Effing Rattlesnakes
 

I hate it when they get in my house. Nothing like taking a flat blade shovel and grinding it's head off on my new hardwood floors.
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good eatin!

Oh f-that!

You need a pet mongoose or something.

Bill

Ran across a brown recluse spider in the house when I was a kid. Took about 10 years off my life. Rattlesnakes? Oh HELL no...

I would scream like a littlle girl, and then blast the heck out of it.

Ummm, isn't that a bull snake?

+1

Does it matter is is a frigging snake IN THE HOUSE! Shoot first explaign to the wife later

Doesn't look like a Rattler at all.

Might be, I saw him slide under the bed. Didn't have much room to work.

Bull snake aka gopher snake is harmless and also a benefit. Why would you kill it?

Learn to spell nexr? Jus' kiddin' :).

"Hey!"

"Yeah?"

"You a rattler?"

"No!"

"OK"


:D


KT

+1, tasty

never had gopher snake before though

If you get a cat, it will keep the rodent population down, discourage the serpents

I'm not sure how much effort I'd go through to rescue a non-venomous snake that was already inside my house. If it was venomous, I'd probably be moved to hit it was .22 rat shot and be prepared to repair whatever else I damaged in the house. I need to build a snake stick anyway, so I don't have to do what Hugh did. I could not harm a venomous snake.

That's a dead snake in my house.

I hate I hate I HATE rattlesnakes! They are all over the place here in Florida. I've never killed one in my yard, but I do have a rattlesnake story-

Orlando, 2002: I was living in south Orlando, and knew about a junkyard out east of town that had a couple of old 928 hulks sitting burried up to their axles in mud. I had a day off and nothing to do, so I climbed into my 1966 Ford F100 ["Happy Truck"] and burned some oil up to Bithlo. Upon encountering said partially-submerged V8 supercars...I noticed that one of them, a 1979 model....had a **PERFECT UN-CRACKED INSTRUMENT POD**-!

Holy Ben-Wa Balls Batman-!

[For those of you not familiar with the 928 world, an un-cracked original instrument pod is the HOLY GRAIL of 928 parts! Typically, these can sell for between $400 and $600. It is possible to re-finish a pod, or install a plastic cover over a pod; but the really desireable part is an uncracked original pod.]

Upon seeing this, I went back to the counter and asked the Puerto Rican 20-year old working there what he wanted for the "instrument cover" on that old Porsche out back...

"Fourty bucks mang" he said. Listen...I didn't walk back to that car...I ran! Actually, I think I was "skipping" I was so f*cking happy! I reached the car with my tools, and pulled the drivers door open...

"tch tch ch ch ch chchchchcchch!" I heard. Sure enough, sitting on the passenger floor board of the dilapidated car was a "bell-boy" about 3 feet long.

mm Hmm. Un-cracked pod versus rattlesnake?: I decided the bastard's fate in milliseconds! I think I actually used the "MF" word at that point. I looked around, and noticed that the side trim of the Volvo next to the car was loose. I pulled it off and me and Mr. Snake went to battle. I won- he decided that the flailing Volvo trim wasn't worth the passenger side floorboard of a 928 and beat a hasty retreat out the cracked-open passenger door. I pulled the pod in 15 minutes and "skipped" back to the parts counter. Normy scores! I now have a perfect pod as a result!

-If I found a rattlesnake in the yard, I'd get the shovel.

-If I found a COTTONMOUTH in the yard, the .410 is coming out; damn the neighbors!

Rattlesnakes are annoying and nothing more. What is really nasty is a cottonmouth! Rattlesnakes only get nervous if you approach them and they cannot escape. Goddamn cottonmouths will cross the yard or cross the canal to try to attack you! These I can do without.

N!

Interesting. I guess I got desensitized to snakes growing up in central Texas. We had coral snakes, water moccasins, copper heads, and rattle snakes literally all over the place. We also had lots of nonvenomous snakes around including bull snakes that were always trying to sneak into the house and sometimes had to be manually escorted out. Never had a venomous one in the house, though (on the driveway sunning itself once in a while).
You just need to get very good a identifying venomous from nonvenomous if you're going to live in snake country. Best not to learn the hard way though. :D

Looks like a gopher snake to me. That said, while non venomous, they are mean as hell!

Few years back was at a business dinner w/a client who'd never eaten chicken! He decided to give it a try and said "tastes just like rattlesnake".

Looks like gopher snake. as good to have around for mice as a cat. I can understand the "shoot first and ask questions later", but the rattler head is "shovel" shaped and looks like no rattle on that one although I wouldn't wait for the hind end to exit the bed before taking action. Makes a nice hat band though.

[QUOTE=Rick Lee;4197716] I need to build a snake stick anyway, so I don't have to do what Hugh did. QUOTE]

I keep meaning to do that too but always remember, as I'm holding a shovel, preparing for the epic battle.

Luckily with 2 cats constantly on the prowl, I haven’t had any in the house.

