I Almost Stepped On A Snake In The Hallway...........

[Mourningdove]

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I wish I knew how it got in

dh has a notion they can come up through our drains from under the house? Is that even possible?

 

[StoneBridge Farm]

OK... and I thought I was freaking when a rat got in over the winter!!!!

 

[Mourningdove]

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When I called my mom and told her about this snake I told her that I thought it looked alot like a rattler, she said it was probably a type of king snake. I have been trying to research snakes in Alabama and have found no king snakes that have a cream to light color with black patches all over it and a white underneath, I didn't think to grab the camera I was trying to avoid it. I can say it was making a noise kinda like a growling sound? that dhs friend and I both heard from the kitchen. Dh said it didn't have a rattler. So I honestly don't know what it could have been. Maybe I need pics to help identify it?

 

[Mourningdove]

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This is what I got from your story,

Cheri

yes he was freaked out and wouldn't go look at it

 

[blossom hen]

Understand how you feel. Years ago, we had a cotton mouth in the hall and it just went right on into the bathroom; made itself at home on the counter by the sink! DS #1 speared it with a frog gig and got it outside. This was around 2 AM and I spent the rest of the night scrubbing everything with bleach water! For years, there was a light burning in the hall and the bathroom every night. I was looking for it's mate. (We think it came in through the dryer vent because the next time I started to dry clothes, we realized the hose was knocked loose from the wall.)

 

[Davaroo]

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I wish I knew how it got in

dh has a notion they can come up through our drains from under the house? Is that even possible?

From within the drain pipes - I doubt it. From around the drains, yes. The drain pipes can lead up into the floor/subfloor and so provide a way in.

 

[kitkatbahr]

My first thought was oh, gosh, I hope it wasn't looking for a place to have babies!!!!!! Uggh. Snakes are creepy! I don't mind the nonvenomous ones, as I know they are good to have around, but they still give me chills.

When I was a kid, I remember finding a snake in the house (we live in Florida). It was a small snake, with a pattern on it. Don't think it was venomous. My mom got rid of it. But, it was really, really scary knowing that it found a way to get in. But, back then, our house was a big, not well made, house. It had been moved from in town, out to where we bought it from. We had no heat, no air, 32 windows, even though it wasn't that big of a house, no insulation, lots of cracks around the windows and in the floors (wooden floors). It was like a big, ole drafty barn, but it was all we could afford. Lots of places for critters to come in though!

We had snakes outside ALL the time! Even though we had cats and dogs. My sister and I were walking up the driveway one day, after school (dirt driveway) and she almost stepped on a snake. I saw it and screamed! It wasn't venemous, but it was just laying there sunning itself! It blended in to the dirt really well.

I remember a copper head in a tree we were climbing. A rattle snake in the field out behind our garden. Lots of rattlesnakes all over, but that was the closest one. We were out picking blackberries and there it was!

We had a HUGE indigo snake that lived in our yard for years and years. My dad always said it was good to have around cause it kept other snakes away. We also had black snakes. It wasn't unusual to step outside to bring the clothes in off the line and see a snake slither by! Eeeeekkkks! Seems like we had a lot of snakes, anyway, so without it, there probably would have been more!!

Snakes were just a way of life. Thinking back on it, my mom must have freaked out every time we set food outside the door! I know I would, now, as a mom! Thankfully, we rarely see any snakes where we live now.

I hate roaches, too! LOL

Glad you were not bit. I wonder what kind it was...

Kathy

 

[purr]

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but best of all they eat other snakes!!!!!

 

[theOEGBman]

I'm thinking you had a bull snake! I know they can be vocal, LOL. I'll search a bit more when I get online. I want to find a snake! I found a dead one in the road yesterday, but that's no fun.

 

[Emzyyy]

My dogs were rolling on something one day and I could see from inside it was flailing around so I ran outside because it looked like a baby bird, when I got there it was about 4 or 5 feet long black with yellow stripes and looked like piano keys on the belly. I picked him up he was super mellow the dogs had done nothing to him, I took him to a local pet shop to see what he was and I think they said a kind of king snake but I don't remb it was awhile back and anyway we went to Walmart afterwards and it was super hott in the car and I didn't want to leave him in there so I wrapped him around my wrist and walked in and no one noticed even when I handed the person the money I guess they thought it was a gaudy bracelett.