• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Happy wild snake encounter at home thread.

kimbyra

kimbyra

cornsnake addict
Howdy folks! After all the hoo-ha, and angriness in another thread, I thought I would start a positive home/yard invasion snake experience thread.

Please tell us the stories of your encounters.

Here's mine:

I moved to South Carolina last year, into a very, shall we say - humble, abode. I wasn't there a week, when I went into the bathroom (where my snakes are), not turning on the light becasue it was day time and I tend towards being bat-like about lights, and notice on the bathroom rug in front of my bathtub the nice long shadow of a snake. I thought, "Oh no, my anery motley girl escaped." I turned on the light. It was not my snake! On the rug, stretched out and still, was a juvenile yellow rat snake. They call them chicken snakes around these parts. So I scooped her up and put her in a spare tank where I stored paper towel rolls. She didn't try to bite, just wiggled a bit. The next day I thawed her a good size mouse to eat, which she relished. Several days later I released her in the woods right behind the place. (I've moved since then.) I kinda wished I kept her, but I thought releasing her was the best thing to do. Anyway, THAT was a nice snake encounter. I thought, "South Carolina is welcoming me to the neighborhood."

Cheers.
 
Didn't someone here on the forums a couple of years back have one show up on their curtains??
Click to expand...

That would be me and Joe.

I work from home and was having my lunch in our family living area. I happened to notice something moving on the top of the window - on the inside - and yelled for Joe. He thought I was panicking about another spider in the house but I asked him if he had lost a snake...
He said no and came to see what it was. It was a wild yellow rat snake sitting on the top of the windows! Don't know how it got in the house and past our dogs, cats, and us without being noticed. For a yellow rat - he was very calm - hence he was named "mellow yellow". We kept him for a short while and then gave him to Mike (mbdorfer).

Here are some pics of him at Mike's house:
14MAR2-9.jpg


14MAR1-9.jpg


14MAR3-8.jpg
 
The first snake I found at my house was a yellow rat. I heard birds going crazy on the front yard fenceline, and went out to find this:
 

Attachments

  • snake_02_600.jpg
    snake_02_600.jpg
    138.9 KB · Views: 59
A year or so later, I was out under my big pine picking up a brush pile and found Maizey, the first corn I had ever seen. I kept him. Parasites and all!
 

Attachments

  • Me and Maize 012cr800.jpg
    Me and Maize 012cr800.jpg
    233 KB · Views: 59
A month or so later, I was weed whacking and found this little guy. Oh, a corn hatchling! But it bites like CRAZY! It turned out to be a baby black racer. I released it, since it's rare to tame one.
 

Attachments

  • racer_01sm.JPG
    racer_01sm.JPG
    203 KB · Views: 57
I relocated this young black racer from a friend's steps to my yard, and recently spotted him about a week ago, again while weed whacking. I was very pleased that he'd chosen to stay! When I first captured him, I discussed with him the possibility of becoming a pet, but he declined, vigorously. I respected his wishes.
 

Attachments

  • Black Racer 001.jpg
    Black Racer 001.jpg
    272.2 KB · Views: 56
Nanci said:
A month or so later, I was weed whacking and found this little guy. Oh, a corn hatchling! But it bites like CRAZY! It turned out to be a baby black racer. I released it, since it's rare to tame one.
Click to expand...


Wooooooooo, he even has a mean look in his eye :)
 
There's tons of garter snakes around here... TONS. There's some places near where I live where if I go for a walk it's guaranteed I will either see a garter or a western yellow bellied racer. I've seen them at several properties where I do yard work too. Last time I went hiking I was lucky to get to watch a wild red spotted garter eat a field mouse it had caught. I only spotted it because I heard some squeaking in the tall grass, and when I looked it was a garter snake eating a mouse, butt first. Poor little thing squeaked all the way down and I still heard a muffled squeak or two after its head disappeared LOL. This is what I take with me on hikes - we have several different species of garters and it is nice to have a reference book. The snake I saw eating the mouse was the same kind as the one on the cover.
 

Attachments

  • DSC01638.JPG
    DSC01638.JPG
    116.3 KB · Views: 53
when i was about three, my parents woke up early in the morning hearing the shampoo bottle falling into the tub. so they went to check what it was and it was a 5ish foot long bull snake. i was three so i dont remember it at all. first snake encounter i remember is when i rescued a garter from my cousins cats.
 
All right! Good start on this thread. It was nice to see the mellow yellow rats. Maybe only the captive bred once are nippy. :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top