Was washing the dishes, heard Mrs Q scream in the living room. Found this little guy slithering along. It's about a foot long. Have no idea what it is, but my guess is it's a garden snake. Got it inside a container and released it in the back yard. That was our Sunday evening excitement.

The fuzzy white stuff at the front is just some debris-mixed spider web.

Appears to be a juvenile “Plain bellied water snake”

My wife would've burned the house down

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
Appears to be a juvenile “Plain bellied water snake”

So the poor little guy was an the way to the toilet bowl, for when the wife lifted the lid.

Yeah-not danger noodle. More like nope rope. The eyes let ya know.

My wife would have screamed then called the realtor to sell the house. I hope Mrs. Q has recovered from the excitement.

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This little feller was in my front yard a few weeks ago. I was in a rush to get ready for work, so I could only take him out the nearby desert and not go deep. I hope he made it.

I have gentleman’s agreement with all of God’s creatures.


If I find them in my house, I have the option to kill them with extreme prejudice. If they find me in their house they can kill me if they choose. Either party is allowed to put up as much defense as they are able.


I think that is fair.

Scorpions are where I draw the line. I hate them so much, I want to make them talk before I hit them with my torch. My record is 22 in one night in the backyard. I will kill them all if anywhere on my property. I leave them alone if I'm out in the desert. I'll never kill a snake on purpose, but I have run over a few by accident on the road.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
My wife would've burned the house down

ditto, and not stopped for anything,

toss a match and run like hell,



found a baby black (King) snake in the garage one day, thankfully she was not home yet, so he was quickly relocated, and never mentioned

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
I have gentleman’s agreement with all of God’s creatures.


If I find them in my house, I have the option to kill them with extreme prejudice. If they find me in their house they can kill me if they choose. Either party is allowed to put up as much defense as they are able.


I think that is fair.

grandmother , country gal, had a rule, all snakes got a pass, unless they were in a tree near the house
if a snake can climb a tree, it can climb in the house, so she would kill them

snake on the ground, or in the chicken coop, got relocated to the corn crib,



uncle, had a house with basically a crawl space for an attic,
he went up to do something, don't recall what, and went thru the hole, across one bedroom, and a snake was in the insulation and lifted its head up,

he backed up the same way he went, put the cover back on the hole in the ceiling, and never went in the attic again,

^^^^^

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he backed up the same way he went, put the cover back on the hole in the ceiling, and never went in the attic again,

We have a long time resident black rat snake that lives part time in the full house length crawl space. It is quite large at around 6’+ and is one of the largest I’ve seen and I see them frequently. I’m quite happy to have it around even if it freaks the Aussie out to no end on the rare occasion we see it coming or going. When I discovered the way it was getting in (a foundation vent that was partially pushed out) I left it that way to allow it easy access.

I would have burned MY house down!

Glad it wasn't a dangerous one! Up here in northern New England, it is very rare to find a venomous snake. Saw this in the cellar of my Dad's old farmhouse a couple of years ago, and had to look it up. Just a milk snake, that eats rodents, so I left it there to happily hunt any it could find! I later mentioned it to my wife, who hasn't gone down there since then.

I have a modest sized organic raised bed garden. I start a lot of my seeds under grow lights in my house. Part of the process prior to transplanting outdoors in the raised bed garden is called "hardening off" which is where the week prior to transplanting you bring the young seed starts outdoors an hour or two longer every day to acclimate them. My grow lights are on 6 ft tall rolling shelf and it's easy peasy to roll the whole thing outdoors every day and back indoors at the end of it's hardening off time.

A couple years ago, about 30-minutes after bringing the rolling grow light shelf back indoors I found a snake slithering between the grow lights and my living room. It wasn't poisonous but got the old heart rate pumping.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
My wife would've burned the house down

I'd nuke it from space.

Had a FL Black Snake (Southern Black Racer) slither out of the grass while mowing yesterday, probably 3 foot long, he headed for the Viburnum hedge and disappeared.

Wife would have ran, but they are really harmless, kill bad snakes, rats, mice...

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
This little feller was in my front yard a few weeks ago. I was in a rush to get ready for work, so I could only take him out the nearby desert and not go deep. I hope he made it.

Those are nothing to play around with as you know. I have seen a few by my home and the occasional moccasin, when it rains hard. Sometimes I just want to get a flamethrower for that exact reason.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Had a FL Black Snake (Southern Black Racer) slither out of the grass while mowing yesterday, probably 3 foot long, he headed for the Viburnum hedge and disappeared.

Wife would have ran, but they are really harmless, kill bad snakes, rats, mice...

That is a very handsome specimen right there, very sharp looking. Looks like he's wearing a tuxedo on the way to a fancy party.