Posted on 05/27/2019 8:49:51 AM PDT by Innovative
A cart attendant at a Walmart in Texas got quite the scare on Friday after discovering a large rat snake in a group of shopping carts.
The Northeast Police Department said in a Facebook post that the reptile had worked its way into the group of carts at a return area of the Walmart in Cross Roads, located north of Dallas.
"A loud scream across the parking lot at Walmart drew the attention of an NEPD Officer who was patrolling the area, at dusk this evening," the department said.
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Very poorly.
FRED, the “semi-tame” Texas Rat-snake at the Nature Center in Boerne LOVES being “picked-up”, “carried around” by the kids & played with.
He’s about 6 feet long & nearly as big around as my bicep.
yours, tex
A lot of hoes shop at Walmart...
We’ve got both here plus a few different types of rattlers. If it has a rounded nose and obviously isn’t a copperhead or rattler, I leave it alone. Saw a rat snake and a copperhead battle to the death a couple of years ago. Rat snake won.
Yep should have been 12 countries. I should have put in my last post that I live in Pennsylvania.
And they don’t like people very much either, very aggressive.
They are testy at first but become much more laid back after you work with them. Definitely not as mild mannered as a corn snake, though.
Chuckles, you got that right!
Figured it was some kind of act, it sure freaks the ladies out. They always want me to get rid of them in the yard when they show up, and they are so active and feisty it’s hard to move them without hurting them. These days I just bring the dogs in and wait a while and they’ll just wander off. They serve a more useful purpose than most humans.
As some members here know, “TMN” is short for Texas Master Naturalist & should you want LOTS of rats/mice on your land & INSIDE your house, be sure to clear-out or kill all the nearby NON-poisonous snakes.
Yours, TMN78247
VERY TRUE.
In the Fall of 2016, when the weather started “cooling off” after dark, I left the front door to my place open for about 4 hours “to air out my place”.
About midnight, I saw “evidence” that I had had a RAT “come to visit”.
The next day, I brought “Jack” one of our local “semi-wild” feral tom-cats in for “an overnight visit”.
About 0100 hours, I heard a lot of hissing, went to investigate & found that “Jack” had cornered a large NON-poisonous snake behind the trash hamper in the kitchen.
About 0200 hours, I put “Jack” back outside, so that I could sleep. I’ve NOT seen either the rat or the rat’s “leavings” nor the snake since then.
(I still don’t know whether it was the snake or the tom-cat
that “dealt with” my rat problem.)
Yours, TMN78247
Yours, TMN78247
could be, just seems like a metal cart is very odd place to “hide” unless it was outside sunning itself
Chuckling at your post.
We too, have one on the homestead.
He bops thru our carport regularly, then into a nearby flowerbed where he disappears for awhile.
A couple hours later, he slithers thru in the opposite direction, returning to whence he came.
Our cat sits inside the glass storm door & watches his comings & goings. This has gone on for a couple of years.
That’s a pic of a gusano, not a rat snake.
Maybe ut still gets ones attention.
Most women believe the rat snake is a copperhead
“Most women believe the rat snake is a copperhead”
My Grandmother called all snakes ‘Spreadin’ Adders’ and believed they were all poisonous. Damn near chopped my hand off with a hoe when I brought her a garter snake.
You can make a rat snake vest.
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