Snake in Resort Room?

[MinnieMommy07]

What time of year/ what months are snakes usually most active and seen in WDW resort? Which resorts are snakes most common at? How common is it to see a snake at WDW and the resorts?

 

[LD NURSE]

Just 2 days ago, I found a snake in my back yard!!Not a big snake, but 2 feet
long. I hate snakes!!!Hate them!!! Loathe them!!! I ran into my house and got my 11 yr old son and a hammer. What the hell was I thinking? Without going into all the gory details. The snake is now at rest. When my husband came home, I showed him. He said, "My God, dear, you just killed a copperhead. With a hammer! They jump, you know." We also found a skin in our garage. I don't even want to know where the rest of it is.... So I will be pulling back the covers, lifting up the pillows, looking at the curtains, staying out of the mulch, staying out of the bushes, and staying away from the waters of WDW when we go.

 

[DMMarla07860]

Just 2 days ago, I found a snake in my back yard!!Not a big snake, but 2 feet
long. I hate snakes!!!Hate them!!! Loathe them!!! I ran into my house and got my 11 yr old son and a hammer. What the hell was I thinking? Without going into all the gory details. The snake is now at rest. When my husband came home, I showed him. He said, "My God, dear, you just killed a copperhead. With a hammer! They jump, you know." We also found a skin in our garage. I don't even want to know where the rest of it is.... So I will be pulling back the covers, lifting up the pillows, looking at the curtains, staying out of the mulch, staying out of the bushes, and staying away from the waters of WDW when we go.

you killed a snake with a hammer? hahaha

 

[DMMarla07860]

I thought everyone would love this article.

http://news.aol.com/article/pythons...aol.com/article/pythons-loose-on-plane/430334

when I read about this, I was like well now the Snakes On A Plane song is about something real

 

[LD NURSE]

you killed a snake with a hammer? hahaha[/QUOTE]

Not a pretty site. Thank goodness it wasn't very big.

 

[collcass]

We saw a cottonmouth at POR last year. it was on the walkway between the main pool and the play scape and my boys went by it more times than I care to count. It was, by far, the largest snake I have ever seen.

 

[scooby9932]

Just 2 days ago, I found a snake in my back yard!!Not a big snake, but 2 feet
long. I hate snakes!!!Hate them!!! Loathe them!!! I ran into my house and got my 11 yr old son and a hammer. What the hell was I thinking? Without going into all the gory details. The snake is now at rest. When my husband came home, I showed him. He said, "My God, dear, you just killed a copperhead. With a hammer! They jump, you know." We also found a skin in our garage. I don't even want to know where the rest of it is.... So I will be pulling back the covers, lifting up the pillows, looking at the curtains, staying out of the mulch, staying out of the bushes, and staying away from the waters of WDW when we go.

That is so funny! A hammer! It reminds me of when I was 15 & my mom tried to kill a rattler with a hot pot of coffee!

We live in the Deep South on a 19 acre country estate with a large pond & a creek bordering the property. Needless to say, we get LOTS of snakes around the house.

Well, one day my mom opens up the kitchen door to the patio & she sees a rattlesnake right in front of the door. So what does she do? She grabs the nearest thing - a pot of hot coffee & throws it on the snake & then slams the door!

She yells for me to come & tells me what she'd done & asks me to get the swingblade & go kill it (lucky me, I was the only kid who wasn't afraid to try killing the snakes). I was laughing so hard. "Great, Mom, now you've made it angry!" When I went around to kill it, though, it was nowhere to be found.

Funny thing is later that day we hear a truck screech to a halt on the road in front of our house & then back up. This happened several times. When we went to investigate, our neighbor gets out of his pickup & bends over to pick up this 6' rattlesnake & says, "I saw it come onto the highway from your yard & ran it over a few times. It's dead now!" Mom was so happy. Until he said, "Watch out, though. These guys always travel in pairs. You've got another one somewhere." You should have seen my mom's face. Good news - I killed the 2nd one about a week later. This time I got it with a machete.

 

[Pixiedust34]

This is one of the most disturbing threads I've read on the Dis!

The only wild snake we ever saw at WDW was a dead snake. It was on a sidewalk at POFQ. Maybe one of those golf carts ran over it? I hope I never see a snake there again--dead or alive!

Our kids did have a chance to pet a snake with a cast member over at Conservation Station in AK. I kept a distance and let them enjoy the experience.

 

[nanalisa]

I've seen several snakes at WDW - more there than anyplace else in my life. One 5 footer was in the pool at WL, 1 on the sidewalk on the boat rental path - twice. One at EPCOT crossing the sidewalk in the Great Britain area, one in the lake between Future World and World Showcase. I hate snakes, they make me feel bad. Several years ago there were lots of posts of snakes getting in the rooms at the BC because patio doors were being left open. I don't like the way housekeeping props doors open while cleaning them. Anything could crawl in there when they aren't looking. I'm going to have bad dreams tonight.

 

[Vickie46]

what did they do with the 5 ft snake in the pool??? I am so curious.. The snake we saw was at Port Orleans Riverside...

 

[glasslipper]

OK~ Florida is the swamps guys... swamps have snakes, gators and all kinds of creepy crawly things

There are 44 different type of snakes native to Florida. There are only 6 poisonious snakes native to Florida...

They are
1. pygmy rattlesnake
2. eatern diamondback
3. timber rattlesnake
4. Cottonmouth
5. copperhead
6. coral snake

out of those the copperhead and coral snake or mostly found in or near water.

