When I was a kid, I stepped on a venomous snake while hiking in the woods with my dad. I was lucky I had tall rubber boots on because we were walking through some serious mud. I did not notice that the thing was slithering up my boot, but luckily, my dad did! He whacked it off with a stick a second before it began aiming to crawl into the boot! Yup. Not a fan of snakes. Can handle mice and rats just fine.
My dad used to keep a big stick on the porch at our house in the country I was born in, and lived the first few years of my life. More varieties of poisonous snakes there than any other country, I believe. Snakes in the yard were commonplace, and with so many being venomous, I was not allowed to go near.
Snakes outside my house nowadays don’t freak me out. IN my house…yeah, no. Not cool.
No snakes here (as far as I know) but recurring problems with raccoons. They were hanging out in the attic. They are not afraid of anything. I would occasionally hear them on the roof, stand by the door to the deck, and have a stare-down. The raccoons always won. The most interesting raccoon incident was when one got into my car through an open window. I didn’t realize this until hours later, when a car’s horn was honking. I realized it was my car. I realized there was a raccoon in the front seat. I realized that the raccoon and I must have been in the car together when I got in earlier in the evening and shut the windows.
I keep on checking this thread hoping OP is going to report the snake is caught. I am like some of you, I would absolutely freak out if there was a snake in my house.
Im going to have to stop reading this thread tonight, or I will dream about snakes!
You probably don’t want to hear my story of hiking with the Brownies outside Denver…
OP here. Still no sign of the snake. I try not to think about it, but I I am still freaked out. If it did get out of the house, it means it could get back in. We’ve had snakes in the pool and on the screened patio but never in the house.
A few years ago, we had a raccoon in the column by our front door that was brick on the outside while one side was drywall in the house. Apparently there was a gap at the top large enough for a raccoon. Had Critter Catchers come out and set traps. We ended up trapping two, a teen and an adult female. The trapper came and took them away to set free in the woods, miles away. The female screamed and thrashed in her cage wildly. A few hours later, I knew why. We heard little mewing sounds from behind the drywall. She had just given birth before she was trapped. We cut through the drywall and pulled out the newborn pups and the trapper came back and took them to a wildlife rehab. I felt horrible that they were without their mother. And we did close the gap at the top of the column. I think a whole house inspection to close off any points of entry is needed after the renovation is done.