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No snake forum? Need advice.
« on: August 30, 2012, 03:27:25 PM »
A few weeks ago I removed this from my neighbor's shower.  Today I removed two more smaller ones from the same bath room.  I can't find a place of entry, and the neighbor lady is ready to move out and burn the house!! ;D
 
Could they enter through the toilet?
 
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Re: No snake forum? Need advice.
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2012, 03:43:50 PM »
Darn Ben!  I thought I knew every Jawja snake on sight but what the heck is that!?   ???   Some kind of pet that got loose?  Looks like some kind of python or some such...  :-\
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Re: No snake forum? Need advice.
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2012, 03:51:23 PM »
I believe it is a corn snake or barn snake.  It got pretty agressive for a while until I got it bagged. 
 
The two I removed today were docile as babies.  I just picked them up and bagged them.
 
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2012, 04:42:17 PM »
I think they are brown rat snakes.  We've had them get in our house here in Mississippi.  They're good guys, but I don't want them in my house!

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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2012, 04:53:25 PM »
Yes they can get in through the toilet.  (Or so I was told long ago.).   She have any mice issues? 
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« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2012, 04:55:03 PM »
We had one in the toilet several years ago in our old house.
All I could figure was it came down a vent pipe.
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Re: No snake forum? Need advice.
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2012, 05:53:57 PM »
Very likely to have come down a vent pipe. They say that snakes are deaf but I have seen them go straight to the trunk of a tree with a nest of little birds and climb right up the trunk. It wouldn't be the only tree in the yard either.
 
MOre likely to have come up the sewer line if the system is open to the surface as old country septic tanks often were, or the system has been opened up to drain when the drain field became saturated.
 
Looks like a rat/corn/chicken/egg snake. They are beautiful. ear
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« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2012, 07:16:36 PM »
As a plumber in Florida I've seen snakes and those big African toads go down the vent stacks and up the sewer.  Then through the toilet and into the house.  An occasional rat as well.  I would pour Muratic Acid down the toilet or stack, it got rid of them.  I don't recommend Harry Homeowner try that, muratic acid is dangerous.  Plus today many municipalities have rules against that.       
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« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2012, 04:48:38 AM »
I'm going to start turning the light on when I get up to take a leak in the middle of the night.  ;D
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« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2012, 09:13:53 AM »
Brett:  Just made me think about a woman in Florida.  Her husband told me about it the next morning, and he was laughing so hard he could hardly talk.  She went into the bathroom in the middle of the night, and did not turn on the light.  After she got settled on the toilet, one of those big toads that was sitting in the toilet did not like the warm salty bath.  The Toad jumped up and contacted the lady.  She screamed, jumped up and fell to the floor.  It was a small half bath, just a toilet and sink, not much room.  Due to her weight and the smallness of the bathroom, she was unable to get up off the floor.  Meantime she was screaming, kicking, and wetting all over the place.  She woke up not only her family, but the family next door as well.  The neighbors called the Security Police, thinking someone was being murdered.  She was kicking, screaming, and just totally agitated as well.  It's wonder she did not have a heart attack.  Then as she was sliding out the door old toad decided to head for a different location and jumped from the toilet, landing on her, then jumping off into the room beyond.  That started the whole round of screaming, squirming, and kicking, all over again.

Next day I got the call to go put acid down the vent stacks, that would kill or run out all the toads in the house system.  Then put screen on the top of the vents on the building.  I had met the woman before, glad she was not home when I got there.
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