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Snake in the house?

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PRE 1st Generation. Pretty Nice!

Don't worry it will just want to curl up with you in bed as they like warmth. SNOKING

True. I was thinking that walking face first into a black widow nest would be worse.

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Well a couple things come to mind.....

First off, a snake would have to travel a long long way through a sewer system in order to make its way into house plumbing. Even at that, kitchen plumbing is only 1-1/2 inches ID and bathroom sink is 1-1/4 ID. So the overall diameter of the snake could be no larger than those size pipes if it was to ever make its way into a sink drain. Not considering the fact that snakes have to slither in order to move so a 1" snake would have a tough time moving inside a 1-1/2 pipe. And.....a snake small enough to make its way through those pipes wouldn't be very long.

Also, If the house is on a septic then there's no way a snake could make its way in the pipes unless it crawled down the roof vents and moved down and backwards up the street ell fitting which would instead point the snakes direction downward further into the piping instead of up around the tight turn and into the house.

Lastly, if the sink has the normal drain then there's no way for a snake to get through the small drain holes you see when looking down into the sink. Even garbage disposal plumbing openings arent direct shots up into the sink otherwise they wouldnt chew up the food before it made its way down the pipes.

So in short.....I highly doubt there's a snake in your house unless you have some seriously sketchy plumbing issues. Especially the dangerous types you mentioned which are very unlikely to leave the safety of their natural habitat and venture into foreign area's like a house.

I'm sure either something else made its way in like a bat or small bird or mouse through a window or vent you didnt know was open.....or someone broke in or came over while you were gone. :)
 
^^^ Yep, always have a good grip when dealing with a Trouser Snake
 
... that frightens the spouse who brings in a louse who rends her blouse to carouse in order to chouse the man of the house while he's out to rouse some grouse before he finds the touse caused by the mouse in his house.

There are times I shouldn't read TDR with a glass of cabernet in hand.


Sounds like you already had enough cabernet to round out the day.
I said as I scratched my head ! lol :-laf
 
Definitely not an expert, but I heard they can go for long periods without eating or making themselves present.

Hopefully it made it's way out. It's still a mystery though.
 
I'm staying at a retreat/hunting lodge in the Arkansas back country. 15 minutes ago, I opened the door to go out to the deck and saw a small (about 14") copperhead snake curled up at the bottom of the door. After getting confirmation from my daughter-in-law who lives there, that it was indeed a copperhead, she used a broom handle to push it off the deck. It went under the deck.
 
Thank goodness the only poisonous critters we have this side of America is rattlesnakes and Black widows. Both will generally stay away from people too, but in regards to the last post, I have to say that ANY rattlesnake I see on my property is exterminated. DONT need the threat of kids or dogs stumbling across one of those buggers coiled up in the grasses. Most people I know feel the exact same too.
 
SE PA will also have garter snakes most likely.
When I was growing up, we summered in northern NY state. We had a house there on 50 acres.
My dad told me he saw a snake going up the stairs to the second floor once. He nearly never drinks and has never tried drugs.
That place had so many garter snakes that me and my 4 brothers with BB guns never completely cleared them out.
 
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