Snake in my living room Update post #39

[LukenDC]

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[cepmom]

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you are truly an evil person

 

[donaldbuzz&minnie]

My husband was out of town when I went into the garage. The hose was curled up and I went to move it. Turns out it wasn't a hose. I ran in the house and called my neighbor, who got rid of it somehow. I've never asked how.

Another time we had a snake in our basement. Fortunately my husband was home that time. That's why God made men.

 

[mickeyboat]

You guys are cracking me up.

The task of getting rid of a snake would have to be mine. DH is deathly afraid of snakes, he can't even stand to look at them at the pet store. When he was a kid he was sitting on a stone wall at his cousin's house, and one slithered across his lap.

We have had bats in our house before, and that is frightening, let me tell you. I hide under a blanket, and DH takes care of them.

Denea

 

[binny]

snakes ok
BATS?????


I worked in a REALLY old building one time and I went to close up and this bat came out of NOWHERE!!! And came RIGHT at my head! omgosh!!!!


Talk about screaming like a little girl!

 

[ahutton]

Once, about a month after we moved to Austin, DH got really, really sick. He spent a day in Urgent Care getting IV fluids and drugs. Went home and was supposed to sleep. He woke up sick again, so I had to go to the pharmacy at 1 a.m. to fill a prescription that the doctor said I wouldn't need until morning. I came home and there was a snake on my doormat. I seriously debated if my DH really needed the drugs more than I needed to cross its path. It was small, and I'm sure harmless. But it took me a long time to get the courage to open the door and cross over it, and make sure it didn't follow me in.

If I found one in my house now I'm pretty sure I would sell the house immediately. I really, truly am irrationally fearful of snakes.

 

[cepmom]

snakes ok
BATS?????


I worked in a REALLY old building one time and I went to close up and this bat came out of NOWHERE!!! And came RIGHT at my head! omgosh!!!!


Talk about screaming like a little girl!

yikes!!
When I was in high school, my friend lived in an old house...we would sometimes see bats flying in the sky at night over her house, not really thinking much of it at the time. One night, I was spending the night over there and all of a sudden we both see *something* fly across the room out of the corners of our eyes. We both thought it must be a small bird, so we run and tell her mom and uncle to come out and see the bird flying around the house.
As you might guess, it wasn't a bird, but a BAT we freaked out, screaming and hiding from the thing. Her uncle, being the only man in the house, was nominated to get it out of the house, pronto! I grabbed a motorcycle helmut and put it on so it wouldn't get stuck in my hair and he grabbed a fishing net to catch the thing. I don't remember exactly how he captured it but it was the freakiest night of my life!!! We laugh about it now, but it wasn't to funny then!

 

[kilee]

I am right there w/ you on the irrational snake fears. I cannot and do not go into the reptile house at the zoo. I do not go into petstores that sell snakes. I did once, not knowing, seen the cages about 6 feet away and started hypervenillating. It created this whole scene, dh was super embarassed.

Earlier this year we were at a petstore that I did not know sold snakes. Anyhow, they do have puppies (which I would not buy from there but I do love to go and hold them and play w/ them). Anyhow, there I was holding a 1# $2000 Yorkie when I was walking back to the register area to give the puppy back. Out of the corner of my eye I see an 8yr old kid walking in the same path as me w/ a snake wrapped around his arm. Same time DH see's what is about to happen (me and the kid are going to cross the same path at the same time and that snake is just slithering all over him). Well it wasn't going to happen I actually pushed dh out of the way and made a quicker beeline for the door-- He had to grab my arm because I was leaving the store w/ this $2000 puppy. I'm thinking security might of been called. I ended up bursting into tears.

Then in 2003 I had just picked my 1yr old neice up from daycare. We were driving home when I seen something poke out of the defroster vents on my dashboard. Caught it out of the corner of my eye. Yep- it was a snake. Only about 1 foot long--but any snake is a snake to me. I pulled the car over (if it wasn't for my neice I think I might of freaked and wrecked). Watched the snake the whole time and grabbed my purse, keys, then went to the back door to get her out of her carseat. Never took my eyes off that thing, not once. Lucky have it, my cell must of fallen out of my purse in the car. I had now lost site of the snake and was not reaching back in to get the phone. We are still a few miles from home. She cannot walk all that way. I have on my work clothes and heels- I cannot carry her all that way. We are in farm country w/ nothing really around. At that moment my son's principle goes by and pulls over. She recongizes me and asks if I'm having car trouble. I said yes- and she offered to run us home. So, she reached in and got the car seat, and I never told her about the snake. I was afraid she'd just remove the snake and think I'd go on my way. There wasn't a chance I was getting back in that car again. DH and I went back to the car he got the snake out and we switched cars. Funny thing was he had just gotten a brand new car a few weeks before, which then became mine. I NEVER went back into that car. I tried a few times and broke down so hard I couldn't do it. It happened in the daylight- but I still get upset sometimes driving at night knowing it could happen again. Only this time I wouldn't see it.

 

[kilee]

I just wanted to add- for the person w/ the rooftop vent. My parents were driving on the interstate a few years ago w/ their sunroof open. When a very large bird dropped a 3 ft snake into their sunroof into the truck. My dad sweerved and about crashed. He hates snakes too.

 

[floridafam]

For your viewing pleasure...

