Whats the scoop on the DVC snakes we see?

[bobbiwoz]

Add otters to your list. We saw one on Saturday climbing out of the front pond at SSR. Our DVC van driver said they are all tagged and monitored by Disney.

I would love to see an otter! My most unusual sighting was a tree frog in our VWL villa. Got it out, but it attached itself to the chair on the balcony for quite awhile. I think it really wanted to come back in.

On Friday, I came across a 6 inch blackish snake at BCV. I let it go and wished it luck, it doesn't stand much of a chance of survival, so many things want to eat it.

Bobbi

 

[fishermouse]

So when the snake was in the room, was it a ground floor room? I am absolutley terrified of snakes, even little 6 inch harmless ones and i would not have been able to stay in that room, even after they took it out. Someone please tell me that if i stay on an upper floor i will never see a snake!

Sorry but snakes are great climbers, personally I think snakes are great I can sit and watch one for as long as it lets me. Plus they eat rodents and bugs they don't destroy your home or ruin your food. Well usually they don't ruin your food, they will hide in open containers or cereal box's.

 

[toocherie]

Well usually they don't ruin your food, they will hide in open containers or cereal box's.

OH. MY. GOD.

 

[zackiedawg]

Add otters to your list. We saw one on Saturday climbing out of the front pond at SSR. Our DVC van driver said they are all tagged and monitored by Disney.

Yep...shouldn't have forgot the otter! Especially since I have a pic of an otter at Magic Kingdom, at the Wilderness Lodge boat dock:

Haven't gotten a shot of the Disney skunks yet...but I occasionally get a whiff of them around my yard!

 

[Entropy]

We were walking into Blizzard Beach a year ago and watched as the ticket takers all ran to the side leaving their stations unattended. We soon saw why. There was a black snake moving amongst the turnstiles apparently oblivious to the people around it. When we got back to SSR, there was a van labeled "Reedy Creek Reptile Management" or something like that in front of our building. I never found out what reptile needed management and I'm not sure if I wanted to.
I looked-up the snake on the Internet and it seemed to be a Black Racer.

 

[the who #3]

i have always had snakes at my house. they have to live too. i don't bother them and they take care of the mice and poison snakes.

the poison snakes are usually short and fat. the none poison snakes are usually long and thin. there are exceptions to all rules and discriptions.

i have a few black non poison snakes that live in my yard that are 7 to 8 ft. long. they are really beautiful. those are pretty old and very regal. they do recognize me since we have shared the same property for so long. they will stick their heads up very high and look at me and then continue hunting food or water or just sunning themselves.

just watch where you are walking and also in the trees.

 

[wildernessDad]

DVC snakes? Are those the kind with the bad red-headed wigs who make a funny sucking-in sound with a high-pitched voice?

 

[moredisneyplease]

I figure its Florida and there's wildlife and the fact that we see all kinds of creatures shows that WDW supports wildlife preservation!

 

[the who #3]

no, it is the ones with the blue lips. they love to eat blue berries. and they are poison!

 

[DisDaydreamer]

We live on the edge of a forest and this was a banner year for black snakes. Usually see one or two during the non-winter months. This year we saw five. One was a 7 footer that DW insisted I relocate because it was checking out our chipmunk holes. It would like go in one hole and come out another. I had to get it with a rake. I'm not one of those pick'em up by the tail manly men.

 

[toocherie]

We live on the edge of a forest and this was a banner year for black snakes. Usually see one or two during the non-winter months. This year we saw five. One was a 7 footer that DW insisted I relocate because it was checking out our chipmunk holes. It would like go in one hole and come out another. I had to get it with a rake. I'm not one of those pick'em up by the tail manly men.

I'm with your DW.

This would be me if I saw a 7-foot snake:

 

[quentina]

I'm a city girl....I am afraid of worms

 

[JimMIA]

Im am totally freaked out by snakes (HATE THEM!!) but it is Florida, and I think snakes are their state bird!

Oh please!!! This is NOT true. Our state BIRD is the mosquito!

 

[dgaston]

I was waiting for you to weigh in Jim! I thought the mosquito was the state bird of MN! (Grew up there)

 

[jdg345]

Oh please!!! This is NOT true. Our state BIRD is the mosquito!

 

[the who #3]

are there no more of those interesting snakes or other creatures at wdw?

surely there are more. you bet your bottom dollar there are. look carefully.

 

[toocherie]

Well, this was my recent (November) experience at SSR.

The night we checked in we stayed in a studio only because we got in so late. The next morning we were moving to two separate studios and I went to check us in. I was traveling with my Mom, in her late 70's and on a walker.

When I got back she told me that a baby lizard was running around the room and she'd been trying to catch it! (on a walker, mind you!! ) We were on the third floor of one of the Grandstand buildings. I looked and couldn't find it, and since we were moving immediately to one of the studios (the other wasn't ready) I didn't think much more about it.

We moved to a first floor Grandstand studio to wait for the second studio and my Mom laid down on the sofa. I was working at the table on a computer, and out of the corner of my eye saw something move, and looked over to see an approximately 6 inch lizard come crawling out from beneath the sofa! That's TWO lizards in TWO separate rooms in TWO days!

Well, I opened the sliding door and managed to herd the lizard towards the door. Just as it got over there, it decided instead to climb up the curtain! Luckily it only crawled up part-way, and I was able to fling the curtain out the slider door and close the door--now lizard and curtain were both outside. Eventually the lizard climbed off into the bushes and I pulled the curtain back in. You could be sure I looked under the bed and sofa again before I went to sleep that night!

 

[toocherie]

Oh, and I wanted to add that we ended up for various reasons moving to the Paddock (not because of the lizard, there was a problem with the second studio) and one night I met a friend for a late drink at the Turf Club and came back to my studio around 11 p.m. The sprinklers had gone off and there were dozens of little frogs/toads out in the wet grass. It was very funny--they were everywhere and hard not to step on!

 

[jndmommy]

Last year outside our Raratonga room at Poly we saw several frogs...
On our way out of Blizzard Beach one day, dh said "look an armadillo." I being the naive, squeemish Jersey girl didn't dare look. Reading all these posts about snakes regardless if its harmless makes my skin crawl, YUCK!! I am already saying my prayers for 2nd or 3rd floor for my trips this year at AKV, SSR & OKW... I'll say my please don't let me see any gross creatures this year prayer a little more this year, lol!

 

[JimMIA]

Anyone who doesn't see frogs and lizards anywhere in Florida is simply not trying. They are absolutely everywhere.

I finally figured out what makes venomous snakes so dangerous. As part of our annual EMT refresher training, we had an excellent presentation by the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Venom Response Bureau. They showed us dozens of pictures of venomous snakebites.

Guess what part of the body they bite? Every single bite was on a finger!

I figure any animal who can strike accurately enough to always hit a finger (and usually the tip of the finger) is a deadly beast!