Posted on 05/27/2018 11:59:54 AM PDT by ETL
A Texas man who had just moved into a new home in Morgan's Point Resort was shaking in his boots after a surprise guest showed up at his front door Tuesday.
A nearly 7-foot reptile, later identified as a Texas rat snake, was coiled around the grille on the homeowner's door. As the man went to turn his key in the door, the snake moved.
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The Texas rat snake is a non-venomous reptile that's commonly found in North Texas. ..."
"Texas rat snakes are excellent climbers and there have been occasional reports of Texas rat snakes climbing the sides of brick walls on buildings," the center explains on its website. "This can be the result of the snake detecting the presence of rodents, which often seek shelter in attics."
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GREAT pics BUMP!
Better than any sign to keep away solicitors and Jehovah Witnesses!
One thing I bet that guy’s wife never heard him say: ‘I’m bored’.
I would have chopped his head off at that point, and told the teacher it ran away.
Good snake, beneficial for most homes and farms.
So true. The barns around us have them.......used to scare our son and his friends to death but they got used to seeing them in the rafters after awhile and they sure were taught not to hurt them........;)
Learned another variation:
If red touches black, venom he lack,
I’d red touches yellow,dead be the fellow.
I can honestly say that if I saw one of those climbing on my house I would drop dead.
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Last summer I killed four chicken (rat) snakes in one month.
Two of them were already in the nesting box swallowing eggs. The other two were outside the henhouse just about to go in.
The first one I killed was nearly seven feet long and as fat as my upper arm. The others were a little smaller...amazing how big they can get.
We had 2 climb into our hanging baskets, looking for the baby birds that had hatched in the nests. (They did eat them.). At first glance, they look like rattlers.
Damn, just DAMN! The one on the telephone pole is interesting.
You win!
I hate killing them, but you are right: there really is no choice once they start eating eggs. Either off the snakes or do without eggs.
I’ve thought about having a dog run around the chicken yard, but it’s expensive, takes time, etc. Might be worth it.
We have moles that tear our yard up. The lot is very steep, so the erosion is no joke. I keep hoping the snakes will eat moles and leave the eggs alone, but chicken snakes will be chicken snakes...
Thanks. I wondered.
Last one w/ red bricks looks like a coral snake.
A rat snake made the news?
What will we see next in headlines ...
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Surprise : Water is Wet!
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My Aunt went into her bathroom and started to use the pot ...then got a nasty surprise... someone’s pet boa constrictor had somehow made it through the pipes and surfaced for air about the same time she came in.
Not unusual for Florida.
Well, I guess that’s one way to remove boogers.
King snake. Red and yellow killer fellow, red and black friend of jack
——> git a Roadrunner <-——
I’d say, “Just shoot me”, but that wouldn’t be necessary. A heart attack would do me in first.
We would find centipedes in the toilets in Hawaii. Not sure how they got there, but I always looked first.
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