My wife comes home about 10:30 last night wakes me up, there is a snake in the kitchen.  Wasn't big, that doesn't make me any braver lol, I'm afraid of snakes.  It appears to be a coral snake, it's known fact they are in the area and other people have had them in their homes.  I know by nature they are not aggressive but highly venomous and I'm freaking out.  I manage to brush it out with a broom, my heart rate must have been 180 bpm.  Couldn't get back to sleep, had visions of snakes through out the house.

I am also on the snake hating bandwagon.

Glad we don't have much of anything for snakes here in MA.

Dang!!!

The question is not how you got that critter out of the house but...HOW DID IT GET INTO THE HOUSE IN TH FIRST PLACE?????

 

I suggest trying to figure it out before another one enters your home.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI

You are lucky she saw it. Imagine it crawling into your bed or getting up in the middle of the night & stepping on it on your way to the bathroom.

Sam's suggestion about checking for point of entry is a good idea.

Yikes , coral snakes, yep time to check out all building penetrations, water lines , windows, everything...

This might be of interest ~

 

A-Jay

 

http://www.wikihow.com/Tell-the-Difference-Between-a-King-Snake-and-a-Coral-Snake

broom?

 

why not just slam a book on it?

I prefer snakes to spiders. Now those 8 legged things are nasty.

Remember red touches yellow kills a fellow, red touches black friend of jack!

^^^^^^Ill remember anything with any of those color combinations is a dead snake, unless its a garter or black racer, they pose no threat and are easily identifiable.... Then again if its in the house, its dead no matter what....

Buy a mongoose

I do not like snakes.

 

That said, I let them live, especially garter snakes.  That is, unless they're being aggressive.  There was a black snake out on the back cement patio and it decided it owned the place.  It bit my wife, though she didn't know it until she saw a couple pinpricks and asked me.  I told her "yep", whereupon she started freaking out.

 

I cleaned her up and went to look for the snake.  Of course it was still there and wanted to fight.

 

I grabbed a shovel, pinned its head, and looked at its eyes and mouth to make sure it wasn't poisonous, and then blew its head off with a rifle.

 

The garter snakes are welcome to stay.  They're not aggressive and I can tolerate 'em.  However, even non-venomous snakes carry all sorts of bacteria in their mouths, and that bacteria can make a person seriously ill.  I'll not tolerate an aggressive snake.

 

Josh

Better than in your boot, Woody!

     This one area I fish has a snake den, there not big, but there's hundreds.  You take one wrong step and BANG.  There on you like purple is on an eggplant!  I've never seen people jump so high... It's like a teacher jumping from her stool because someone put a pin in her seat...

When my wife and I were first married we rented an old brick and stone farm house. It had a rough basement that would occasionally be visited by the local black snakes. I would relocate them to the barn when I could. I tried unsuccessfully for the year we lived there to find and patch all the holes to keep them out. My wife would not go down there without me checking first. We never saw one upstairs, but my wife was never very comfortable about them. I loved the house; my wife not so much.

There is a product called snake away that you can buy at Lowe's or Home Depot that does a good job of keeping snakes out of our yard.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lCNDqXPg6LE

Done.

Broom? How bout a flipping stick and a Live Target Mouse?

Had this been a water moc I would have called 911 and let an expert deal with it.  Knowing it was a non aggressive snake the broom seemed like the quickest and safest way.  My removal method took just a few a seconds with no harm to me or the snake, I didn't see any reason to kill it.  Things tuned out well so I think I handled right, gotta admit I didn't sleep well for the rest of the night but everything is back to normal.

Had this been a water moc I would have called 911 and let an expert deal with it. Knowing it was a non aggressive snake the broom seemed like the quickest and safest way. My removal method took just a few a seconds with no harm to me or the snake, I didn't see any reason to kill it. Things tuned out well so I think I handled right, gotta admit I didn't sleep well for the rest of the night but everything is back to normal.

SirSnakealot. Boom.

SirSnakealot. Boom.

SirScaredalot, hssssss.

I've seen a water moccasin go under an exterior door without slowing down because the weather strip was worn out. I'd call a pest control service to give the house a once over for things like that. Sounds like it was trying to den up. 

Hopefully snakes are deterred by crap..because thats what I'd be leaving piles of every time I saw one.