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West Texas family finds rattlesnake slithering up toilet
kxan ^ | Feb. 1, 2017 | KTAB/KRBC

Posted on 02/01/2017 3:33:32 PM PST by bgill

A Jones County family experienced a nightmare come true when a rattlesnake slithered up inside their toilet last week.

Big Country Snake Removal says the family contacted them after finding the adult snake in their toilet.

When officials arrived on scene, the company investigated the property and found 24 rattlesnakes total in the family’s storm cellar and under the house. Five were babies and the rest were adults.

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To: Cold Heart

I know this late...but, I have used snake-a-way and it seems to work.

I raise chickens and that means chicken snakes in the nesting boxes getting the eggs. I killed four of them last year in a month and finally bought some of that stuff at Tractor Supply.

Didn’t see another chicken snake the rest of the summer.

Although I guess the case could be made that I decimated the chicken snake population!


81 posted on 02/02/2017 3:30:19 PM PST by Ammo Republic 15
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To: Ammo Republic 15

Thanks.


82 posted on 02/02/2017 6:56:05 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Fiddlstix; bgill; Salamander
On our family ranch, in central Texas, there's an old hand dug well with an adobe cover, that is crawling with rattlers.

Luckily, it's no where near the farm house. 😳

83 posted on 02/02/2017 7:09:00 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

Snakes gotta have somewhere to den.

As Ian Anderson put it, “He, who made kittens, put snakes in the grass...”

God made them for a good reason.

:)


84 posted on 02/02/2017 8:30:14 PM PST by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: Squantos

I am one of the more crude FReepers, I admit.

The headline that raced across my brain when reading this story was “Snake Head meets Turtle Head”.


85 posted on 02/03/2017 7:10:37 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (:^)
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To: T-Bone Texan

ROTFLMAO .... Naaaah us Texans just tell it like it is. We talk crude its oil. Rest of our conversations are simple reality. Funny but true.


86 posted on 02/03/2017 7:38:43 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

I like to think I talk like a sailor (thanks dad!) But still hold doors open for ladies (thanks mom!)


87 posted on 02/03/2017 8:37:46 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (:^)
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To: bgill

Get a King snake. Get several King snakes..


88 posted on 02/03/2017 4:54:52 PM PST by Pelham (liberate Occupied California)
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To: Daffynition

Yah, but you have Somalis, so...


89 posted on 02/03/2017 4:59:53 PM PST by Pelham (liberate Occupied California)
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To: libstripper

Better bring your crack pipe

....yes I know you don’t have one


90 posted on 02/03/2017 5:03:23 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: bgill

We had an old pump house at lake bruin Louisiana at our old camp house for skiing and deer hunting

I stepped right by a Coral Snake on night ...within a half foot

I’m Deep South I know the diff

I have many poisonous snake tales from growing up in serious snake country
And has friends but mostly by cottonmouths

Later as an adult as a partner in the Pedro Segundo opal mine in Piaui Brazil

https://sites.google.com/site/piauibrazil/pedro-ii

We had floods so bad in the village and surrounding areas with coral snakes everywhere on high ground and little kids were getting bit at night going to pee etc

Everyone slept in hammocks

We spent a lot of money to fly in emergency snake dope from Miami and Houston because São Paulo and Rio were out...

It was pitiful

19 kids in a village of maybe 5-7,000

Most under 10

I live on 10 aces middle Tennessee

We have rattlers on the hill slopes that rise up 2-500 foot around us....rocky

But I’ve only had one copperhead in my woodpile....no jokes please..lol

Other than that just usual garters and racers


91 posted on 02/03/2017 5:14:16 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: Salamander; Cold Heart
King Snake vs Mojave Rattler
92 posted on 02/03/2017 5:19:35 PM PST by Pelham (liberate Occupied California)
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To: Pelham

Maine has gone from having no gang members a few years ago to having 4,000 of them. Mainahs have gone from thinking of gang members as something they saw on COPS to something they see when they look out the window.

Vacationland now hosts the True Somali Bloods and the True Sudanese Bloods who spill each other’s blood to find out who has the truest blood of them all. In Lewiston, Somali flash mobs attack natives. In Bangor, a Somali gang is at the heart of local crime.

Somalis are slowly turning Maine into Somalia.

So much for that experiment. This is what happens when you start feeding wild bear and raccoons.

At least there are still the lobstahs.


93 posted on 02/03/2017 8:17:51 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: Daffynition

Have you all thought of feeding Somalis to the lobstahs? Just a thought.


94 posted on 02/03/2017 8:47:19 PM PST by Pelham (liberate Occupied California)
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To: Pelham

What a brilliant idea ...or sending them West on a one-way bus ticket :)


95 posted on 02/03/2017 11:15:05 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: wardaddy

I couldn’t handle that. Far too many snakes. Poor kids.


96 posted on 02/04/2017 6:33:23 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Daffynition

Apparently our gov’t here in California is dedicated to repping everyone except old stock Americans, so this is where you need to bus your excitable Somalis. They can duke it out with the rest of the 3rd world to see who will rule the soon to secede California People’s Republic. Be sure they bring along their machetes as we are in the process of outlawing all firearms.


97 posted on 02/04/2017 12:27:12 PM PST by Pelham (liberate Occupied California)
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To: Pelham
We'll only send the civilized ones, that have passed a certified course in fencing. They came for the health care, stayed for the sword play.


98 posted on 02/04/2017 7:05:02 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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