUT! I ran out of my house screaming. My poor daughter was sitting on the couch and didn't know what my problem was. "mommy is having post Disney meltdown!" I didn't know what to do, it was HUGE! So I did what any rational women would do... I called 911. Told the dispatcher that I had a snake in my kitchen cabinet and it touched me! Thank GOD the dispatcher was a women to. She sent me an officer who thought he would just go in there and grab it. He explained to me that sometimes "WE tend to see snakes bigger than they are". He went in the kitchen ( I was standing in the living room chair daughter locked in my bedroom with towels under the door) when my brave hero informs me he needs gloves, a stick and a box. OK, I gave him rubber dish gloves, a broom and a wipie container. He then flicks the snake unto the floor, it is slithering all over my kitchen, I'm screaming SHOOT IT! SHOOT IT! He's says "Maam please remain calm, and open the door." I'm like "NO WAY! You're gonna fling it on me!" He tries to explain if he just throws it out it will just come back in, again I tell him to shoot it. He did manage to get it out of the house and take it FAR FAR AWAY from my house. Oh course in the small community where I live news travels fast. Everywhere I went people were always asking me about the snake. It was the running joke for a couple of months. We just recently moved and believe me when I was packing, I looked into everything before I reached in.

 

[WDW LifeLong Fan]

Are you sure it didn't leave any babies behind?

That is not very nice!

 

[Tantor]

While unpacking from our Disney Trip, I was putting our Resort mugs away in the cabinet over my stove, being on the short side I had to get a chair to reach the cabinet. I reached in and started putting away our mugs when something cold went across my arm. I then saw what it was....a 4 1/2 foot garder snake. I FREAK OUT! I ran out of my house screaming. My poor daughter was sitting on the couch and didn't know what my problem was. "mommy is having post Disney meltdown!" I didn't know what to do, it was HUGE! So I did what any rational women would do... I called 911. Told the dispatcher that I had a snake in my kitchen cabinet and it touched me! Thank GOD the dispatcher was a women to. She sent me an officer who thought he would just go in there and grab it. He explained to me that sometimes "WE tend to see snakes bigger than they are". He went in the kitchen ( I was standing in the living room chair daughter locked in my bedroom with towels under the door) when my brave hero informs me he needs gloves, a stick and a box. OK, I gave him rubber dish gloves, a broom and a wipie container. He then flicks the snake unto the floor, it is slithering all over my kitchen, I'm screaming SHOOT IT! SHOOT IT! He's says "Maam please remain calm, and open the door." I'm like "NO WAY! You're gonna fling it on me!" He tries to explain if he just throws it out it will just come back in, again I tell him to shoot it. He did manage to get it out of the house and take it FAR FAR AWAY from my house. Oh course in the small community where I live news travels fast. Everywhere I went people were always asking me about the snake. It was the running joke for a couple of months. We just recently moved and believe me when I was packing, I looked into everything before I reached in.

OMG that is funny

 

[twinmomplus2new]

Back in early October I had a snake in my clothes dryer.

Yes I swear...
Opened the dryer to start folding and it jumped DIRECTLY in my face. I almost peed my pants. My kids have little rubber snakes, and it came at me so fast that I thought they threw one of them, and I yelled Thats NOT funny. Then It started sticking it's tounge out at me, and I flipped. It slithered under the dryer.

I had neighbors, my mother, everyone over here, we couldn't find it for 2 days. I sat with my feet up and I swear didn't sleep. In the end it cost me a whopping $ jeez I can't remember $150 or $250? In any event a critter trapper put down traps and caught him the same day.

6 months later I still carefully take my stuff out of the dryer.....

I feel your pain,,, eeeeewwwww

 

[Ratpack]

OK- Now, I am freaking out over here.
How are these snakes getting in all of these houses???? We just saw a black snake in our neighbor's yard last week. I am across the street waiting for my DH to come home to kill it. For sure, I would be hauling my hinnie to another place if a snake came in my house. I would never be able to live there again. Do they have snakes in Alaska?

 

[Mickey Fliers]

Seriously, where do all of you live that snakes are getting into your houses? I just need to know, SO THAT I NEVER GO THERE!

