Something you don't want to find in your laundry room (shed snakeskin)
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All I say is O.M.G.. I would have wet myself if I found that.any where near my home.As we do find copper heads near my front porch, I keep a 38/44 loaded with snake shot near the front door.
The mrs found a pair of bull snakes in the basement one morning shortly after I’d fled to save my sanity 
Wow! That will definitely get your attention.
I live in an urban greenbelt and we get an assortment of wildlife, from bunnies to bobcats, and I often wonder why we rarely see snakes.
Many years ago I used to get "brown snakes" aka the DeKay's brown snake (Storeria dekayi), a non-venomous snake so small that if it wasn't for the scales, you'd think it was an earthworm. They've disappeared and I don't know why. And I once killed a large water snake in my backyard because I thought it was venomous, but I was wrong. That's a long time ago - since then, no snakes, and a creek is nearby and water is flowing in the back alley 24/7 (it's a culvert more than it is an alley).
I live in an urban greenbelt and we get an assortment of wildlife, from bunnies to bobcats, and I often wonder why we rarely see snakes.
Many years ago I used to get "brown snakes" aka the DeKay's brown snake (Storeria dekayi), a non-venomous snake so small that if it wasn't for the scales, you'd think it was an earthworm. They've disappeared and I don't know why. And I once killed a large water snake in my backyard because I thought it was venomous, but I was wrong. That's a long time ago - since then, no snakes, and a creek is nearby and water is flowing in the back alley 24/7 (it's a culvert more than it is an alley).
LVSteve
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Wash cold, tumble dry low.
Last year I found 2 large skins in the old summer kitchen connected to my house but I have never seen the perpetrators. I have found 2 rat snakes in my house. I just take them to the basement and turn them loose.
Four years ago, I found this little fellow coiled up next to our terra-cotta statue of St. Francis, patron saint of animals. That indicated to me that this was a smart snake. I called the animal control people, who sent out a young woman who identified my visitor as a harmless rat snake. She took him away and released him at a more appropriate location, hopefully with some rodents to eat.
Go to YouTube and look up Richard Pryor's "snakes make you run into trees".
Many years ago, I found ,in the woodpile, a completely shed skin from a Milk Adder, all one piece that measured 48/34 inches!! Up here in Maine that's one BIG snake!!
Snakes are a fact of life in my part of Florida. We had a "harmless" Oak Snake that hung out on my wife's bird feeder just outside our office window. I took him off the feeder three times, taking him further and further from the house each time. He was reasonably passive when being caught. The fourth time, both the snake and I had enough. He did not want to be caught and he got nasty. The last time I bagged him up, and drove him five miles to let him go. That was the charm.
About 20 years ago, I had an incident with a Copperhead, that sent me to the hospital for five days. Being bitten was no more painful than a bee sting, but within an hours it was a study in agony, and it hurt through level III morphine. Now days I just shoot all of the pit vipers that turn up in the yard. I don't like killing them, but 'ya gots to do what 'ya gots to do. As long as they stay in the woods I don't harass them.
About 20 years ago, I had an incident with a Copperhead, that sent me to the hospital for five days. Being bitten was no more painful than a bee sting, but within an hours it was a study in agony, and it hurt through level III morphine. Now days I just shoot all of the pit vipers that turn up in the yard. I don't like killing them, but 'ya gots to do what 'ya gots to do. As long as they stay in the woods I don't harass them.
AJ
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Have Black snakes in the yard on a regular basis. The keep the rodents and other snakes away.
Was with a buddy walking on a path in a field near our homes. Came upon a Blue Racer on the path. We didn't mess with it, but for some reason he got angry with us and actually started chasing us. We finally got away from it, but at the time it scared the heck out of use.
Watched a video once that showed a bobcat walking down a forest road. Rattlesnake was sunning itself on the road. Started rattling just as the cat got even with it. The cat jumped about 10 feet past the snake. Then it turned around and after a very quick battle killed the snake. Left it in the road and kept going on its way. Don't know if it was just taking another dangerous predator out, or was just upset the snake had made him jump.
The moral? Don't want snakes? Get a bunch of bobcats.
The moral? Don't want snakes? Get a bunch of bobcats.
cherrypointmarine
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I hear you AJ . We have a retention pond on one side of our house and we have a family of black snakes living there . Like you said , they eat rodents so I say let them be . Had my phone with and caught this guy the other day , he/she is one of the smaller one's .
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