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do you think he's after my robin eggs?

BAdger, badger, badger badger......A SNAKE! OH NO, a snake......

Hi Thorn, is there any way to deter that snake? And, will my dog get sick if he's bitten?

EWWWWWWWWWWWW - keep it down there, K?

black snakes are good as long as he doesn't eat my robin eggs.

oh man I hate to think the snakes are getting out ALready...where's my snake away

I love your hosta's...what's that coming up down by his tail?

That's non poisonous snake.

that's hosta too Belinda.

So Thorne, it won't make my dog sick? Just maybe hurt a little?

don't the black ones play dead if they can't get away?

I use that snake away up close to the house

what's snake away?

it's a snake repellent
http://www.provenrepellents.com/products.php?catID=9

can get it at wal mart, lowes, home depot, hardwear stores
http://www.provenrepellents.com/products.php?catID=9

Hey, that looks like quite a large snake. cool.

does the snake away work?

I posted here one time about the big black snake in the attic. I'd like to keep them away from my house.

Tamara, the snake is my house was over 6 feet long. Scared me out of my wits when I saw it. (now you guys know what's wrong with me)

....i'd b scared to death too....once a king cobra....a not too big/long one got lost n entered my house... d hubby showed it to d door...took sometime tho... but we couldnt kill it bcoz we know it wouldnt just simply enter our house on purpose .... must have got lost n got confused...n it was also terrified of us...!

BTW ...here we'd sprinlke sulphur powder to deter snakes...well think thatz whatz it in english...! i know it in malay..but not very sure what it is in english....sorry...

I had a bad experience with a snake after robin eggs last year. Me and Jeremy went out into our entry to smoke. We normally sat on one side where there was 2 chairs and a table. We sat on the other side that night because a robin had layed eggs in a hanging plant up above the chairs. The babies had all left but one and one egg that hadn't hatched. The baby had been trying it's best that day to get out of that nest so we were afraid it would jump out on us. We were sitting there and I noticed something rustling in the plant that was on the table between the chairs. Then I saw it! It was a huge snake, about 4 feet long, and it took off up the wall towards the plant and nest. We thought it was a copperhead. We didn't find out until the next day it was a garter snake. We had a time killing it. I puked it freaked me out so bad and I finally had to go wake Christopher up to come help Jeremy kill it. It had gotten the egg that hadn't hatched. I'm pretty sure it hadn't gotten the baby. There weren't any bumps in it like it had eaten anything. I think the baby had managed to fly away that evening.

After that I was afraid to walk outside at night because I saw how easily snakes could slither up the side of my house. I had visions of a snake just pouncing on me from above if I walked out there. I smoked in the garage after that.

Man, I went out to check how the garden faired after the storm we had last night. Went out there barefooted and all I could think about was SNAKES!!!
(several years ago we had a 5 ft long chicken snake in our laundry room. hubby went in with a pocket knife...came out 10 minutes later covered in blood. Talk about wanting to puke! he looked like something out of stephen king movie.)

KING COBRA!!! And here people worry if a harmless garter snake gets in the house. Snakes don't bother me much. If they're poisonous, I keep my distance, if they're harmless, I just say, "Cool!", take their picture, and go on my way.

We ususally let snakes be too, unless they are a copper head or water mocasin. Hubby probably figured there wouldn't be much laundry done if the snake was just wooshed out the door.

We don't have Water Moccasins here in Tennessee, but I saw them at my grandparents' house in Louisiana, every day. We have Rattlesnakes here and a few Copperheads.

gosh, I didn't realize there are rattlesnakes in TN. We see a copperhead or water mocasin once in a while but not rattlesnakes. Now that WOULD scare me.

Rattlesnakes are the LEAST scary of the poisonous snakes. They generaly make their presence known by rattling. Copperheads and Water Moccasins stay hidden and then and ambush without warning.

I have never seen a rattler. There not common where i am....you gotta drive a few hours west to see 'em around here. I'd really LOVE to see one though. Hey, give me a warning and I'll get out of your way! Them dang water moccasins, though, they hang out right where your trying to fish! they don't run or scurry away. don't get between me and my fishing!

Thorn sees Cricket fishing and goes and stands in front of her so she CAN'T do it.

Ok, I wasn't gonna ask but what's up with 'why a duck'....why NOT a duck...and why would you even THINK of getting in the way between a woman and her fishing?

Why a Duck? Is something I heard one time thought it was a very Weird question. The answer is, "Because a goose." Which is even weirder. I have NO idea what it really means. I loved fishing so much that when our church bought a farm to use for retreats they had me and another boy live out there to run the place and to fish to provide fish for church picnics. (No, we were NOT a cult) It was strictly voluntary on our parts to live there. I even bought the farm next to it, with my inheritance later, and we still own it today. In March I would go and fish under flood lights every night and catch White Bass at a dock at a nearby TVA lake. I would catch 100-200 white bass a night. A little later the Walleye would be running. Then the Crappie, Then the Shellcracker Bluegill. Then I would hit the small rivers and large streams in the area for the Smallmouth bass. And of course you could catch Catfish about all year. I've never been much for catching Largemouth bass like so many other fishermen but if they were hitting good and I was in the right area I was ready for them and would go after them, too.

I think I just found one of these curled up in a robin's nest UP IN MY RAIN GUTTER. I can't reach to get it down and momma robin is stressed to the max. Any suggestions? If I knock it down I chance breaking the bird eggs. I'm in Wake Forest, NC and no nothing about snakes. This guy is BIG, mottled dark grey.

HOLY COW! a snake in the rain gutter! gosh...all I can think of is if you have one of those tree trimming stick things, maybe you could grab him. UUGGGHH!

Thorn, I'm just now seeing your 'why a duck' post. it seems if i don't look at the forum every day or twice a day I miss a response. I have a nonsense saying too that I heard once. 'no matter where you go, there you are'. we'll I didn't understand it for years, but the older I get the more I think I do understand it.

I love that saying, too, Cricket.

As for the snake, not much you can do. "THAT IS THE WAAAAY OF NATURE!!!", Thorn says in his best,deep echoing, godlike, dramatic voice.

sad, but that is what we've learned to do here. I don't know how many baby rabbits and kittens we've tried to 'save' from the jaws of our labs. only to realize later we did more harm and only prolonged their deaths.