snake skin

[P3TC]

Found an 18 inch snake skin under the dining table that has been shed in the last month.

Leaving in the next 2 days for a short trip, havent told the DW.

I think it will leave once it wipes out whatever it was dining on (mice).

What would you do?

[GMandJM]

Mr.Mark wrote:

GMandJM wrote:
I just asked G-half if he'd tell me if he found a snake in the camper. He said I'd be able to tell from the screaming and him scrambling for the door. (It'd be a race, actually. We have copperheads here.)

We had a snake stuck to a glue board in our garage after the glue board caught a shrew that was probably after the spiders on the board.

I can't recommend using glue boards to find/catch snakes. But if you DO, be prepared to peel it off the glue board to return it to the wild. It is NOT fun for any entity concerned.

We also use the glue traps in the garage. We have never caught a snake but I have caught a couple of birds when I had the garage door open. The house is on a mountain side which is in 'critter' territory.

In the past, we had problems with mice coming in the garage and they don't mix well with engine wires....hence the glue traps.

The way to remove a critter that doesn't belong on the trap is to put vegetable oil on it, the oil neutralizes the glue.

MM.

Good idea with the veggie oil. Wish I had thought of that. Called the local Fish and Game guy and he said "Just grab it behind the head and peel it off the glue board". I felt bad about it. The garage door was left open by accident.

We don't usually use glue boards since we don't want to catch the little lizards we have around (and the lizards are probably why we have the snakes around). But we had a batch of brown recluse spiders hatch out and hedge apples and sprays weren't working.

I'll keep the veggie oil thing in mind. Thanks.

[rolling_rhoda]

Snake Control demo

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[Mr_Mark1]

GMandJM wrote:
I just asked G-half if he'd tell me if he found a snake in the camper. He said I'd be able to tell from the screaming and him scrambling for the door. (It'd be a race, actually. We have copperheads here.)

We had a snake stuck to a glue board in our garage after the glue board caught a shrew that was probably after the spiders on the board.

I can't recommend using glue boards to find/catch snakes. But if you DO, be prepared to peel it off the glue board to return it to the wild. It is NOT fun for any entity concerned.

We also use the glue traps in the garage. We have never caught a snake but I have caught a couple of birds when I had the garage door open. The house is on a mountain side which is in 'critter' territory.

In the past, we had problems with mice coming in the garage and they don't mix well with engine wires....hence the glue traps.

The way to remove a critter that doesn't belong on the trap is to put vegetable oil on it, the oil neutralizes the glue.

MM.

[Big_Blue]

Practice saying, "what snake?"

[mtofell1]

kickstart wrote:
Use to get snakes from the woodpile and put them in the crawl space under the house

I spend a good portion of my working life crawling under houses and this will keep me up tonight 🙂

As for the OP, I think I'd have to sell the coach 🙂 🙂

[prstlk]

Please refer to the bill Murray method in Caddy Shack.

[jolooote]

They sell 'Critter deterant' granules everywhere. Spread some around.

[GMandJM]

I just asked G-half if he'd tell me if he found a snake in the camper. He said I'd be able to tell from the screaming and him scrambling for the door. (It'd be a race, actually. We have copperheads here.)

We had a snake stuck to a glue board in our garage after the glue board caught a shrew that was probably after the spiders on the board.

I can't recommend using glue boards to find/catch snakes. But if you DO, be prepared to peel it off the glue board to return it to the wild. It is NOT fun for any entity concerned.

[westernrvparkow]

P3TC wrote:
Found an 18 inch snake skin under the dining table that has been shed in the last month.

Leaving in the next 2 days for a short trip, havent told the DW.

I think it will leave once it wipes out whatever it was dining on (mice).

What would you do?

The good news is since snakes shed their skin to grow, you are now probably looking for a 24" snake. That will give him a lot less places to hide. And you can tell your wife there is absolutely no chance that there is still an 18 inch snake in the trailer.

[MagillaGorilla]

I would need to decide if i ever wanted to use the MH again. If I wanted to I would need to keep my mouth shut and then do everything I could to make sure the snake was gone.

If I never want to camp again, I would let my wife know about the snake skin. I can say this 100% certainty that if my wife knew there was a snake in our MH at any time in the entire history of the MH (going all the way back to when it was being built) she would NEVER GET IN IT AGAIN.

[JumboJet]

I pulled this from my neighbor's garage 3 weeks ago.



The poor thing was tangled in a net they use to cover their goldfish pond in the Fall.

She came home, opened the garage door and saw about 6' of snake frantically writhing in the corner of her garage.

It took a pair of scissors and her holding the snake's body for me to cut it free. I then turned the appreciative reptile loose in the woods between our houses.

[kickstart]

Use to get snakes from the woodpile and put them in the crawl space under the house, the only problem I wasn't telling the DW, had to stop when she opened a cabinet and a 2 ft. Blacksnake was looking at her,a lot of cussing but nothing serious, but I do just put them in the garage now.

[Executive45]

I can picture two scenarios....one is you driving down the road and the thing slithers out across the dash and you spot it and the other is you driving down the road and it slithers out across the dash and your WIFE sees it before you do....:E...Dennis

Watch this video below. While watching, note the guy when he spots his stowaway, and whether he shares it with his passenger....D

Stowaway

[supercub]

I get a FOR SALE sign, RV for sale CHEAP

[MrWizard]

Ex girl friend used to yell for me every time HER cat carried in a lizard it had caught