I need some more velcro because I'm sleeping on the ceiling tonight. I just found a 3ft. long bull snake inside my motor home on the floor next to my bed. Talk about having a heart attack. I'm sort of used to seeing snakes outside once in a while but inside next to my bed, that's a different story. I live in Eastern WA. and we have rattle snakes and bull snakes. Every Summer I find about 5 to 10 rattle snakes and I usually kill them with a hoe or something. The bull snakes I usually just leave them be. They keep the mice population down. The bull snakes are non-venomous and they just scare you to death. They can still bite you if you mess with them.This one I found was hissing and snapping at me for dear life but I'm sorry, this is MY house not the snake house. Those things are hard to catch and hard to kill. They look just like a rattle snake but are a little shiny and smoother and have a smaller head and no rattle. The rattle snakes have a bigger head and are a dull color but both snakes sort of have the same markings and look almost the same.I don't understand how it got in but I guess I have to go through everything now to find that small hole someplace. I'm on a mission now. I was wondering what that was crawling on me last night.(no not really).:E

Yikes.. We were just at Steamboat Rock SP, and the CG hosts came around and warned us about the rattle snakes in the CG. One was coiled up under a vehicle one morning 2 sites from us. Our son's baby sitter's husband was Park Ranger at Sun Lakes SP about 30 years ago, and invited us up to his house. He had a 6' long rattle snake in an aquarium that was as large around as my forearm. I was used to smaller Pacific rattlers that were 1/3 that size. Yikes, again.A camped with a friend's family at Alta Lake SP about 50+ years ago (I'm old) and they caught a rattle snake and a 6' long gopher snake and brought home. We used to play with that snake, until it got away from us. I can imagine some kid seeing a tail sticking out from the brush in Western WA, and pulling out that snake thinking that it was a garter snake. Yikes again.

If that were my camper there would have been lots of little holes from the snake shot in my .38. Yeah, I'd shoot indoors. I killed a rattler in my garage a few years ago. It peppered the sheet rock a bit but no big deal.

I've been incredibly lucky to have never seen a snake in all our adventures in E. Wa. But after hearing this I'll be on the lookout next time!

I'm thinking that I'm not liking snakes much anymore. We were in Thailand a couple of months ago, and on a bamboo log raft ride on the Ping River near the Golden Triangle. There was splashing and much commotion (screaming) on the raft in front of us. The guide was trying to kill a 9' long python swimming across the river (for dinner) and the UK couple on his raft wanted nothing to do with it. He failed but not for trying. I think that he lost his tip... and dinner.

Being in southern Kentucky we tend to have copperheads crawl from the farm/hay fields into the subdivisions ever more encroaching into the forests. It's not unusual for me to find copperheads on my concrete driveway from time to time all summer long. As there is a huge farm across the street from us I have been catching the little varmints for twenty years and tossing them back into the hayfield with a warning to look out for DW as she is not as kind hearted as I.

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Pangaea_Ron
Explorer
May 18, 2013
Yikes.. We were just at Steamboat Rock SP, and the CG hosts came around and warned us about the rattle snakes in the CG. One was coiled up under a vehicle one morning 2 sites from us.

Our son's baby sitter's husband was Park Ranger at Sun Lakes SP about 30 years ago, and invited us up to his house. He had a 6' long rattle snake in an aquarium that was as large around as my forearm. I was used to smaller Pacific rattlers that were 1/3 that size. Yikes, again.

A camped with a friend's family at Alta Lake SP about 50+ years ago (I'm old) and they caught a rattle snake and a 6' long gopher snake and brought home. We used to play with that snake, until it got away from us. I can imagine some kid seeing a tail sticking out from the brush in Western WA, and pulling out that snake thinking that it was a garter snake. Yikes again.
KD4UPL
Explorer
May 18, 2013
If that were my camper there would have been lots of little holes from the snake shot in my .38. Yeah, I'd shoot indoors. I killed a rattler in my garage a few years ago. It peppered the sheet rock a bit but no big deal.
ScottG
Nomad
May 18, 2013
I've been incredibly lucky to have never seen a snake in all our adventures in E. Wa.
But after hearing this I'll be on the lookout next time!
Pangaea_Ron
Explorer
May 18, 2013
I'm thinking that I'm not liking snakes much anymore. We were in Thailand a couple of months ago, and on a bamboo log raft ride on the Ping River near the Golden Triangle. There was splashing and much commotion (screaming) on the raft in front of us. The guide was trying to kill a 9' long python swimming across the river (for dinner) and the UK couple on his raft wanted nothing to do with it. He failed but not for trying. I think that he lost his tip... and dinner.
noe-place
Explorer
May 18, 2013
Being in southern Kentucky we tend to have copperheads crawl from the farm/hay fields into the subdivisions ever more encroaching into the forests. It's not unusual for me to find copperheads on my concrete driveway from time to time all summer long. As there is a huge farm across the street from us I have been catching the little varmints for twenty years and tossing them back into the hayfield with a warning to look out for DW as she is not as kind hearted as I.
W4RLR
Explorer
May 18, 2013
I have five acres on top of the mountain near Monteagle. Haven't seen copperheads (yet) but have seen several rattlesnakes. One I nearly stepped on. I have a LONG pole with a net on the end and I move the snake to another part of the property. Even the poisonous ones serve a purpose in keeping the rodent population down. That being said, I don't keep the shed doors open and ditto on the compartments in the RV. To the OP, that snake found a way in somehow, probably from the underbelly of the RV. Rats and mice like to nest in the insulation, and where there are rats and mice, you will find snakes.
Tothill
Explorer
May 18, 2013
No Rattle Snakes here, but lots of Garter Snakes.

Garter Snakes are good to have around. As a child I used to play with them at my grandmother's house. There was a huge colony (what do you call a group of snakes?) living under and around her house. There were two big ones that were around for years. Biggest Garter Snakes I have ever seen. Each was about 3 feet long and about 2 inches in diameter.

The kittens (I do not know which one), brought in a Garter Snake earlier this week. I walked into the laundry room and there it was on the floor. Alive and uninjured. I just picked it up and put it back outside.

We stayed at http://www.campingosoyoos.com/ a few years ago. There are rattle snakes in the camp ground. If a camper found one, you just had to notify the campground staff and they would catch and more it. No need to kill them.
jetboater454
Explorer
May 18, 2013
Well at least he was next to your bed....and not in it :B

I don't think the ceiling would stay up if your fastened to it though.
Jim_Shoe
Explorer
May 18, 2013
Not all snakes are poisonous, but to me, they're all deadly. Scared to death. When I was a kid, I was pulling a barn door open that was on an overhead track. A black snake fell out of the track and landed across my arm.
Since then, I've entered into an agreement with all the snakes in the world. If they stay away from me, I'll leave them alone. That means staying away from tall grass and wood piles, and they have to stay away from my house and RV. So far, we've both lived up to the agreement.
I've always believed that if I stepped on a bear's paw, I pretty much deserve to be mauled, but I could step on a snake entirely by accident with no malice in my heart.
photonanax3
Explorer
May 18, 2013
I think that would pretty much end my camping days if I came across any kind of snake in my portable abode and I certainly wouldn't be sleeping in the camper if there was a snake in it.

I've been terrified of snakes for as long as I can remember and this is the one thing that would probably stop me from serious backwoods and off trail hiking.

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