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09-15-2008, 08:48 PM
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snakes, yikes!
A few weeks ago, my wife walked out on the back porch and there was a 3' black racer, I heard her scream from the garage, and ran out there she said a snake, so I went and got my machete and started hunting it, saw it behind playhouse against fence, went to chop it and bam, he was gone! So I waited about 1/2 hour for him to come out from under playhouse, no show.
Have not seen it since, well tonight I was watching tv in living room, got up to get a drink, something caught my eye by the curtains in the living room, holy crap! A snake in the house! It was reddish brown, I kept my cool, hurried to the garage to my my "yard tongs", my kids probably got a hold of them, so I got a towel(the whole time being very quiet), and caught the snake in the towel, luckily tomorrow is trash day, so I through the towel and the snake in the roadside trash can. Went online and it looked to be a corn snake. I don't dare say anything to my wife or kids. Holy crap, when will my wife or kids ever listen to me when I say "shut the door"!? I'm a little creeped out now.
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09-15-2008, 09:17 PM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
not a fan or expert on snakes but in the house cant be good... maybe some kind of trap?
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09-15-2008, 09:26 PM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
Having 'cobra' in your board name is better than having one in your house...
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09-15-2008, 10:12 PM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
Is it the king snake or the coral snake you have to worry about in Florida?
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09-16-2008, 10:04 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
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09-15-2008, 10:16 PM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
they're all King Cobras as far as I'm concerned ... the only GOOD snake is a DEAD snake.
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09-15-2008, 10:18 PM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
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09-15-2008, 10:27 PM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
I love some snake meat in chili other than that they can stay the heck out of my house.
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09-16-2008, 12:51 PM
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09-15-2008, 10:38 PM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
a lot of coral snakes I know in SOuth florida, I ran into many in my youth, nothing a machete would not fix, or my german shepard.
I'm still a little freaked out, keeping my feet off the floor. I agree, only good snake is a dead snake. (All you treehuggin' greenpeacers', stay out of my snake thread!)
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09-16-2008, 05:46 PM
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Seriously man, would you rather mice/rats or snakes?! A cornsnake in non-venemous, can't "hurt" ya! My pit mix got tagged by a rattler in the back yard a month or so ago and $1100 later she is OK, but I'd still have a tough time killing the snake, since the dog got close enough. I have kids, so yeah, I catch and move lots of them, but killing them for being a snake doesn't seem to make sense to me." BTW how's the 6.0 runnin?? I have heck tracking that thread, LMK, PM me K? |
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09-16-2008, 12:20 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
Wow thats crazy. I don't like snakes and especially not in the damn house! No way.
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09-16-2008, 12:38 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
Cant wait to hear about the screaming garbage man.
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09-16-2008, 01:39 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
I don't think anyone would call me a tree hugging green peacer (not and live to tell about it anyways) but I'm against nonvenomous snake death for one simple reason...they eat things like rats and mice that I like less than I like snakes. Poisonous snakes are a whole other story, except for my only encounter with a coral snake in Orlando, he was in the courtyard of my friends apartment, I just borrowed a broom from the maid and relocated him to some woods across a four lane road from the apartments.
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09-16-2008, 01:46 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
Had a rat snake in the house I was living in this past school year. I'm fine with snakes for the most part...except when they suddenly appear in your dark hallway. Luckily as I took off down the hall in one direction the snake took off down the other way.
I never did find him, my roommate did though. Tipped off by a horrible stench when he came home from vacation (no one had been in the house for about two weeks at the time) he found the thing rotting on a mouse trap along with two dead mice that he followed into the house. Great fun!
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09-16-2008, 06:35 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
Catch 'em and take them to the local pet store. They will buy them from you. We live in the country and every Spring, and during the Summer months, I see snakes wondering around. I'll usually catch a black snake or garter snake and slip him under the house for guard duty against mice. They stay there until the mice are gone. Don't believe in killing them though. But like krue said, I'm not going to let a poisonous one lurk around.
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09-16-2008, 07:36 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
In my opinion the only good snake is one that about 1/4" thick, 2" wide and has tire marks on him.
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09-16-2008, 08:03 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
Why do people hate snakes?
Most of the snakes you encounter around the house, garters, rat snakes, racers, etc. are not only harmless; they are beneficial. Snakes don't spread disease; rodents do.
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09-16-2008, 08:51 AM
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09-16-2008, 08:45 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
We had a mouse in the house last winter. I caught it the next day. The wife started to ash how it got in, but stopped mid-sentence and asked if it would have entered when she left the door to the garage open. All I said was probably.
Yes, you do need to tell the wife and kids. Too bad you didn't take a picture, you could hang it by the door as a reminder.
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09-16-2008, 09:27 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
ok.... (backing away....:P )
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09-16-2008, 09:42 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
I dont mind non venomous snake. Like it has been said that they eat things we dont like....mice...and other pests.
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09-16-2008, 10:19 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
I have a pet king snake... a coral snake can bite you dead. It's an elapid and has a potent neurotoxin (like an asp or sea snake.) They aren't very agressive, but a bite is very dangerous.
King snakes are non-agressive and quite beneficial to have around. As snakes go; they make very good, docile pets. King snakes: (Mine looks very similar to this one.) Coral Snake: 
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09-16-2008, 10:46 AM
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Re: snakes, yikes!
It can go on the same axiom I have for spiders, "outside, God's Creatures, inside, Dead!".
There's also a rhyme to tell kings from corals, something along the lines of "Red next black, friend of Jack. Red next to yellow, no friend of a fellow." You can see in Panhandlers' pics how the stripes are related to this.
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09-16-2008, 12:15 PM
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Java Mechanic
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Re: snakes, yikes!
King snakes are also significantly larger than coral snakes.. but stretching him out to measure him is not the best way to tell the difference.. lol
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