Some pictures of the snakes that live in our yard

http://web.mac.com/energylab/iWeb/Site/untitled album 4.html


I don't know what I'll do if I ever find one in the house.

 

[binny]

yeah, not much bothers me. Im not real fond of spiders but I can deal with them snakes I can deal with, but bats nope draw the line there! I think I watched way too many vampire movies as a kid or something LOL


This building that I worked in was a retirement home that had sat empty for at least 40 years. It was gorgeous and immense but it had been a TB ward back in the early/mid 1900's so I was already convinced the place haunted as all get out. I even had some that died there. VERY creepy place. It was beautiful but at night it was creepy and I had to go over to the part that hadnt been remodled yet and thats where I met Mr Bat

I screamed and ran for my life my poor dad ( who was helping) had to go do the lock off for me because I wouldnt go back.

Here is a link to the place Im talking about when you first click on it you will a pic in the upper right hand corner, its a macromedia though so I cant copy and the picture. You can see what I mean
http://www.parkplace-spokane.com/brookdale2004/propertydefault.aspx?tabid=165

 

[mickeysgal]

Then in 2003 I had just picked my 1yr old neice up from daycare. We were driving home when I seen something poke out of the defroster vents on my dashboard. Caught it out of the corner of my eye. Yep- it was a snake. Only about 1 foot long--but any snake is a snake to me.

Ok...this one got to me. I live in the southern U.S. in a place where rattlesnakes are common. In fact, they found a 4-5 foot long rattlesnake the size of a man's forearm in the lot next door when they were clearing it for a new house. Its common here to have garages without garage doors or simply carports. I know that if I saw a snake in my car, I'd crash, plain and simple. This post really has me messed up now!!!

 

[LukenDC]

Kilee, your story about the snake in the car reminded me of a something that happened in my area a few years ago. A woman landed at Dulles Airport outside of Washington and rented a car. As she was driving (it was after midnight), she felt something around her leg and it was a boa constrictor that had slithered out from under the seat and was rubbing against her legs and feet. Somehow she managed to calmly pull the car over, get out, and wait for the State Troopers.

If that had been me, I would have freaked. She was a brave woman!

 

[Tantor]

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!

Okay my cat just jumped on my lap as I was reading this and I jumped. I think we all need Dr.Phil!!!!

 

[Caropooh]

For your viewing pleasure...

Some pictures of the snakes that live in our yard

http://web.mac.com/energylab/iWeb/Site/untitled album 4.html


I don't know what I'll do if I ever find one in the house.

I'll just have you know that my heart stopped for a moment. I was so afraid that the actual picture was going to be there and not just the link.
It sounds like we need to start a snake phobia group here on the DIS. Anyone else want to join?

 

[suzannen]

A snake in my dryer? A snake in my cupboard? A snake dropping from the sky through my sunroof? OMG, now I have 3 more things to worry about! I think I'm hyperventilating.....HATE SNAKES!!

 

[irishbosoxfan]

When I was younger my sis and I were playing in the yard when we seen a huge,huge snake-my mom God love her is fearless and went out there with a rake and chopped the thing up into a hundred pieces-Come to find out later that night our neighbors Boa had gotten out of the house and he was out looking for it-My mom told him "It's in the box near the shed door" boy was he mad and yelling at my mom when he went to the box but hey she didn't know and I'm not sure she would have cared either.

About 2 yrs ago we had bought a 100 yr old house in a small town and loved it--Well after work one day I went to go down to the cellar to do laundry and see a bat hanging on the chimney so right back upstairs I went--I had had a couple get into the house itself and am in deathly fear of them so I called in an exterminator---When he went downstairs to catch the 2 (1 I had seen,1 I had heard) he came back up and told me I had what he called a COVEN and advised me to close the cellar door and not open it at all--NOT A PROBLEM--Well I call DH to tell him whats going on and just then I hear screaming and banging from the cellar so I run outside and look into the cellar window and I could barely see the guy there are so many bats flying around---He hauls butt upstairs and tells me he needs to call in help because he can't get them---Well long story short he couldn't get them all,the repellant stuff did'nt work and I got dive bombed one morning at about 4:30am as I woke up for work and right then and there I called my DH and told him we were moving--Bump the house,Bump the mortgage--I couldn't stand it anymore---

I absolutely hate rats(there is no such thing as a mouse to me)spiders,snakes and rats with wings(bats)

So I feel your pain OP and trust me when I say I would be on a chair right there with you--Well maybe not right there with you in spirit maybe--same room definetly not!

 

[jonestavern]

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.

am definitely showing your post to Steve (the police chief here)!

this is the funniest, if ookiest!, thread I've read in a dog's age!

Jean

 

[wilderness01]

I had a Fox Snake in my backyard once. At least 3 feet long and thick. I freaked out and called the police who came and got the ugly thing. They said that although it wasn't poisonous that if I got bit I had to call 911! I was screaming and carrying on every time the thing moved like someone was killing me. It was awful!

 

[kimmikayb]

I just wanted to add- for the person w/ the rooftop vent. My parents were driving on the interstate a few years ago w/ their sunroof open. When a very large bird dropped a 3 ft snake into their sunroof into the truck. My dad sweerved and about crashed. He hates snakes too.

note to self: do not buy a car with a sunroof...ever...ever...ever!!