re: So. FRICK SNAKES.. FRICK EM ALL

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Two pests with one stone. Amirite?

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Nope, rodents breed and populate much faster than snakes.

Upvote for 3nOut.

Generally, I leave ALL snakes alone in the wild. Live and let live unless poisonous on my property. However, this big mofo was in the house. IN THE CUPBOARD where kids and wife are. So frick that snake.

And glad I dont have hens. would fricking freak if I went to collect eggs and found a snake under the hen.

Whole story

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) -
A Charlotte family had an unexpected visitor for dinner when a more than four foot rat snake crawled inside and decided to swallow an egg whole on their counter.

Click HERE to see the video on YouTube. (**WARNING: There is some language in the video, which Neff later apologized for online)

Laura Neff says she and her husband, Robert, were in the living room of their northwest Charlotte farm home when they heard a bottle of cinnamon fall off the shelf and land on the floor.

"I didn't have to get very far over toward the kitchen to see what was going on," Neff said. That's when the couple saw the snake, which she described as "four feet, minimum."

The snake was making its way down the spice cabinet towards a basket of fresh eggs from the couples' seven chickens.

Neff says the couple alternated between "horrified and fascinated the whole time."

Robert shot the video because her iPhone was about three inches away from the snake.

The video lasts less than a minute and the snake was last seen engulfing an entire egg. It has been watched nearly 200,000 times since they posted it on Facebook Sunday.

Neff says they watched the snake eat the egg after stopping the video.

"Then it decided to fully descend onto the counter and wanted to go find a dark spot to hide and digest, which it was pretty sure was behind our fridge," she said.

But she and Robert weren't going to let that happen.

"We armed ourselves with brooms, Robert opened the window, and it took us about 15 minutes to nudge/cajole/encourage it far enough out the window that we could get its bulk under the brooms and heft it all the way out," she told WBTV.

"At the last second, it gripped my broom really tightly, trying not to fall the few feet to the ground," she said. "I had kept my cool fairly well up until that point, but there was a minute there that I completely spazzed out and whacked the broom handle on the window sill really fast, finally getting it to let go!"

The couple believes the snake got into their home through a hole in the laundry room floor, which she says is now "firmly sealed."

"We are quite emphatic that said snake will be finding its own meals - outside - from now on," she joked.

She says it took hours for her nervous system to calm down and still gets wound up thinking about it 24 hours later, but still finds the awe in the experience.

"It was a pretty cool thing to watch, and it was extremely gentle and not at all aggressive or interested in us," she said.

Copyright 2015 WBTV. All rights reserved.

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What is it with all of you who are afraid of snakes?

In nature snakes eat eggs. I eat eggs as well because they are yummy. No big deal.

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This^

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I mowed 45 ft into my neighbors yard last week to kill a 4 ft. garter snake, no questions asked..

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I chopped a 3 foot cottonmouth's head off last week that was halfway on the ditch half way in the water. Shovel vs Snake is always fun.

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Of course the reality of non threatening is the last sentence in the report.

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Of course not. it had just eaten a whole fricking chicken egg.

I don't know if either of yall were here for the backstory of that photo.

I do try to let snakes go in my yard and I have a lot of them. That and a copperhead are the only ones I've killed despite seeing dozens if not a hundred. I do hate them though but understand their benefit with rodent control.


The only reason that one died was because he wouldn't scare off. I got 2 feet from him and kicked his tail but he wouldn't budge. We had been having a rat problem and I bet he was going to help me with that (I'm sure he was tracking one right then) but I couldn't get him to slither off and my kids were in the yard so I took the age old advice and killed it with fire.

I like snakes. Always found all types fascinating.

I've enjoyed handling the boa and pythons when I've had a chance. Used to catch snakes and chase after them when I was a kid playing in the woods. My dad was Army - SF for 30 years and he taught me as a kid the differences between poisonous and non-poisonous. We would get the occasional copperhead in the backyard at times and my dad would catch it, show it to me to be sure I knew what it was, then put it in a box, get on the four wheeler and drive it way back into the woods and let it go. Only time I or he ever killed one was when a copperhead wandered into the garage one night when he was down there working.

No. That was done purely for humor's sake. But I have had snake.

Nah we're just lucky we don't live in a part of the world that has one or more of the following:

Mambas
Kraits
Inland taipan
Eastern brown
Bushmaster
Lanceheads
Russell's viper
Puff adder