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Found A Snake In My House Yesterday . . .


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[quote name='God Conquers' post='1287853' date='Jun 4 2007, 02:05 AM']Dude, animals love your house.[/quote]

Yeah... he must have like... St. Francis' blessing or something...

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cmotherofpirl

Did you smell anything in the basement when the snake was there? Copperheads and water moccains smell like cucumbers.
They also have slit eyes like a cat.

Milksnakes, regular water snakes, and hognoses all look like copperheads, but are non-poisonous and have round eyes like people

I learned this at a young age after I picked up funny wiggly worms and tried giving them to my mother :)

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AAHHH why did u kill it??? Snakes are good and they eat the mice and rats. If it was a copperhead though it might have been the best thing, since they strike if touched.

Aret they just scary looking snakes with the blue slit eyes. I have had my fair share of coming across some friendly vipers before in the back country.

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[quote name='cmotherofpirl' post='1287925' date='Jun 4 2007, 11:52 AM']Did you smell anything in the basement when the snake was there? Copperheads and water moccains smell like cucumbers.
They also have slit eyes like a cat.

Milksnakes, regular water snakes, and hognoses all look like copperheads, but are non-poisonous and have round eyes like people

I learned this at a young age after I picked up funny wiggly worms and tried giving them to my mother :)[/quote]

No, I didn't notice any strange smells. I've never heard that copperheads and water moccasins smell like cucumbers. Where'd you hear that? I do, however, know that pit vipers like rattlesnakes, copperheads, and water moccasins have slit eyes. But I wasn't about to get close enough to see for sure! :unsure:

It was definitely a copperhead. I've looked at pics, and I can say without a doubt it was a copperhead. Besides, it had the triangle-shaped head that pit vipers are known for. The non-poisonous snakes you mentioned don't have heads like that.

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[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1287550' date='Jun 3 2007, 08:59 PM']I'll take snow over snakes, gators, scorpions, spiders, ants and whatever else you got down there...[/quote]

:yes:

That is not cool at all.

Call an exterminator and get [i]them[/i] to check for any more snakes down there. What if there is a whole den of snakes that you haven't found??? :shock:

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[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1287550' date='Jun 3 2007, 07:59 PM']I'll take snow over snakes, gators, scorpions, spiders, ants and whatever else you got down there...[/quote]

When I was growing up (in Minnesota) there was a house two blocks down from us owned by the Kraykes family. One summer for no explicable reason whatsoever, their house was overrun with hundreds (one estimate had it at 1500) garter snakes. It made the newspaper.

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[quote name='hot stuff' post='1288816' date='Jun 5 2007, 04:54 PM']When I was growing up (in Minnesota) there was a house two blocks down from us owned by the Kraykes family. One summer for no explicable reason whatsoever, their house was overrun with hundreds (one estimate had it at 1500) garter snakes. It made the newspaper.[/quote]

[img]http://www.supah.com/misc/psonaplane.jpg[/img]

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[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1288863' date='Jun 5 2007, 05:17 PM'][img]http://www.supah.com/misc/psonaplane.jpg[/img][/quote]
:lol_roll:

that's almost as fun as the Pee Wee Cowboy postcard I sent you ...

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