Snake in Resort Room?

[Janell]

Snakes can stay underwater for a while before they have to get air but I wouldn't think they would just lay on the bottom. Snakes won't want to be where there is a lot of foot traffic plus the water is clear.

Thanks. I thought the snakes didn't lime us as much as we don't lime them.. I just like to know when I should be more aware. There is so much to distract you at Disney that you can forget to keep an eye out for things.

 

[BamaTigger]

I remember seeing it somewhere in the beginning. There's not much to see....it's at the top of the window, hiding above curtains. I think I remember that there's a CM trying to get it down with a stick of some sort. Pretty scary!

 

[weHEARTmickey]

Also, isn't there a good chance there are alligators in the river I remember seeing a video on youtube of an alligator (it was a small one) in the water at splash mountain. That was a little freaky.

We saw a baby alligator at the Boardwalk in Sept. It was in the river, as you cross over the bridge (from the parking lot to the resort.) There was a girl who pointed it out to us as we were walking up. It just floated there & didn't move around much. I took a picture of it, but it turned out really dark since my camera is terrible! We were there for dinner ressies at Kouzima. I do not let my kids ANYWHERE near the ponds or water's edges.

 

[mickey family]

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This is where the accident occured. The snake was under a bush right next to the light pole. My son reached down to pick up a toy he dropped.

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This is at Celebration ER within 2 hours of being bitten. He was moved to Florida's Children Hospital in the pediatric intensive care unit. He was in the hospital 3 days and received 12 vials of anitvenin.

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This was taken the day he was released from the hospital. Check out the swelling in his hand.

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I saw 2 water moccasins in the lake at CBR the day we moved to a different resort

 

[weHEARTmickey]

This is where the accident occured. The snake was under a bush right next to the light pole. My son reached down to pick up a toy he dropped.
.....This is at Celebration ER within 2 hours of being bitten. He was moved to Florida's Children Hospital in the pediatric intensive care unit. He was in the hospital 3 days and received 12 vials of anitvenin....
This was taken the day he was released from the hospital. Check out the swelling in his hand...
I saw 2 water moccasins in the lake at CBR the day we moved to a different resort

Oh my! I do remember reading your thread! Was it last year or 2008?? So sorry for you guys. I told my kids about your DS & they were terrified to get off the paths. It's good that you reposted this, because I did share your story w/ a family who was letting their children play around the mulch. Wouldn't be a bad idea to post a new thread saying "Pics of my Son's WDW snake bite" or something like that....to remind people to keep their kids away from the water's edges, mulch, etc.... How's the little guy now?

 

[mickey family]

It was just last year, May 2009. We are actually coming up on the one year anniversary. As odd as it sounds, I am planning a celebration on that day. We just want to celebrate that fact that our little guy is still with us and healthy. His finger gets a little stiff sometimes, but otherwise he is doing well. Thanks for asking.

I always hesitate to post anything more because it seems like old news, but if I had heard a story like ours before we left, I am sure we would have been more cautious. Would it have changed the outcome? Who knows. Anyway, have a great day!

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Wow...I haven't seen any reports of anyone dying from a snake bite in Disney. Snakes have an important part to play in our ecosystem. Your only risk of being bit is if you mess with one or accidently step on one - you are not on their menu.
I love the little garter snakes I get around my house..they're really cute. I'm not crazy about the idea of venomous ones - but I will leave them alone..and if by chance I step on one and get bit, I am sure the medics will have the proper anti-venom for the local species and Disney will probably give me a free pass or something.
You all really need to calm down - if you live your life in fear of dying, you aren't really living! And...PS...you ARE going to die..eventually...

Oh, we love garter snakes and black snakes and king snakes in our house. But moccasins, cottonmouth, rattlers and coral snakes, not so much.

Snakebites are dangerous and quite painful. The medics won't have the antivenom; for that you have to go to the hospital. All the while, hot poison flows through your body. If you're lucky, you'll only be hospitalized for a while in severe pain and deathly ill for a few days and suffer no permanant damage. But some people do suffer permanant damage from snake bites.

I wasn't sure about the various effects past the fact that it's not an easy thing to recover from and that it's extremely painful, so I did a quick Google.

http://emed.stanford.edu/education/Didactics/snakebites.htm

Don't dismiss the dangers of a snakebite! I play in the woods and sidestep poisonous snakes all the time - they generally won't bite you if you don't bother them, but their bites are nothing to regard lightly.

