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Single Women Dealing with Snakes

Single Women Dealing with Snakes

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by: bubbleyes72 Active Indicator LED Icon 18 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 8:40am  
Good morning all,
 
When you are a single lady and you find/see a snake who are supposed to call? On yesterday I called a neighbor and she too is afraid of snakes. So she went next door and told her neighbor and he and his son came over but by the time they got there the snake was gone they said. I'm just wondering if anyone else here has wondered the same thing as me..... The snake was big and crawling on my back deck going under my gas grill. I was sitting at the kitchen table on yesterday eating lunch and looking out back and saw it. Glad I was home from work to see that I had a snake living at my house. I'm afraid of them too; I don't like snakes, rats or cats!!!! 4951
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WskyTngoFxtrt Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 9:06am  
They sell this stuff called "Snake-A-Way" at Lowe's or Home Depot. You can also use moth balls to deter snakes. 4951
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topcat Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 9:14am  
Mothballs are super toxic to animals and humans, and heat causes them to off gas napthalene faster. I think snake away contains this chemical as well. There are natural ways to repel snakes. I want to say camphor oil, but you'd have to look it up. It messes with the snakes olfactory sense, and they hate that. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 9:15am  
@bubbleyes72:  Keep a shovel or hoe handy.  They allow you to deal with the snake while keeping a distance.  Some snakes are "good" so try to learn the difference, but my motto is "If in doubt, whack it" 4951
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WskyTngoFxtrt Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 9:22am  
Mothballs are super toxic to animals and humans, and heat causes them to off gas napthalene faster. I think snake away contains this chemical as well. There are natural ways to repel snakes. I want to say camphor oil, but you'd have to look it up. It messes with the snakes olfactory sense, and they hate that.
@topcat: We're all going to die anyway. Some people don't mind getting there quicker than others. 4951
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TXSunDvl Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 9:26am  
Buy a mongoose. 4951
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 9:37am  
If it is NOT a poisonous snake, it will help in controlling rats and mice.They will usually also leave the area if you just shew them away.However if you have some around, that means there is food available (they like food) so your choice maybe a harmless snake or some rats/mice.If you can eliminate the rat/mice food source, then the snakes will leave on their own accord. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 9:50am  
Some snakes are "good" so try to learn the difference
 
@Retired_Engineer: If I could be allowed to clarify this I'd say that we only have 4 snakes that are venomous and only 2 of them are "bad".
Coral snakes (red touches yellow, kill a fellow) are common around here and are our most toxic snake by a long shot (part of the cobra family), but they don't have fangs like a viper.  They have to sort of gnaw on you repeatedly for you to get enough venom in you to hurt you.  Sort of like a snake hickie.  They are such a small threat that they stopped making anti-venom years ago.  Their mouth is also so small that even a full-grown adult would need access to your little toe or little finger and again, for a sustained time.  They are shy, they are skiddish, and if you get bit by one it's because you are dumb enough to be playing with it.We technically have rattle snakes indigenous to the area but they are pretty scarce, they are also very skittish, and they'll run from you long before they'll fight.  Again, unless you're messing with them you are safe.That leaves cottonmouths and copperheads.  Both will bite you.  Both can be aggressive.  Cottonmouths tend to live around bodies of water.  They smell like ammonia and you really don't have to make them mad...the sort of stay that way.  Unless you have a pond or creek in your back yard you probably will never see one of these guys.  Copperheads, on the other hand, are plentiful and will have no problem hanging out in your yard, garage, doorways, etc.  Most people get bit by stepping on them without seeing them.  When we're camping I always remind my kids to shuffle their feet as they walk through the brush.  Better to scare them off than step on them.  Although a nature lover and protector of wildlife, I have no problem with people killing copperheads.  They do have their purpose in nature and I'll shoo them away personally, but I understand someone's desire to kill this particular snake if it's in your yard.So that's 4 "bad" snakes, only 2 of which you will probably ever see in your yard in this area and only 1 that presents any sort of practical danger to you.  All the rest serve a purpose in our ecosystem.  Rat snakes, corn snakes, milk snakes all eat bugs, lizards, and rodents as do garter and ribbon snakes.  King snakes eat rodents, bugs, lizards, etc in addition to eating other snakes.  None of them will eat or harm children or grandbabies.  None of them will eat or harm your ankle-biter dogs.  The OP said it themselves, left alone the snake just disappears and is a threat to no one.<gets off soapbox> 4951
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bubbleyes72 Active Indicator LED Icon 18 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 9:52am  
Okay, thanks everyone for your answers. I will stop by Lowe's and pick up something. I'm afraid to look at snakes, even on a picture or movie, so to see one in real life haunts me. When I saw it out my back door I jumped up grabbed my phone and headed out my front door calling my neighbor. So I asked her if I needed to call the fire department because I really didn't know what to do and I just panicked. My garage is detached and I have to go out that way to get to my car..... all my male family members were at work and so my neighbor was the first person to come to mind......
 
Needless to say when my alarm went off this morning the snake was the first thing to come to mind..... for I knew I had to go out my back door. Emoticon 4951
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bubbleyes72 Active Indicator LED Icon 18 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 9:54am  
Oh this snake was black with two yellow stripes going down his body........ Emoticon 4951
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shodan66 Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 9:57am  
Oh this snake was black with two yellow stripes going down his body........
 
@bubbleyes72: Sounds like a ribbon snake!  I hear what you're saying about having a phobia, but please trust me when I say that you want this guy in your back yard.  He'll eat mice and bugs and all sorts.  Although I don't recommend it if you're not positive of the species, you could actually pick him up and hold him.  He's very docile and really, truly just wants to be left alone. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 10:04am  
My wife didn't know the difference between snakes so when we moved here, I bought a book about "Texas Snakes".We've had several copperheads and one small rattler in our yard.  We've also had several garter snakes.  The copperheads were chopped, the rattler disappeared, and we left the garter snakes alone. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 10:04am  
Texas Ribbon snake, good snake.Also will leave if they see you.I like them in my back yard.Also when they seem to be around, other bad snakes do not seem to be around.Might be a food thing where the ribbon snakes are eating all the bugs and rodents and stuff leaving nothing for the bad ones.They are actually rather attractive to look at also. 4951
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bubbleyes72 Active Indicator LED Icon 18 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 10:13am  
@Fofa, please no pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had to back out ASAP when I began to see that picture and come back to post, I don't like the sight of them EmoticonEmoticon 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 10:49am  
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~ 9 years ago   Jul 22, '14 1:19pm  
when we lived in Kingwood I killed a 3 foot coral snake in our back yard & a 2 foot copperhead  in our garage . I do not like them at all , but I did not want them harming my poodles , I used a 30 lb. sledge hammer to kill the copperhead & a  sharp shovel to chop off the head of the coral snake. It was not something I wanted to do as I feel all creatures serve a purpose  in one way or another, just not in my yard or house. 4951
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