 

[twinmomplus2new]

Our snake was actually in the closed dryer. The critter guy said they come in the dryer vent, ( ours is vented outside and is close to the ground maybe 6-8 inches up?) He said when it gets cold and they find a warm spot like a dryer vent they climb in to get warm. Then fall down the vent and wind up in the bottom of the dryer. WHere you pull out your lint tray there is a space on the side, once he got in there he slithered up the side and boom landed in the drum with the clothes where he met me.

He aslo put traps where the water tank pipes where, also the cable feeds in the basement/foundation walls. and we replaced the dryer vent with a critter free system that is a closed drum with kind of a tennis ball thing covering the hole. But it is completely sealed , rather than a flap that most dryers have.

He also said the dryer thing is very common..... eeeeekkkkkk

We are in Massachusetts by the way.

 

[OzFan]

The police said that mine got in through the vent! I live in a suburb of Chicago, it still freaks me out when I think about it. I can still feel that cool body touching my arm!
I think my actual word to the 911 dispatch was "I'm not sure if this is an actual emergency, but there is a snake in my cabinet and it touched my arm!" The dispatcher then said "sounds like an emergency to me". I was the butt of the police dept. jokes for a while.

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

Our snake was actually in the closed dryer. The critter guy said they come in the dryer vent, ( ours is vented outside and is close to the ground maybe 6-8 inches up?) He said when it gets cold and they find a warm spot like a dryer vent they climb in to get warm. Then fall down the vent and wind up in the bottom of the dryer. WHere you pull out your lint tray there is a space on the side, once he got in there he slithered up the side and boom landed in the drum with the clothes where he met me.

He aslo put traps where the water tank pipes where, also the cable feeds in the basement/foundation walls. and we replaced the dryer vent with a critter free system that is a closed drum with kind of a tennis ball thing covering the hole. But it is completely sealed , rather than a flap that most dryers have.

He also said the dryer thing is very common..... eeeeekkkkkk

We are in Massachusetts by the way.

well crap that is where I'm from...although I think our dryer vent comes out on the roof...at least I hope so.
I don't go in my backyard from about March to December because I am deathly afraid of snakes. Can't see pictures, can't watch them on tv, can't even go into the pet store when they are in there.

 

[Maleficent13]

Are you sure it didn't leave any babies behind?

You. Are. Evil.

Although, I'd rather have a snake in the house than a mouse. Mice are just so...scurry-ey.

 

[kimmikayb]

You are all freakin me out. I am suppose to clean house today and I think I will just move, leave everything (like one poster suggested) and find a new home. The dryer vent thing???? OMG!!!!!!!!!!! If that's how it got in...then it came all the way through my house to where it was. How will I dry clothes today?????

Ok wise guy who said it had babies....it was probably a very YOUNG snake so I'm looking for its MAMA today!!!

For those of you proud of how I handled it, I cannot tell a lie. I did not handle it well. I put my kids up on the kitchen table, screamed and yelled and ran around like a wild woman with a broom in my hand. I had to get our little dog in her cage because I was sure the snake would bit her. I stood on the chair with the broom near the snake, phone in hand. GOOD thing too because that thing tried to slither further in my house!!! What if there are more in here???????? I couldn't think of anyone to call although I did call my friend whose DH is a conservation officer but they weren't home. I wish I would have thought to call 911!! Had it touched me I would have been in the hospital, seriously. And you mean to tell me they will get in my cupboard????

BTW, my husband hasn't stopped laughing at me. He was in the middle of ordering dinner when I called him (screaming) and I heard him tell the waitress, I have to go home there is a snake in my living room. He pictures this huge 6' 3" round snake curled up on the rug and came home to me standing guard (doesn't he KNOW what strength it took me to even look at this creature???) over this foot and a half bull snake poising to strike my broom. His kids were ASLEEP on the kitchen table and supper was burning in the oven. Yep, he hasn't stopped laughing and telling everyone he can. My brave husband got the snake outside and just about killed ME when I told him....don't kill it just get it out of my house. NOW I hear the snake might find its way back????? At first my DD4 kept telling me to step on it. Just step on it mom! WHAT? Then I'd have to TOUCH it!!