 

[mickey family]

Interesting to read now, but I am glad I did not know all of that at the time my son was bitten. Very scary stuff.

 

[sarar3]

Great!!! I'm just a little freaked out right now! I live in NC in a 1ST FLOOR Condo...and the other week my son and I were coming home from the store and found baby copperhead in the pine mulch...my husband picked it up with a stick and threw it in the woods...but now I'm freaked out checking everywhere for s-n-a-k-e-s's....
To the person who's son was bitten, I'm so happy he is ok! Wow i can't even imagine how terrifying that was. What kind of snake bit him?
OK, hoping to get some sleep tonight and I'm definitley NOT staying at the CBR in a pirate room...NO Thanks!

 

[mouseaddictoldschool]

somebody asked earlier in the thread, so they may have had their question answered already....


I remember seeing a film one time that talked about effective animal repellants.

Apparently, as you are walking in an area and want to keep the animals away, you carry two sticks and bang them together while you walk. Worked in the movie, anyways.......

 

[kyl]

Love this, it is so funny. I am from Australia and live near a national park so we have had a few in the yard at times and once on our kitchen window....now that was not nice. But I have a friend who lives around the corner and she keeps a shovel near her back door as her cat kindly brings half dead brown snakes to her back door and leaves them there. Of course she picks up the shovel and bashes them over the head!!!! Brown snakes are like deadly if they bite and here she is bashing it. We are both nurses as well and should know better but it is so funny to see her doing it.

 

[nanalisa]

somebody asked earlier in the thread, so they may have had their question answered already....


I remember seeing a film one time that talked about effective animal repellants.

Apparently, as you are walking in an area and want to keep the animals away, you carry two sticks and bang them together while you walk. Worked in the movie, anyways.......

Wasn't that just for mountain lions?

 

[mouseaddictoldschool]

Heh, no the sugar water keeps the mountain lions away..... wait.....

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

What has this thread done to me?!?!
Well it helped me to name my PTR for one thing (see siggy)

BUt seriously, I try to laugh at it, but its scary! I hate snakes, we don't have many here in Jersey.

We really don't have any scary creatures here.....o wait, sorry we do...its called the Danielle Staub. .

 

[nanalisa]

What has this thread done to me?!?!
Well it helped me to name my PTR for one thing (see siggy)

BUt seriously, I try to laugh at it, but its scary! I hate snakes, we don't have many here in Jersey.

We really don't have any scary creatures here.....o wait, sorry we do...its called the Danielle Staub. .

I would rather run into the snakes I've seen at WDW again than run into Danielle and her rat faced friend Danny!

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

I would rather run into the snakes I've seen at WDW again than run into Danielle and her rat faced friend Danny!

hahahahaha
and that other guy that is always with Danny, he's pretty creepy too!

 

[disney_girl125]

Why did I open this thread? lol..yuck! I am staying at pop in December and requested a ground floor room. Am I better off being up a floor? lol

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Why did I open this thread? lol..yuck! I am staying at pop in December and requested a ground floor room. Am I better off being up a floor? lol

I am wishfully thinking that
I am requesting a 2nd floor room @ CBR lol

 

[MODisneyfan]

somebody asked earlier in the thread, so they may have had their question answered already....


I remember seeing a film one time that talked about effective animal repellants.

Apparently, as you are walking in an area and want to keep the animals away, you carry two sticks and bang them together while you walk. Worked in the movie, anyways.......

PArent Trap.. I LOVE that movie!!

anywho, I don't like snakes.. I'm from MO and live in an area where we see them alot.. It isn't that alot around here would hurt me but they might make me hurt myself.. LOL.. The other day I went out to put the trash out and there was this HUGE black snake right at the bottom of the stairs. Thank goodness it kept on going but i make my dad take the trash out and didn't go out for the rest of the day. I am so requesting atleast a 2nd floor room at Pop.

 

[PoohNFriends]

This isn't Disney related but is snake/vacation related. My DBF's aunt told us the story this weekend how a few weeks ago a snake (rat snake, I think she said) came slithering out from underneath their TV armoire in their living room. They caught it under a bucket then a neighbor came over with a gardening tool which the snake wrapped around, she took it outside, and quickly laid the snake to rest (to put it nicely). I guess the hot, dry weather in the north Texas area has really brought out the snakes. Glad I'm not vacationing there anytime soon. And hope I don't see one at the most magical place on earth, whether harmless or not!