Well, what excitement we had. I got up to answer the phone---- wrong number, Eva Screams "THERE IS A SNAKE IN THE HOUSE" and yes there was! In our book case he poked his head out!:? I called 911 to find out what to do, they fire department called a company. In the mean time all the kids are crying panicing and dramatizing on the couch, Except Donald, he wanted to use his light sabor to slash it in half. (but then he got on my lap and I felt his bony little but shake in fear and cold.) Our BRAVE cat stood watch, while DH stood with a garden ho ready to defend us. The guy came, and after searching for a few minutes and trying to back off the cat, he got the little booger, A BULL SNAKE, so it wasn't poisonus, but they do eat rattle snakes and QUAIL EGGS (we have a nest of quails in our front yard!) ICK ICK ICK! I'm going to bed now, DH and I are betting on which kid will be in our bed first.:roll:
Oh wow! I am so glad it wasn't poisonous but I think it would have given me a heart attack! I hope you and the kids were able to sleep. Beth
!!! What an adventure! I have to share your story with Handsome when he gets home from work. Since he was a child he has been terrified of reptiles. I am the critter catcher around here. Thanks for sharing! I like these stories. Patty
Oh! Amy I am so sorry, I hope and pray you all sleep ok last night. How scary, I think I would of left the house until they got that thing.
Oh my! I would have lost it. I don't mind pet snakes, but i'd be freaked out if one was in my house that wasn't domestic. Yikes!
We all slept......... 2 youngest were in our bed all night, and our cat treid her best to be there too.--- she was pretty shaken up. The guy came said he is in our neighborhood quite often getting rattle snakes, he told us if we ever see a green olive coloer snake evacute, but leave one person to keep an eye on it, if we get bit we live too far away from the hospital to recover......... that didn't help much. I have to walk past a bush he recamends we cut down every time I have to go outside to the freezer........ yeah like I'll be doing that until DH chopps it down, --- the kids had thought they heard a snake there before. the Bull snake makes a sound just like a rattler with its hissing toungue.
Yipes! Do you have any idea how it got into your home??? BTW, the stun of a stun gun will change the poisonous protein of a snake's bite (or a brown spider bite) into a harmless protein. A cattle prod will do the same thing, but it has a larger charge and stings a little more. We have both rattlers & the poisonous brown recluse spider in W.Kansas, & this method has saved a number of complications from the spider bites, including a woman whose leg had become so bad her doctor was considering amputation. Even so, I would not be happy to find any type of snake in the house!
If I had any clue how to do a picture attachment, I would show ONE of the ones we killed this summer-a five foot long rattler. Joyce and two friends were out on my front porch when she went in and very calmly informed her dad there was a snake in the driveway. We took a picture of my hubby holding it up along side Joyce to show how long it was. A few weeks later during a storm I hear my hubby yelling for my son. I'm thinking he saw a funnel cloud and it turned out to be a several foot long water moccasin. Thank goodness I've never seen one in the house, just field mice! Jennifer
Mac pretended he wasn't, but I know how much he HATES snakes, he had a water maccisan crawl over him in vietnam, he couldn't move!
Wow! My dd would have to find another place to live. She wouldn't stay another minute in a house that once had a snake in it. LOL.
Aww you just HAD to show up my Lizard story! ROFL. Really though I'm glad they got it out and it wasn't poisonus. I'd have freaked out. I don't think I'd have called 911. But then I don't know WHO I'd have called.
yeah Syele, I was thinking of your punie little lizzard Just kidding..... I wouldn't want that in my house either but I definatly didn't want the snake especially one that mimics a rattle snake.
hmmmmmmmm I think both of them are gross but cockroaches are gross too. GROSSSSSSSSSSSSSS hate them things. My dd's tell all our family up north they are so big down south you can put a saddle on them and ride them.
okay am I th eonly one who would have been looking it up on the internet? I would have called 911 then been sending one child to look it up on encyclyopedia and the other on internet to see what to do in the mean time! I would have been so excited too!
We used to get snakes inside our chicken coop (sp?). They were after the eggs and mice. Once Handsome turned around from getting eggs and a red racer was hanging from the beam of the chicken coop staring him straight in the eyes. I thought there was a girl in the chicken coop because he screamed so loud and high pitched. I know it isn't kind but I laughed. My dad raised me not to be afraid of critters because they are more afraid of me then I am of them. This theory didn't do justice for my older sisters but my sister Rosie and I have never been to afraid of snakes or spiders, unless they creaped up on us. The one place I find myself being very cautious is my parents yard. They live in Arizona and they live out in the boonies. The closest neighbor is a speck in the distance. They get so many Mojave Greens and they literally come right up to the door to sun. My dad is in the habit of carrying a little pistol with him so he can shoot one is need be. To me, although I can handle a snake without panicing, they have a few to many snakes for my liking. I always think they are going to step on one some day.
yea I know what you mean Emma#1 fan when we were AZ we seen to many of those things. We also have a friend here in Texas that lives in the counrty and the snakes her and her dh kill are something they are big ones too, cotton mouth and so on. GROSSSSSSSSSSS
We used to walk through the hills of California, only snakes we worried about were rattlers, and they would rattle so we would be still and see if we could tell where they were then go the other way. I think I learned to like them because boys used to try to make you squirm from them, but my big brother and I would go lizard chasing and catching, at least thier tails! Did you know the blue bellies will drop thier tails to get away? They are so fun! We used to find them in our bedsheets at my gramas, if we left the french doors open. I think thats where my love of french doors came from. My little grama build her own home, she was mostly a single parent, didnt remarrry until the kids were all grown, but took her hubby back a lot, so she was self sufficient! My family is full of women who were the strong ones, anyway, snakes are amazing! We had a friend that owned snakes, KING snakes! she said once they got out all you heard was this Whoosh, down the hall, lol. They had a seperate bedroom for the snakes too!