For the poster who was telling the cop to shoot it, shoot it? That is hilarious! You really gave me a great smile. And I totally relate!!! If a snake touches me I will be in the morgue.

The good news? I just found out you can get snake repellent for around your house. We will be heading to the store today.

Maybe I shouldn't clean today and just burn everything. I am a serious snake phobia freak!

Thanks for the support everyone...it makes me feel better I am not alone.

On a real serious note....and to the poster who said they would have studied the snake and released it....I so wish I could be that way because although the story seems funny I could have just passed on my phobia to my youngest two kids. My DS3 keeps asking if the monster is gone. My DD4 keeps trying to go through the house without touching the floor. They saw me dancing and screaming like a crazy woman. I think I need to call Dr. Phil!

 

[cepmom]

You are all freakin me out. I am suppose to clean house today and I think I will just move, leave everything (like one poster suggested) and find a new home. The dryer vent thing???? OMG!!!!!!!!!!! If that's how it got in...then it came all the way through my house to where it was. How will I dry clothes today?????

Ok wise guy who said it had babies....it was probably a very YOUNG snake so I'm looking for its MAMA today!!!

For those of you proud of how I handled it, I cannot tell a lie. I did not handle it well. I put my kids up on the kitchen table, screamed and yelled and ran around like a wild woman with a broom in my hand. I had to get our little dog in her cage because I was sure the snake would bit her. I stood on the chair with the broom near the snake, phone in hand. GOOD thing too because that thing tried to slither further in my house!!! What if there are more in here???????? I couldn't think of anyone to call although I did call my friend whose DH is a conservation officer but they weren't home. I wish I would have thought to call 911!! Had it touched me I would have been in the hospital, seriously. And you mean to tell me they will get in my cupboard????

BTW, my husband hasn't stopped laughing at me. He was in the middle of ordering dinner when I called him (screaming) and I heard him tell the waitress, I have to go home there is a snake in my living room. He pictures this huge 6' 3" round snake curled up on the rug and came home to me standing guard (doesn't he KNOW what strength it took me to even look at this creature???) over this foot and a half bull snake poising to strike my broom. His kids were ASLEEP on the kitchen table and supper was burning in the oven. Yep, he hasn't stopped laughing and telling everyone he can. My brave husband got the snake outside and just about killed ME when I told him....don't kill it just get it out of my house. NOW I hear the snake might find its way back????? At first my DD4 kept telling me to step on it. Just step on it mom! WHAT? Then I'd have to TOUCH it!!

For the poster who was telling the cop to shoot it, shoot it? That is hilarious! You really gave me a great smile. And I totally relate!!! If a snake touches me I will be in the morgue.

The good news? I just found out you can get snake repellent for around your house. We will be heading to the store today.

Maybe I shouldn't clean today and just burn everything. I am a serious snake phobia freak!

Thanks for the support everyone...it makes me feel better I am not alone.

On a real serious note....and to the poster who said they would have studied the snake and released it....I so wish I could be that way because although the story seems funny I could have just passed on my phobia to my youngest two kids. My DS3 keeps asking if the monster is gone. My DD4 keeps trying to go through the house without touching the floor. They saw me dancing and screaming like a crazy woman. I think I need to call Dr. Phil!

OMG I am killing myself laughing!!! I have an extreme fear of snakes too!! We do have them in the yard and they freak me out!! Once I found one near the kids play area and tried to pick it up with a stick an fling it over the fence (I hate my neighbors behind us, so I figured I'd flip it over into their yard) and it attacked the stick!!! I never screamed so loud and ran so fast !! My kids were left behind in the play area, going "Mom...where'd you go??"

DH ran over one with the lawn mower last year too

My BIL is deathly afraid of snakes...SIL has to do the yard work because if he sees one he screams like little girl. They get some super snake repellant on the internet...I guess it works pretty good. I'm going to have to call them today and get me some...the thought of seeing one in my dryer or cupboard is giving me the shakes.