Situational awareness FAIL.
Nice door.
I had one of those. Good snake, beneficial for most homes and farms. Eats rodents and pests, and generally just wants to avoid people... but is active and explores.
Great snake to have around the house.
When this guy says “no solicitors”, he means it.
A nice snake to have around. They love those cotton rats that hang around in pastures.
My wife would have died of a heart attack.
Snake looks very cozy there.
Please don’t ever kill a rat snake. They are the only thing keeping Democrats under control.
Need to send rat snakes to DC. By the truckload.
Five minutes after I got home on Friday might my wife screamed bloody murder. It turns out she had stumbled upon a 5’ black rat snake in the stairwell to our basement. I have spent my entire life hating/fearing snakes and had never even touched one. Obviously, I can’t have snakes living in the house and knew I needed to man up. Going against every instinct I had, I picked it up just behind the head. He didn’t give me any trouble, just wrapped himself around my arm a couple of times and patiently awaited his fate. Once I let go of his neck in the grass outside he quietly went about his business. That experience totally changed my perspective about snakes, at least black rat snakes.
Good way to keep the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons away.
Went out on our patio last night and just about stepped on a 4 foot + rat snake. Hubby stopped me. We tossed over backyard fence and soon at an army of my guineas were trotting over to “help themselves”. They were happy, but my little snake did not seem thrilled. I did not stay to see how the interaction went, but I think the birds won.
I’ve been into snakes since I was 7 years old, and had many pet snakes throughout my life - garter snakes, green snakes, red-tailed boas and a ball python.
But without doubt, the meanest, most hostile and aggressive one was a yellow rat snake that I took home in eight grade from my science classroom for the summer because my science teacher was on a sabbatical and he asked me to care for it in his absence
He routinely would try to strike at me through the glass, hitting his nose in the process. When I tried to handle him, he would bite me, actually drawing blood on one occasion.
I was really glad when the science teacher came back and I was able to return it to the classroom.
Better than any sign to keep away solicitors and Jehovah Witnesses!
A rat snake made the news?
What will we see next in headlines ...
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For goodness’ sake; how is this news? Rat snakes are harmless and docile. I have friends in Texas that send pictures of 8-foot rattlesnakes in their back yard, and it doesn’t make the news. I just cleaned my Japanese rat snake’s cage yesterday and am right now going to feed her some more quail eggs.