They are only mean when cornered, or fear for their life.
That is not a rattle snake, but I don't want it in my house either.
We have rattlers, bull, King and racers here. Don't even see the rattlers too often but they are out there.

Bull snakes actually kill rattle snakes. Kind of counterproductive to kill them. If you aren't comfortable scooping them up and releasing them into the wild (a long ways away) call a local university, pet store or pest control outfit. They'll be happy to help you out.

Rattlesnakes and all venomous snakes in the US are easy to identify by the oversized triangular shaped head. I mean serious arrowhead shaped. If the head doesn't look like a big fat arrowhead, then it's almost certainly not poisonous. Try not to get all Freudian and scared when you see a snake. It's just another animal. Think it out. There's no reason the snake has to die.

Normy - a Holy Grail part for the 928 only costs about $400? Seems like a lot of work for that particular grail.

Whether you like snakes or fear them, everyone in the U.S. should learn to identify pit vipers. It's so easy and it could save your life someday. AFAIK, the Coral snake is the only venomous snake in the U.S., which is not a pit viper and they can easily be mistaken for King snakes (Red and black, poison lack. Red and yellow, poison fellow.) You can get tagged by a Coral snake, which supposedly is not very painful, think it's a King snake, not worry about it and then drop dead because you didn't know you needed a med-evac. to a hospital right away. I've been tagged by a King snake before, but it was a pet and I knew exactly what it was. Unfortunately, a lot of snakes not indigenous to this continent are getting released in areas like FL now by folks who thought they'd make cool pets and then couldn't handle them once they got big. But I've not heard of any exotic, non-indigenous, venomous snakes being found in wild in this country.

I doubt a cat will keep snakes away. Any snake that feels hungry or threatened would make very short work of a house cat. There's a photo floating around out there of an Anaconda swallowing a Cheetah. And wild cats are far more alert in the wild than house cats are around the house.

Exactly. They also eat rattlers, so now the chance of finding a real rattler in house is increased.

I've had a lifelong fear of Anacondas, so I've always kept a cat or two - so far so good.

I wouldn't purposely kill a non-venomous snake. Like I said, it was slithering under my bed. I didn't have a chance to interview him. Also, I hate snakes, and after I killed it, I didn't look real close at it. I just dumped it. I've killed 9 real rattlers in my yard in the last decade.

Hugh I think you may have anger issues, we are all God's creatures and why can't we all just get along ??:D:D
Did you ever think about keeping a sharpened garden hoe around ? Easier to cut off their heads with.... That would creep me out having that thing in the house!!

He said 'anaconda'...Heh, heh.




KT

I don't think he has anger issues, but he does have some very inventive, resourceful gopher snakes in his area, because I've never known one that could turn a doorknob.

Dude... it's time to move... next, you'll find one in your bed at night, or hissing at your butt as you sit on the terlit.

My old retic. python got out one night and coiled around my leg while I was sleeping. It was pretty cold in the house and they have mostly thermal vision. To him I was a huge lump of warmth surrounded by cold. I don't think he was happy when I peeled him off and put him back in his cage. And retic. pythons are tempermental even when you don't irritate them.

Hugh I think you did the right thing..
and agree with Rick as well..learn whats out there..
but if it's in the bedroom,dark and slithering..it's toast.
Are you a burglar or are you lost..
in my house I make the rules...bang!

last fall,
wife goes to get some firewood, screams ,I run out, baby-rattler perched almost eye level to her, drop it I said.. I want to stomp it..'don't kill it' and while discussing it's fate ..
it slithered of into neighbors yard.
women..

Rika

Rick, you misunderstand, cat eats varmints, snake has no grub, looks elsewhere for dinner.

Copperhead does not have big triangular shaped head. My wife could tell you how nasty they are, as she was bitten by one. They are not indigenous to Cali though. Killed one in my house, several in neighbor's house in Tejas

Oh, really?

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Snake in house = dead snake. Last time I checked, they're not exactly endangered.

unless, it was obviously a harmless snake, i would have done the same thing. imagine trying to sleep if you lose that thing in the house somewhere, while looking it up in some reptile website. no thanks.

i heard that rattle snakes are not rattling anymore. some dont even have the rattles. evolution or something.

This summer I had 30 or 40 brown recluses in the house I rent. Whoever cut the wall for the aircon lines left a 1" gap all the way around - spider highway from the outside. They were everywhere! Basement, kitchen, upstairs, bedroom.

I was away for a couple nights and came in to the house in July - it was 82 degrees inside and it was recluse party time!

They're all gone now. I bugbombed and then a week or two later, the exterminator came in to finish them off.

Found this in my garage last year
1st called the kids for a camera then picked him and let im loose in the back yard.

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I would have shut the door if it was a rattle snake.

It got in because my 79 y/o mother in law, who lives with us can't seem to get her act together to keep the sliding door in her room close for her rat dog. I think I'm going to get one of those doggie doors for the sliding door.