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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mockturtle
Explorer II
May 18, 2013
Bull snakes are BIG. While I'm not an ophidiophobe, I certainly wouldn't want to share my RV with snakes! Glad you survived the experience! (A tarantula in my rig would probably have put me over the edge).
longrider1100
Explorer
May 18, 2013
Research shows names for groups of snakes as nest, bed, den, or knot.
clikrf8
Explorer
May 19, 2013
We live in Western Washington. Just garter snakes and bullsnakes (rare) both harmless. As long as I see them first I am fine and they do keep down the slug/mice populations. We have Mr. Snake who is 2+' long and over an inch in diameter. I give him a wide berth. I did find his intact shed skin in the pea patch so he is going after the slugs.

However, we are always really careful where we walk and where we put our hands in eastern Washington. We have seen 4 rattlers there in a 6 day period, around Sun Lakes and Steamboat Rock State parks. But, in the 9 weeks we have spent in the Southwest, we have not seen any rattlers, only tarantulas.
hotsparks
Explorer
May 19, 2013
I'm still a little creeped out on finding that snake inside. I find myself turning on the light and checking the floor first before I get up. I didn't find any big holes and the best thing I could see was maybe it got in from under the shower and crawled along the water pipes. I stuffed some places with aluminum foil for a temporary quick fix. I'm going to use some spray foam and some sheet metal in a few places. I am still going to crawl under outside and look some more. A snake is the last thing I would of thought would be inside on the floor next to my bed. I hope that I never see that again. It could of just as easily been a rattle snake and I could of been bit. :E
rockportrocket
Explorer
May 19, 2013
When I encounter a snake, ANY SNAKE, they have but one place to bite me. ON THE BUTT, that's all that will be pointed at them.
larrygranny1
Explorer
May 19, 2013
Built our home in the desert outside of
EL Paso Tx. One morning the wife, a true die hard , born and raised Texan, went out the kitchen door to the patio. As she opened the screen door a BIG black snake fell on her arm!!!!!!!! Without a worn she walks over to the fence and drops it on the other side. Now I am like a lot of out there!!!!!!!!! A snake is a snake is a snake!!!!!!!!!!Then she proceeds to tell me stories of her and her sister when they were little entertaining themselves by boiling lizards and such. When asked why they moved to the "city" she response with.." my mother got tired of the rattlesnakes always coming into the house" That's Hard Core Texan!!!!
!!!!!!

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