O/T I AM NOT AMUSED!

About two months ago I cleaned out the garage. We had a mouse problem and it was time to clean up. What I didn"t know was we also had a snake. Long story short, snake got pounded with a piece of molding and evicted.

The washer and dryer are in the garage right next to the walk through door. Tonight I went out to put a load of clothes in the washer and another snake slithered across the top of the dryer.

I WAS NOT AMUSED.

Don"t know where this one went, no time to grab anything to try to kill it. Have a feeling it crawled under the dryer.

We"ve lived in this house 19 yrs and up till now, I"ve seen one snake out in the back yard. Now I"ve had 2 in 2 months. Like I said, I am not amused.

Question - is there anyway to trap a snake?

What do you like more, snakes or mice? One will help with the other.

Stickey traps for mice- they will coil on them--What kind are they?

I have heard moth balls will keep snakes away if you can stand the smell they give off.

Simple Nancy - Have James do the wash!

James2
PS: Hope the wife don't see this

I'll take mice over snakes any day. Mice I can trap.

Of course you aren't amused, few women like snakes, however your mouse problem causes the snake problem. Get rid the mice and your snake problem cures itself. Good luck....
PS. Believe me you don't have just a couple of mice or snakes wouldn't be coming in where they normally don't.

I guess doing a load of wash attracts them. Huh, who"da figured that?

You better hope I don't see this!

Most of the time I do wash my own clothes; basic survival instincts from the <s>failed</s> first marriage.

Snake is no problem; all I need is a sledge hammer and a 5 gallon can of gas!

Been watching my Red Green self-help videos along with 3 Stooges movies on snakes.

Sorry about that; forgot to change names.

And then the fight started . . .

Nancy. 95% of snakes are not a threat to humans, They are a farmer's friend. Avoid the poisinous types but let them all live. Do a little research and read how much they can help you. You can beat this phobia with a little education. You and James are excellent land stewards and this is part of it.

Gordo

spread a little salt arond the very edge of the house keeps the snakes out but not the mice

Yeah, and the salt will make the mice tastier for the snakes! Definitely a win win.

I had a Austalian Shepard Dog that was death on snakes. he could smell them and just went nuts till he found them an killed them. I do not know how he did it but all of a sudden he would make his move and the head would fly one way an the body another. Two times he saved us from a snake by going in the house before us. They were Copperheads. We were burning a lot of brush piles and the snake come out of them.
gitrib

LOL unless it rattles or has fangs it is a friend and you want it around. Ya O know mice/snakes and women do not mix but hey believe me a snake is there because you have mice or rats or some other thing you do not want. Or maybe your chicken are laying eggs in there. Sorry I believe in the natural life and we all have to live on this planet and yep you have to learn to dance. But do not dance on the ones with them fangs

True story. Years back when I lived in Illinois, I lived in town. One night I'd just gone to bed, shut out the lights and was about to fall asleep, but I heard some scratching that made me open my eyes. Now, its dark and I'm out of bed walking slowly and listening and it was coming from a corner in my bedroom, so I turned on a light and it stopped. Well, the only thing in that corner was a guitar amplifier, so I leaned it over and looked in it, and there was a mouse. That mouse caught me in a good mood, because I picked up the amp and carried it to the front door, looked out and about and no one was around and no cars coming down the street, so I carried that mouse and amp down to the end of my driveway, barefoot and in my boxer shorts, and dumped the mouse out into the street. That little son of a gun ran right past my foot, up my double wide concrete driveway, bounced off of my garage door, and then into my garage where the door met the framing. I WAS NOT AMUSED. NOPE, NOT AMUSED AT ALL STANDING DOWN BY THE STREET BAREFOOT IN MY BOXERS HOLDING A GUITAR AMP.

I don't remember how I eventually got even with that mouse. Might've been a shotgun. Might've been a bow and arrow. I honestly don't remember how I got even with that mouse, but I did. I was not amused with that mouse in my house while I stood down by the street in my boxers.

You know what else is not amusing? Those entry door locks that open from the inside without unlocking them. Know the ones I'm talking about? You lock them from the inside so no one can get in from the outside, but you don't need to unlock them from the inside to turn the door knob to get outside. Imagine that its morning, you're in your boxers, and you set the garbage on the sidewalk out to your driveway, and you look out the door first to make sure no one's around, and you open the door, step out to set the garbage out...and instinctively pull the door shut behind you, and as you hear it click shut, you remember that you didn't unlock the door before you walked out in your boxers and are now on the other side of a locked door knob. That's not amusing either. That will cause you to go to Home Depot and buy new door locks to replace your other new door locks, but this time the kind where you have to unlock them to open the door so that you don't lock yourself outside on the front door stoop in your boxers in broad daylight...again. Amusing now? Oh sure, but not at the time my neighbors or me.

