Wow. I hope you find it.
We used to get snakes in our basement - a finished basement - and it freaked me out. Small ones, babies, used to scoot under a door when it was raining - they, I just put out on a magazine. The larger ones I never saw, only saw their left-behind shedded skin…and it was big.
We had a shrew once. That was a fun one.
^^Did you tame it?
It was untamable 
DH did catch it with the ole cartoon box, stick, pull string method, and put it outside, but the next day it was back. He caught it again then drove it a few miles away and let it go.
Our lab mix was scared of it, shrews are apparently nasty little things. Shrewish, you might say.
I watched a rat snake slither under my screen door into the porch. Luckily, it got stuck on a sticky pad. Caught 3 this season. People say they do more good and to leave them alone, not a chance. It shows itself in my yard, it dies.
Agree that if the snake is around, food (rats or mice in many cases) is around. So check for that problem.
I would not be able to go back inside the house. I have a horrible fear of snakes. A friend of mine had a black snake in her kitchen and I came close to passing out with her telling the story. I am glad I didn’t have any snake sightings in the yard this year , probably just by luck and timing, Last spring we had a 6 foot snake in the garage that broke a glass vase before we realized it was in there…husband and I were working in the back yard when it came out and slithered up the exterior wall and made quite a scene when my dogs went after it….I really , really hate snakes
You could grill it if you find it, or if finds your oven while you’re using it , it may grill itself.
(I feel for you.)
^you reminded me of the time I turned the oven on and there was a mouse in the insulation…
I was in the country so just a field mouse. The odor of a cooked mouse is truly disgusting.
Keep us posted and bet you catch him.
My housemate is sleeping downstairs in the LR after a knee surgery and she told me that both a rat and a racoon came in and out of the dog door at night. We are closing the door at night but I don’t really believe her because she is on oxycontin and it seems improbable. Plus there are 3 big dogs here and I can’t believe they wouldn’t make a racket. But she said they were up with me and usually 2 of them are. I’m just not sure what to think. There are some really big rats around here that get into the garage sometimes, and some wildlife although we are in L.A. county there are hills around here. Snakes don’t usually scare me but we don’t usually see them. A couple of years ago our vet managed to save a dog that got bit in the face by a rattlesnake. All I usually see are squirrels which one dog will chase and kill and an occasional possum. Oh year there was a skunk around for awhile, scared me when I was talking the trash out one night. Housemate says it was living under the neighbor’s deck. But a racoon in the house would be scary. Roomie insists it is true.
I live in a rural area where copperheads are common. My dog was bit once. I walk every day. …go fitbit…and I now count how many snakes I see on the way. There have been a lot lately for some reason, I feel like I should get points for how high I jump.
I don’t do mice or snakes. I really hate them. Now I have cats worth a damn they do get anything that gets in the house.
I would assume the snake has a family in the walls and in the middle of the night would be slithering through my hair and over me while I slept. I wouldn’t be sleeping and I seriously would have delayed the installation until it was caught.
The rat and raccoon story doesn’t seem all that far fetched to me.
@eyemamom I would freak out if I saw snakes on a regular basis while walking. I am ** DEATHLY** afraid of snakes. I am afraid of mice too, but we somehow occasionally get a field mouse in the house, and I have to deal with it. They seem to always know when my hubby is traveling, go figure lol
Its funny mice and rats scare the crap out of me, but squirrels dont bother me at all.
I’m sorry, but I am not sure I could continue to sleep in a house that I knew a snake was possibly slithering around in (if he was able to escape the trap).
We had a baby snake in the pool one time when hubby was out of town. I wouldn’t even go near it with a 10 foot pool net. Poor DS got that job.
Good Luck!
I would leave the snake alone…he’ll keep mice out of the walls.
I have a major phobia and I have forced myself to read this thread as part of a desensitization attempt.
I wouldn’t be able to enter the kitchen until it was caught. Or sleep.
Hahahah! @Consolation …I hear you loud and clear. Hoping that just reading won’t cause nightmares…but it might.
I used to count banana peels on my walks. There are a surprising number of them on the road. But then I switched to counting snakes, unfortunately. Today I was in a park/archaeology preserve and a red fox ran in front of me and I saw a bald eagle. I much prefer that to jumping out of my skin when I see a snake.
I am now only able to share this story. In the summer after my walks I jump in the pool in the backyard, which has woods in the back. It was dusk and hubby and I were together. I had surgery on my shoulder and couldn’t really use my right hair, and couldn’t lift it to my hair. I felt something on my head and I call to hubby. He just casually says back, hang on I’ll help and swims over. He really digs in through my hair and I see him turn around with a snake. We have a Polaris and I assume the snake was lurking in there and crawled on me.
O.M.G.
Presumably a non-venomous snake?
Non venomous, but a slimy scary snake nonetheless.