snake in the kitchen - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Raven · 06-05-2007, 07:02 AM

i went to make my wife a cup of coffee this morning only to come face to face with a 30 inch milk snake coming across the kitchen floor. Now i like snakes of course, but after living in the southwest and having had many small rattlers get into the house it startled me just the same.....(they look like a rattle snake a bit)

so i had to dismantle the base board heater and move stuff to eventually steer it into a bird net and then i released it....outside.
(now its time to conquer the dust bunnies)

the funny part was.............and i had a good laugh over this....
was while my wife was still a bit freaked out reaching for some thing up on the food shelf i quickly said... there's another one !!! and then my wife let out a shreik

and did this little hop into the air....

ohhh ,it was so funny

.....i doubled over laughing so hard....
of course it was mean... but i just couldn't resist.
As she always gets me on April fools day...so it was payback time.... heh heh heh

BigFish · 06-05-2007, 07:20 AM

Should have killed it and ate it....hear they taste like plover!

ThomCat · 06-05-2007, 07:23 AM

I would have had to enter the under garment protection program if it was my kitchen!

Smokey14 · 06-05-2007, 07:44 AM

do you have a crawl space under your kitchen? Usually were you find 1 you can find many. They tend to sleep in small groups during cool weather. Look around your foundation for brush or vegetation against the house. That's were they'll be on early cool mornings.
Having a good laugh on your spouse is the hole reason for getting married. My wife screams better than anyone I know.

Raven · 06-05-2007, 08:25 AM

i don't have one under my kitchen ..but i do under my back porch....
smokey14.... i leave my celler bulked open to ventilate the cellar and often see snakes...it's a stone foundation with many holes in it...

one day...underneath the oil burner tank i noticed what i thought was a worm tangled in a spider web and it was a baby (just hatched) milk snake
less than 3" inches long... struggling to get free... and i gave it a helping hand.... and re -released it into a hole in the cellar to over winter.

MakoMike · 06-05-2007, 11:23 AM

Where are you located? I've only found Garter, DeKay's and blacksnakes around my property in Exeter.

Raven · 06-05-2007, 12:01 PM

where am i

forty miles north of your position on the webster line next to 395

we had one of those milk snakes in another house that was 6 feet long
at least.... and never having see one before, i thought it was a boa constrictor that got loose... we were rehabbing the place and it was up
on top of the wall looking down at us.... when we ripped off the wall covering. very strange. i guess they like houses...

Gloucester2 · 06-05-2007, 12:50 PM

Not one word of exageration . . . the day after I found one of those effing things in my house the For Sale sign would be on the front lawn

I DON'T DO SNAKES, NOT NO WAY, NOT NO HOW

UserRemoved1 · 06-05-2007, 01:15 PM

If that snake was in my house there would be shovel marks in the floor.

BrianS · 06-05-2007, 01:36 PM

what a beauty!

would make a great pet..

i miss all my snakes... i had over 30 of them in the house at one point... then my friend got bit in the face by my 12' burmese, and my wife moved in, so they all had to go...

BW from AZ · 06-05-2007, 02:15 PM

My grandfather thought snakes were like land.... to be subdevided. I saves many snakes lives.

Jenn · 06-05-2007, 05:50 PM

how many would you need to make a pair of boooooots........

jbuck · 06-05-2007, 06:16 PM

Looks like bait to me!!!

spence · 06-05-2007, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Raven

Now i like snakes of course, but after living in the southwest and having had many small rattlers get into the house it startled me just the same.....(they look like a rattle snake a bit)

I believe milk snakes will mimick the rattle snake and vibrate the tail as well, they're pretty tough snakes.

Very handsome snake though.

-spence

Katie · 06-05-2007, 07:23 PM

if that was in my house i wouldnt be alive right now... i have a deadly fear of snakes. i can handle anything else pretty much.. snakes.. forgettaboutit

NeedaKeepah · 06-05-2007, 08:22 PM

Could you rig it like an eel? lol

"I hate snakes" - Indiana Jones ( and me )

MakoMike · 06-06-2007, 11:38 AM

I'd love to find some on my property, I'd probably grab some smaller ones and keep them as pets.

Raven · 06-06-2007, 12:21 PM

what size are you thinking would be good.... to have? 12 " 18 " 24 "

let me know and i'll save one for ya. (milk snake)

because i was a wild child out west...
i once unscrewed a telephone booth bi-fold door and converted it into a snake cage....

and had it right next to my bed.... heh heh ...
it was cool lookin..

my girlfriend wasn't to thrilled though..... lol

Raven · 06-06-2007, 12:32 PM

if you'll think about it.... a snake is nothing more
than a legless lizard that grew a longer tail so
it could get easier forward motion....

some snakes do scare me though ...water moccasins
and Cobra's because they come right after you
chasing after you...
(most all other snakes just want to get away from you)

when i was in day camp as a kid...(water moccasin)
i experienced this...( i was in a stream getting frogs for the pet owl)
it came after me...i ran...and with an incredible rush of adrenalin i jumped
straight up onto a roof of a building and i wasn't coming down.

the camp counselor kept asking me how the heck did i get up there?
then he called all the other counselors to come see the kid
who jumped up to the roof....and they all said: "no way "
"impossible..." but i did it...

MakoMike · 06-06-2007, 02:38 PM

Any of those sized would be good. 18 or 24 might be better than 12 as I wouldn't have to screw around with getting pinkies for it.

Raven · 06-06-2007, 03:55 PM

noted

i'll keep my eye peeled for a looker...

stripersnipr · 06-06-2007, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Raven

noted

i'll keep my eye peeled for a looker...

I'll takes it brother or sister if you could wrangle up two.

spence · 06-06-2007, 04:37 PM

If I remember from my snake wrangling days, milk snakes don't make the best pets unless you can get them very young. They've got a mean streak them snakes do.

-spence

animal · 06-06-2007, 08:17 PM

That's a Corn Snake,not a Milk.

spence · 06-06-2007, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by animal

That's a Corn Snake,not a Milk.

You know, you're probably right. I thought it was the photo at first but the markings are corn. Not of them up this far north...

Certainly could be.

-spence

Squid kids Dad · 06-06-2007, 08:31 PM

I dont care what kind of snake it is..It's still a freaking snake

BrianS · 06-06-2007, 08:57 PM

my babies!

more of my babies!

I also had Bob... he was a savannah monitor

The guineapig and iguana were best friends... no lie.

fishpoopoo · 06-07-2007, 08:34 AM

snakes are wonderful to have around, especially if you want to keep the local rodent population under control. glad you released it raven.

Raven · 06-07-2007, 08:45 AM

i had a 1/2 dozen twelve inch long fence lizards in my desert house.....
i caught them with an antique cane pole with a teensy fly and you had too stalk them then drift the fly by their nose without them seeing the rod...

and you could always get them unless their eyes were closed

eventually they got loose in the house...then they came and went as they pleased knowling that if they visited i had plenty of crickets and grasshoppers waiting for them... they would face you and kind of do a hypnotic sway back and forth then strike your hand to grab the grasshopper from your fingers... very similar to being bitten by a snake..
and i never quite got used to that... but man i'd stuff those lizards.

MakoMike · 06-07-2007, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Raven

noted

i'll keep my eye peeled for a looker...

Thanks!