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  • Ole Cowboy

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    Actually no. Cottonmouths have a stink like a half potent skunk. I don't smoke and have a fair sense of smell. If that bastard was in here I'd smell him.
    So you boys get off the snake in the house kick huh? You don't amuse me...
    Tell ya straight up, came downstairs one am to make coffee to have a rattlesnake coiled up in the corner of the kitchen.

    Watching the football game on a Sun afternoon in my living room and a cottonmouth goes crawling across the floor tween me and TV, I was sitting in my easy chair and I kept a .22 pistol in the table next to me, shot him in the head...my company (new to Tex) was pale in the face and his GF near a stroke. He asked me if I was gonna pick it up, I said sure, at half time. That is all it took they left on that note and in fact a couple of weeks later that moved BACK to Ohio after being in Tx only a few weeks..

    Give sneaky snake this:
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    busykngt

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    Atomic Annie can help you.
    That gun is at Ft. Sill’s artillery museum. We probably could bring it down here for a one time direct fire mission!

    Mothballs (Napthtalene) will evaporate in the open air. Just for good measure, I’d load up that space one more time before Winter, just to discourage them from hibernating there. As I recall, snakes get pretty active again in September looking for good places to hibernate come October.
     

    RoadRunner

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    Multiple posts about the snake in the house, over and over again. Its getting old.....

    I probably shouldn't have posted about the snake coming into your house. It is bad enough that you have to worry about getting snake bit every time you step outside. You shouldn't have to worry about getting bit by a snake in your house.

    I suppose that you could distribute the moth balls all through your house. But that might run you out along with the snake.
     

    busykngt

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    I too can’t stand snakes - courtesy of an older brother and dead water moccasins from the creek next to the house (in KY) when I was a young pup!

    Call me paranoid, but it’s why I still turn on the light in the bathroom to this day:
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    RoadRunner

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    I too can’t stand snakes - courtesy of an older brother and dead water moccasins from the creek next to the house (in KY) when I was a young pup!

    Call me paranoid, but it’s why I still turn on the light in the bathroom to this day:
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    I hadn't thought about the snake coming into his house through the sewer, but that is a real possibility, especially since it is a cottonmouth.
     
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    busykngt

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    Last summer had a copperhead take up residency under my patio slab (where the soil had eroded away a bit). This foam stuff is incredibly sticky (tacky) while liquid and then it {greatly} expands. If it came into contact with the snake, I suspect the snake was encased in the foam as it quickly hardened. In any case, I’ve never seen another one.
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    Ole Cowboy

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    I too can’t stand snakes - courtesy of an older brother and dead water moccasins from the creek next to the house (in KY) when I was a young pup!

    Call me paranoid, but it’s why I still turn on the light in the bathroom to this day:
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    WOW, not sure if Buckmiester will ever squat again, prob go on a cheese diet till he finds that snake. I think he may be down to one choice only:

     

    RoadRunner

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    WOW, not sure if Buckmiester will ever squat again, prob go on a cheese diet till he finds that snake. I think he may be down to one choice only:



    The problem with him finding that snake is that a lot of times there will be 2 snakes. Some snakes will be looking for breeding partners this time of year.

    Must be the pits to know you have a snake under or possibly in your house.
     
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