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Think we'll wait to use the grill - snake!

drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
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Went out to mow the lawn Sunday, have 2 grills in front of our 2nd garage door. Pulled the above Weber grill to the side to get the lawn tractor out. Walking back in the garage and jumped when I spotted that snake!

We have another Weber out front of the garage that had it's bottom vents open. 2 of them Western Ratsnakes were living in there. Watched that guy climb right in the bottom of that Weber.

https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/western-ratsnake
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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Left him alone and mowed the lawn - almost ran him over twice. Both snakes came out of hiding and slithered off into the woods.
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  • bullshotbullshot Member Posts: 14,724 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A handsome fella.
    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    black rat snake...gottem at our lake place...GREAT mouser and they can climb a tree like a rocket
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  • Tech141Tech141 Member Posts: 3,787 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's a good looking snake you have there. They are pretty easy to handle if you pick them up gently and move them where they are out of the way.

    Also, very fun to use to scare your cat.[:D]
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,500 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Kudos for just leaving them alone. If they hadn't moved off on their own, you could have gently picked them up and carried them away. Those are both very beneficial snakes, as noted above.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,240 ******
    edited November -1
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    Pretty. Good to have around. Thanks!
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  • mmppresmmppres Member Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    does it taste like chicken
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,500 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No. It tastes a lot like lizard, though.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    All of the snake, in fact all the reptiles I have ever eaten tasted like frog legs. OK, but not near as tasty as bison.

    Lovely Black rat Drobs, Those things can climb 18 feet up a three inch pole to feast on purple martin chicks.

    I have seen a 9 foot relative glide through low forest in Costa Rica like a needle through silk.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm sorry, but I would be needing new grills, possibly new garage door and mower after I went totaly full restard beserk with the 12 guage [:D]
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They have to eat [:p]
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  • asphalt cowboyasphalt cowboy Member Posts: 8,904 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Big Sky Redneck
    I'm sorry, but I would be needing new grills, possibly new garage door and mower after I went totaly full restard beserk with the 12 guage [:D]


    You sound like my dad when it comes to snakes.

    We drove from Ks. to San Diego back in '77. Somewhere in Az. or NM., don't recall which, we'd stopped at a rest area for lunch. While there Tracy had caught some kind of little snake and stuffed it into a jar with a handful of grass. About a half hour further down the road Tracy asked "where's my snake?".

    "WHAT?" That big Ford crewcab all but slid to a stop and there we were roadside with dad a good ten or fifteen feet away from the truck while Tracy, Wanda and I pulled everything but the seats and carpet out of the cab looking for that snake.
    About 20-30 minutes later Tracy dumped the jar out on the ground "there it is".

    We all got a good laugh out of that one. All but dad that is.
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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a mole / vole problem in the backyard. Bastages are tunneling all throughout the backyard. I wonder if I couldn't wheel the Weber back there and get them closer to their food source?


    Maybe I'll dremel the openings on the grill larger to keep em using it year round.
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  • godalejrgodalejr Member Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    the only good snake is a dead one[}:)]
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    i have been getting a daily visit from a huge garter snake in my garden, it is very welcome to stay and guard things while i sleep


    black snakes are great mousers, but if you have chickens they are egg and chic killers
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Big Sky Redneck
    I'm sorry, but I would be needing new grills, possibly new garage door and mower after I went totaly full restard beserk with the 12 guage [:D]



    I'd call you a girly man, but then there is that 12 gauge to consider...[}:)][:p]
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