I don't know if y'all remember that snake in my bathroom last winter? (No pics)

[happybird]

DU’ers helped identify it as a Northern Ringneck, a harmless little dude who was probably just looking for water.

I have a new incident to report.
A few nights ago, one fell on my head as I was opening the door.
Yep. On my head.

I had just pushed open the carport door when I got home from work and felt something quickly brush across my head and then shoulder. Thought I walked into a spider web. Cue the dancing around and crazed flailing and swatting at my hair and shoulders (I’m not snake phobic, but horribly arachnophobic). Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw something black undulating it’s way towards the litter box closet.

The snake was undulating inside the house.

At this point, the cats were coming downstairs to greet me and see what all the commotion was about. Shooed them back past the nearest interior door and shut it. Then toweled the door, because that snake could definitely fit under the gap.

Thank goodness it went straight into the coat closet we use as the litter box area. He was under my rain boots. Then he fled to the gap between the litterbox and the wall. Using thick, elbow length, black rubber utility gloves (thankfully left behind by my Dad while he was working on the house) I scooped him up and set him out in the flowerbed.

It was another little Ringneck. He must have been laying on either the top of the doorframe or on the little ledge thing across the top of the windows in the door. Yay.


Never thought I’d say this, but I think I’m tired of living in the woods and getting too old for this shit. We are approaching “giant monster wolf spiders coming inside because the temps are starting to drop” season, known to some as “Autumn.”

[Doodley]

1. Yuck! Been looking for a house in the mountains - ruling out houses with carports now!

[LakeArenal]

2. I like spiders, snakes, bats. Just not on my head or in the house.

Eeeeeeek.

[happybird]

4. Exactly (except the spiders. Me no likey them)

Everyone (even the spiders) are fine by me... as long as they stay outside.

We had a bat colony in the attic of the old house I used to rent in WV. Sometimes one would get in the main part of the house. Always in the kitchen, there must have been a hole or access from the attic of some sort behind the stove area. It was cool to open the windows and watch/listen to them echo locate their way out the window. I learned a lot about bats that summer and fall.

[ms liberty]

5. If this had happened to me, no one would ever have known it.

Because the autopsy results would have told them I'd died of a heart attack.

[3catwoman3]

12. I am that way with bees. As far as I know, I'm not allergic, yet even the sound...

…of the buzz is enough to send my heart rate thru the roof. If I were allergic, I might not actually need an Epi-pen because my own adrenaline level would skyrocket.

[marble falls]

6. You had me considering a trade until "grey wolf spiders."

[Karadeniz]

7. We've had two wolf spiders inside. The cats have destroyed the weather stripping at the bottom of

the door frame, so they can just waltz in....along with the scorpions. The cats won't kill them. They think they're doing enough to just point them out to us.

[brer cat]

8. LOL

That is soooo like a cat!

[happybird]

10. Oh, yes

My cats are great at pointing them out, too. Last fall I knew there must be a monster by the bedroom door because Pooper was manically bouncing up and down, all four feet coming off the floor, like a cat-shaped pogo stick, and making weird beeping noises.

Yep. It was a big one.

[bahboo]

9. we used to live in the country outside Indianapolis....

loved it. Then I had to kill a copperhead outside the house. Then we found a bunch of babies in the basement. Then we found some shed skins in the attic. Sold the house and moved to the city. Loved it as well...then we moved to LA which we loved more...

[sinkingfeeling]

11. You are so brave. I faint if I see even the smallest snake move. If one

got in my house, I would immediately exit, lock the door, and never step foot in it again. If one fell on my head, you could attend my funeral.

P.S. Spiders don't faze me.