Mark

Mouse problem is over. Haven't had a mouse in the trap for nearly a month. Hope the thing was just cruising through.

You're right few women like snakes. I don't mind them too much out in the open. But not in the garage especially since the garage is attached to the house.

I won't bother a non-poisonous snake out at the barn, in the pasture, even in the backyard.

I flat won't tolerate one, poisonous or not, in the garage because the garage is attached to the house.

P.S. This is amusing. I went out to put the laundry in the dryer. Took my broom just in case (Don't mess with a woman with a broom. A broom can be used for many things besides sweeping the floor.) I was being very cautious. Big June bug hit me in the leg. Bet I jumped two feet.

Question - is there anyway to trap a snake?

Yes there is! I usually just bend over and pick them up. Works every time.

My son was in Thailand for jungle training . Thai Marines brought out a big basket . Beat it with sticks . opened it up , full of Cobras . They showed guys how to catch them by hand . Told them if got bit they had 30 min and it's 45 for medivac . Got pic of son holding 10 ft cobra he caught .

This looks like this would be a humane way .
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If it's a bullsnake (or a rattler for that matter) it will move on when you eliminate the mice.

Well the good news is you shouldn't have any mice! But I've been told to put moth balls around, the snakes don't care for the smell. Good Luck Mike

make sure you have all snakes out then outline your garage outside that is with hydrated lime snakes will not cross it puts them in a premature shed and they die of course you have to redo the line everytime it rains

I'd rather have the harmless snake than the mice its after.Get rid of the mice and the snake will leave on its own accord for lack of a food supply

Nancy, one morning late last winter I came downstairs and nearly stepped on a snake that was pretty numb with cold. I got a trap from Snake Guard. Didn't end up using it but it appears that it should work.

Me too and last year I had a snake in the toilet tank in the bathroom of the house and found two others in that same bathroom in the sink.

Nancy,

You wern't camping at Black Water Falls, WV back in 1994 or 1995 were you? Wife and I were there and a skunk came through the camp looking for food. Wondered over to the next site and we heard a woman shreak!!!.

"Honey, a skunk!!! Get the broom."

Old said "But do not dance on the ones with them fangs"

Are you talking snakes now or women?

This is one reason I like Michigan, not too many snakes that you have to worry about.

Rick

I live in Western NY and we only have snake weather maybe five months a year on average. We rely on the natural presence of skunks around here to control rodents. Generally see them other than the harshest parts of winter. Just saw one up close walking home from my parents last night. Did not see him till I was about three feet away. Kept walking at an even pace and it did not spray.
My father always said the thing rats have to most fear of is a mother skunk with new offspring. Tenacious.
By the way I prefer any snakes in the area to be down by the creek which generally is not a problem. Never seen anything larger than a garter up by the buildings here.

Go to the grocery store and purchase a sleeve of whole garlic. Put the garlic cloves out around the inside perimeter of the garage. Snakes will not come back.

Snake don't SMELL, there are glands on their tongue to since their pray..

House where I grew up had a garter snake "mating pit" nearby. Nothing like seeing a writhing mass of over 100 intertwined snakes in mating bliss after they emerge from their dens in the spring. The neighbors dog loved to roll over them.

Nancy, Take it from a West Texas raised boy, keep several cats around and don't over feed them. Saw seven cats take on a 6 ft rattler in the flower bed. Watched them stalk it like a pride of lions. You know one moves one foot at a time on the left and when the snake turns to look at it, another moves in from the right. I was too impatient to wait for the end result. A load of #6 ruined the party. What can I say, I was young and impatient. Know better now.

My 86 year old father-in-law has a snake phobia that will eventually be the death of him. He says he's doing the "lords work" (he is very religious) by killing or trying to kill every snake on his property (160 acres). About a week ago he saw a black snake (it got away), but he's been patrolling the property every day (in 100+ degree temps) trying to find that snake. I live beside him and will not permit him to come on my property to kill snakes - he can't stand it. I will not kill any snake, under any circumstances, regardless of the snake. I think they are very cool animals. I've never had snake phobia, really can't understand those that do.

ANY snake in the house is a threat to humans.

Get some good mouser cats the snakes won't stay around with competition they'll leave. Of course you'll have to deal with the furry characters rubbing up against you every morning, now that's not so bad is it? :->