snake in NC
Posted By: scared to sleep on 2006-05-21
In Reply to: How big? Where do you live? - Misha
We are in NC. Actually, it was at my parents' house. They tried to get snake repellent but according to the directions it may make the problem worse. They ended up putting window screen netting over all of the vents just to get through the weekend so they can call the exterminator. Can't really say what kind or how big he was. It was hard to see through the vent. Any snake to me is no good. He was big enough that he was coiled up at least several times. First time I looked down and saw him his head was right at the vent and he was licking his tongue up toward/through the vent slot. Holy Moley. 
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How do you know the snake is a HE?...sm
In Florida, we have a serpentarium (sp?) where the man comes only to remove snakes....
Good luck with this!!! 
It's still a SNAKE!
I sympathize!
could be a harmless snake...nm
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To the MT with the snake in the ductwork sm
Did it ever get out so it could be caught? Or did it just disappear? It probably found its way out by whatever way it came in. I was thinking of you today, LOL. I took my 2 dogs out for a little playtime beyond the fence gate where we keep them penned in. My youngest dog, just barely a year, was sniffing the ground, jumped back, sniffed again and jumped back again. I thought maybe there was some unfamiliar animal doo-doo in the yard and went over to see what he was sniffing. Here it was a 5 feet long blue racer all curled up right in the middle of the yard, just chillin'. Of course, my son the avid snake fanatic wasn't home so I got the garden hoe and a bucket and coaxed it into the bucket and took it way out back and turned it loose over the hill. He can go find lunch elsewhere. Wasn't my favorite job but I really don't care for them in my yard. I figured he found his way in after the 3 feet high lawn was cut next door the other day. They usually breed in the previous owner's garage. 
Snake repellant
Real peppermint oil drives them off. Not the flavoring you bake with, but the real oil, sold for about $11 for a tiny jar. Put a drop on cotton ball and put it in the bush. Put a drop on some more cotton balls and throw them into bush. Should clear out the bush and the area, at least until it rains. Good luck.
selling snake oil?
So for the second time this year, "At Home Professions" has come calling to town to give their big seminar. The flood of calls to my house start coming in from people I barely know or hardly know about all the fame and fortune of being an MT. They are telling people they could start at 15 cpl and make 50K per year.  Are they even a real school? I want that job!
Nevertheless, I get the calls about how wonderful and terrific working at home is (not that it isn't, but it is hard work!), how "I listened to what they had to say and I can do that" (like it is no big deal), and basically how "easy" it is. Sigh.... I feel like I am explaining the science of building a rocket to my 5 year old who just wants to jump in and take a ride!
Yeah, snake-oil fer sure.........
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YOUR lying, cheating snake....
lied us into a war with over 3500 American SOLDIERS dead, and going on a trillion dollar cost. No wonder bridges are falling down - the U.S. has been neglecting infrastructure needs in favor of militarism for MANY decades.
That said, give the "sex lie" diatribe a rest: Nobody died when bush's predecessor lied...
Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. Even Bush admits that now.
They used the fear and outrage from 9/11 to lie about WMD in Iraq - and to then JUSTIFY invading Iraq in order to steal it's resources. Deal with it.
BOTH PARTIES are corrupt - but its the evil in office now whose lying should concern *all* patriots the most - because OUR country is in crisis - regardless of party we all should step up and demand our policies change.
As to you flip comment about knowing what's going to happen with the weather? Give that a rest, too. there is all KIND of documentation showing THIS admnistration prefers to fund FAKE wars instead of take care of the people at home. He was warned about 9/11, failing levees in New Orleans BEFORE Katrina, AND crumbling infrastructure like the BRIDGE in MN.
In fact, he CUT FUNDING FOR THE LEVEES in New Orleans THREE YEARS RUNNING before Katrina.
Please do your homework before you defend *any* administration. Don't rely on PAID radio or TV personalities to tell you what YOU need to know in order to protect YOUR country from bad administrations. They have an agenda and trust me PROPERLY informing you is not part of that agenda.
And yes, I know this thread is turning into a topic for the other board...
That is a great story. I thought you were going to say it was a snake. sm
I used to live in a big old farm house and snakes would get in occasionally. Also an owl came in through the old heater pipe. I miss the country but it would give you a little high blood pressure once in a while.
Well, I gotta' tell you, if a living snake comes my way, I'm gonna kill him. nm
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Odds are its a harmless snake, open up then vent but capture it - sm
rig up some sort of box for it to crawl into, put some food in there for it (dead mouse, whatever) and when it comes out, close up the box. Take it outside and let it go. We don't kill anything if its not poisonous, even then I don't (have a lot copperheads around here), though my DH does. My 1 neighbor kills all snakes unfortunately. Snakes are good though, they keep down the rodents. They won't bother you if you don't bother them.
Identify the snake to your local cooperative extension agent and they'll tell you what to do, if
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Champ and Addie (black labs); Mamma, Sally, and Bubba (cats); and Tom the snake (Ball Python).
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