We got snakes in the kitchen!!!!

Re: We got muthafuckin' snakes in the kitchen!!!!

 

Re: We got muthafuckin' snakes in the kitchen!!!!

I was waiting for that...

 

Re: We got muthafuckin' snakes in the kitchen!!!!

Jesus H. You're a braver man than I, AQB. My fear of snakes would have probably left me cowering in a corner and hoping the deputy would do his work solo. I shiver just thinking about this situation.

Any thoughts on how that fucker got in the house? I'd be checking around for holes where other slimys might want to make themselves unwanted house guests.

 

Re: We got muthafuckin' snakes in the kitchen!!!!

We're pretty sure he came in throuh a gap in the wall by the dryer vent. I plugged that as soon as I found it. I think he got in the wall through the garage. When I got home last night the door was up. Some branches from a bush near the door tripped the sensor apparently and the door didn't close. I didn't notice it as I was driving away.

 

Re: We got muthafuckin' snakes in the kitchen!!!!

People, people people ...
The only good rattlesnake is a dead rattlesnake. Trust me.
AQB did well in exterminating it. That's the best way, too — shovel right behind the ol' noggin.

 

Re: We got muthafuckin' snakes in the kitchen!!!!

And how's Steve Irwin doing these days with his overly aggressive, showy tricks around wild animals?

 

Re: We got muthafuckin' snakes in the kitchen!!!!

What the ...

This is when you know you've watched too much Discovery Channel.

My first suggestion would have been a For Sale sign in the front yard.

 

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might want to clean up this thread title ...

PhilaYank, with all due respect, you're nuts. Unless you are a professional at handling wild animals, you do not attempt to do so. Put a rattler in a pillow case, and you will get bitten, right through the cloth. In a case like AQB's, I don't think he had any choice but to kill it, seeing how animal control wouldn't come out and the deputy "doesn't like snakes."

As an aside, if a snake -- any snake ... garter, scarlet king snake, whatever, regardless of venomosity --- came into chez novelist, we'd be moving. Mrs. Novelist would determine that the house was uncleaner than a poltergeist occupation, and we'd be gone. Clothes, TV, jewelry, Gamecube all stay. She, I, two kids, in the car and outta here. Do not pass go.

 

Re: We got muthafuckin' snakes in the kitchen!!!!

First Michael Vick killing dogs and now you killing a rattlesnake. Can't we all just get along?

 

Re: We got muthafuckin' snakes in the kitchen!!!!

But Arthur Blank said Armchair_QB did nothing wrong, and he's a good guy.

 

Saw my grandpa kill a huge one of those bad boys with a pole-digger. Just walked up and popped his head off.

I'd have hid in the closet.

 

Trust me, I know me some rattlesnake. Got bit by a timber rattler when I was 11 while hiking in North Jersey. Can't say I enjoyed the experience, because I didn't. I don't know if the venom re-wired my brain, but I don't fear snakes whatsoever. Even had one as a pet and would like another one, too.

As for putting the snake in the bag, all but the smallest snakes can bite through even the burlap bags the pros use, which is why I said to double-bag. The snake and strike the bag as much as it wants, just don't be dumb or careless enough to be right next to the sack. And if it's just too damn agitated that you can't handle it, isolate it and try to get animal control. Send it to a zoo or have it re-released into the wild. The notion that rattlers are territorial is largely a myth. They just return to the same cave each winter to hibernate, that's all.

One last thing: I would never want to pick a viper up by the head. Since their fangs are hinged like a switch-blade, they could slide a fang through the side of their mouth and stab you that way.