We have a lake cabin - rustic, but I wouldn’t expect wildlife to be IN it. My bro was up early making coffee ... some movement caught his eye ... he was somewhat shocked to see a fairly large black snake coming out from behind the microwave that was sitting on the kitchen counter! Fortunately, he was the one who saw it, not ‘certain other’ folks in the family who would have likely fainted. Anyway, the snake was caught & released outside. We do not know how it got in, but it was likely hunting mice ... which we do have on occasion in the cabin.
We had a family cabin that always had snakes in it. It was a hoot to see my mom screaming, running to the car and lock the doors! We kids knew how they were getting in but never told her.
Catching and playing with snakes was a major summer pastime in my neighborhood when I was a kid.
We built an all steel cabin on a river property a few years ago. The first time we had my sister and her sons down was
in November so it was pretty chilly.
My nephew went to get another cup of coffee and found a small ringneck snake curled up on the coffee maker, behind the pot!
I didn’t sleep too well until we discovered how the sneaky little thing got inside.