The most common snake in Florida is a solid black snake called the black racer. The only one in danger of a black racer is Mickey as they eat mice

IF by chance you see one, stay away from it, dont poke it with a stick or make any snake mad. All snakes will bite and all snake bites hurt ... I have been bitten by ball pythons and it swelled my hand up for a week!
To be honest ~ I would rather see a snake than a rat ANY DAY in a resort rats and mice carry 1,000s of diseases and snakes don't snakes eat mice and rats

If you are REALLY worried about poisonious snakes at Disney, I suggest googling each of the snakes I listed above and become familiar with them. I won't post pics HERE as not to scare anyone LOL

And for goodness sakes please keep in mind that you are in the middle of the Florida swamps

I guess you won't want to hear that I saw a RAT in Epcot! We were sitting on the patio at Rose & Crown, you know, those coveted patio tables everyone wants for illuminations?, Well, about 15 mins. before the show, we had one of our own: a rat ran across the patio right over my Mom's feet OMG, we were shocked, the people at the next table saw it too, we couldn't believe it. Yuck, yuck yuck!!!

 

[HRCCrazy]

I've read several posts of vistors hearing about other vistors seeing snakes in thier resort rooms.. I would think this is more likly for anyone who's door opens outside and most likly on the 1st floor... anyone have any actual real life encounters...not just heresay? Not that I doubt anyone, just the possibility of this feaks me out so bad, I guess I just want to see with my own eyes...a photo or something.. I DONT want to see one in my room

I for one found a snake in my bathroom at POP room 8122, they said it must have got in while the maid was cleaning the room. (See pic below)

 

[tinkerbellmagic]

I've seen several snakes at WDW - more there than anyplace else in my life. One 5 footer was in the pool at WL, 1 on the sidewalk on the boat rental path - twice.

*Respectfully snipped by me*

I can vouch for that. We also saw a long black snack slithering through the pool at WL in 2006. I wondered why everything went quiet and the lifeguard started ordering everyone out of pool. He then made his way under the bridge toward the geyser. The snake, not the lifeguard.

We found a lizard on our daybed at the Polynesian. I thought it was one of DGS's toys he won at the arcade until I touched it!!!!

 

[Kitzer]

My son was down for Disney college last fall and he spun the cap off his water bottle and he immediatley went to pick up. As he bent down he noticed it fell right on a snakes head. He said it looked like a snake with a little hat before the thing took off through the grass.

I remember visiting my aunt in Clearwater maybe 35 years ago when Florida was a lot more wild and less developed. I walked out of her house and the next door neighbor was beating a huge 12-15 ft snake into a cloth bag with a shovel. Being a little kid from Illinois, I freaked . I remember thinking what kind of place is this, the jungle.

 

[aliceinwdr]

Stupid...stupid...stupid me...

I have been so excited about my pirate room at CBR - what was I thinking. I got a waterview room - WHY to be closer to the snakes!!!

Why did I read this post - over 20 times to WDW and I have never seen a snake!! Now I feel cursed.

When I was about 8 years old I was in Louisiana walking through a cow pasture with my grandma and her dogs were sniffing out a snake and she was looking for it. I was about to step over a cow pie when a head popped out of it. I screamed jumped 8 feet in the air and ran. My crazy Grandma came over and beat it with a large object and picked it up to ask me if I wanted to take it home. It was about a 4 foot cottonmouth.

I HATE snakes!!

LY I was walking though our living room with my dd -3 and I see a snake over by the wall. I scream, tried to remember to grab the baby and run - my husband peaks around the door with me to look at it - walked out there and picked it up be the neck only to laugh and bring it to me like it was alive - it was plastic. I had bought them for my kids survivor party and they had given it to the baby to play with. She had no idea why mommy was so hysterical. Now the snake "hides" all over the house...

 

[stitch34]

I for one found a snake in my bathroom at POP room 8122, they said it must have got in while the maid was cleaning the room. (See pic below)

ugh! just when I was hoping Pop would be a snake-free resort! why am I so fascinated with this thread and keep reading it?!

 

[tabbybizgan]

We stayed at the Polynesian Resort and we didn't have any problems in the rooms.

We did have a mini lizard/gheko that was right inside the entrance, and we saw it several times, hiding behind the plants. The kids thought it was cute.

 

[P.I. Squirrel]

I for one found a snake in my bathroom at POP room 8122, they said it must have got in while the maid was cleaning the room. (See pic below)

We saw a similar snake at Pop around the same time last year as your photo. We were unloading our bags, and he crossed the sidewalk in front of me. Too quick for a photo, though.

I noticed your photo was out of focus. That appears to be the quickest "open the door, shoot it, and close the door" I have ever seen!

 

[pacman9a]

My DW is terrified of snakes, she can't even watch them on tv. We don't have many in the UK I think only 2 or 3 types and only one of them is mildly venomous. She will completely freak out if she even sees one in the distance never mind in our room.

I'd better make sure she doesn't see this thread or I'll be dismantling every stick of furniture from our room every day to show that its snake free!

Like other posters I don't mind them from a safe distance and even find them fascinating but I would scream and cry if there was one in my bed!!

 

[hockeymom3]

I must also be a sucker for punishment because I keep reading this stinkin thread when all its doing is making me worry about seeing a snake. I would have to ask for a new room if I ever found a snake in it.

Honestly, I think this is the ONLY reason that I couldn't live in Florida. Don't get me wrong, I know other places have snakes and stuff - I couldn't live there either!!