SNAKE!!!!
04-15-2011, 02:24 PM
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I think this is the young snake I saw last fall before hibernation... He got out of the storm shelter using the board I put in for a ramp...
I usually clean out the shelter of the spiders that accumulate during fall and winter... we have a lot of Brown Recluse (Fiddleback) and they are sneakier than the snakes. The spider bites do more harm than the snakes.
I will allow the black snake to live because I don't like mice/rats in my stash.
I usually clean out the shelter of the spiders that accumulate during fall and winter... we have a lot of Brown Recluse (Fiddleback) and they are sneakier than the snakes. The spider bites do more harm than the snakes.
I will allow the black snake to live because I don't like mice/rats in my stash.
04-15-2011, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by feline fanatic
Originally Posted by Kappy
That's why I'm glad I live where I live...no poisonous ones!
Snakes don't bother me in the least if I know they are non-venomous. I can handle them and pick them up no problem. Spiders on the other hand....
Been around for over 60 years and haven't seen or heard of a rattlesnakes being around here. Do know they use to have them in North Dakota, my Dad always said that's why they have long handles on a pitch fork, so that when they tossed the wheat bundles onto the rack the snakes wouldn't be able to strike that far. Not sure if that's true or not but it makes sense. Nope don't like spiders or snakes!
04-15-2011, 06:17 PM
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Last summer we killed a 3 foot copperhead..Our yellow lab had already injured him..so my husband put him out of his misery...My dog got some venom in her eyes and it made her sick and she couldn't open her eyes for awhile...But she survived...and so did I...I am so scared of snakes...I usually don't wait around to see if they are poisonous....
04-15-2011, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Miss Priss
I have heard if you put a hemp rope around anything a snake will not cross it. Maybe one where they come in will work. I have used moth balls around basement windows. The work.
Hemp rope, would be like grass to them, probably would not even notice it...in any case the snake could smell it and it might not like the smell of new rope.
04-16-2011, 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Leota
UPDATE on Snake...
I put a 12 ft. 2x4 down and sneaky snake scrambled out as soon as he realized I wasn't gonna whack him on the head...
Bottom line.... snake is gone :D
I put a 12 ft. 2x4 down and sneaky snake scrambled out as soon as he realized I wasn't gonna whack him on the head...
Bottom line.... snake is gone :D
04-16-2011, 12:11 AM
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Ugh I can't blame you. Maybe get some young teen guys that are into snakes to get it out and take it home. I hope the snake uses the ramp and soon. Blehhhhh! I am starting to feel ill just thinking about it.
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