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venomous snakes in houses
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by scaredofserpents on June 16, 2005
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my mother lives in a small trailer and found a baby snake in her house. At first she thought she had scared it away. That maybe it had left the same way it had come in. So she patched every nook and cranny she could find. she saw it again two weeks later. She put lime out side and underneath the house, moth balls inside the house, and she even set out a glue trap and baited it with a small mouse. And she still hasn't caught it. My little brother is a bit of a bookworm and he has all of this books on snakes and other animals. They said that it looked like a baby timber rattlesnake. They said that his body looked like a toothpick compared to its head. It must be full of poison? I need help or I am never going to my mothers house again!
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by Phobos on June 16, 2005
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Hi:
Could be a young Rattler but they are not know for the type of behaivior you describe. There are many members of SHHS that live in GA that would most likely comme out and have a look. Some thing to do is clean up all the stuff lying around outside the trailer that makes a good hiding place for rodents. You might also try to eliminate as much of the rodent population as possible, no food, no snakes.
Try contacting Snakegetters.com, they will also come out and try to find it and safely remove it.
Remember that snakes are not in the least bit interested in encountering humans. They will retreat if given the chance.
Good Luck
Al
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by ALA_herp31 on June 16, 2005
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I don’t know about ya’ll, but I have heard of Corn Snakes getting into peoples house and setting up residence because of the amount of food available. Now, I don’t know if it would be this Species or not, but I would venture to say its probably a Rat Snake or Corn Snake, could also be a Kingsnake. I am just offering possibilities here, so don’t take this to be the exact truth of what is there..................Be safe ya’ll, happy herping Wally
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by pitbulllady on June 17, 2005
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I get called out several times a year during the warmer months to remove snakes from buildings such as barns and houses, and with just two exceptions, every single one(and that's been literally hundreds of snakes over the years)has been some member of the Ratsnake family, either a Cornsnake or a Black Ratsnake. Juvenile Ratsnakes do not look much like adults, and DO have a larger head in proportion to their bodies than adults do. I've never seen any venomous native snake, unless it was starved, that I would describe as having a body like a "toothpick". I've never seen a venomous snake in a house, unless it was deliberately being kept there. The two exceptions to the Ratsnake-in-the-house were a baby Eastern Hognose and an adult Redbelly Snake. The Hognose quite possibly had been "smuggled" in intentionally by a 12-year-old son trying to keep a pet snake against his parents' wishes, and the Redbelly probably had stowed away in a child's book bag that was left outside in the bushes overnight(also intentionally, to keep from doing homework)and then brought inside that following morning, since the snake was discovered within a few inches of the bookbag. I'm not saying it isn't possible for a venomous snake to get inside a home, but it appears to be something very rare, while members of the Ratsnake clan, being excellent climbers, readily enter buildings. I'd put my money on it being a Ratsnake in this instance, too.
pitbulllady
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