I really did not think they could do that?

riptides · Dec 2, 2005

Ahh... rural visitors!

So, you ask... how many times did I walk by it? Three timeS.

Leaned over by it? Twice.

The dogs were the ones who got my attention.

Enjoy!

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

DUMBDOG · Dec 2, 2005

If that is what I think it is, I did not know that they could crawl up a wall like that. Now I know how they can get up in the attics.

txdon · Dec 2, 2005

The last time I saw a vertical snake was at my grandma's crawling up the exterior brick wall following the mortar. The snake looked similar to yours - squared instead of curved - how do they do that.... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
What kind of snake it is?

OKnewguy · Dec 2, 2005

Thats pretty wild! When I was inspecting our current property for purchase I popped open the huge electrical disconnect panel to have a look. It is the style that has the 2 large knife type blade, well when I peaked in there was the charred remains of some kind of large snake. He seemed to think it would have made a nice place to explore. I found out he had entered in where a 2" knock-out had been knocked out and didn't have a blank installed. It was nasty.
Dave

Treed_in_TX · Dec 2, 2005

I found a snake crawling up a ladder outside my office. After much looking I found it to be a corn snake. Climbing is one of their traits. So is striking like a rattler, but it's a fake. I let it go in the garden to help with the pests.

Volfandt · Dec 2, 2005

Watched a 4' black snake scale up a tree and disappear into a hole about 15' up faster than I thought they could.

They are good mousers so I was careful not to scare it off when I almost stepped on it one afternoon sunning infront of my shop door a few days later /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Volfandt

OKnewguy · Dec 2, 2005

I also remeber a couple times a year finding a black snake skin in my dads shop growing up. We also purposely left him alone. I never really saw it, but we never had rodents after he moved in. The saws and other equipment noise and vibrations I guess did not bother it.
Dave

arthr31 · Dec 2, 2005

I've seen snakes go up ladders (corn snake) and up cellar walls (ribbon snake, like a gartner snake). That's a weird pic thou, looks like a door handle or something!! ICK! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

SCOOBY14B · Dec 2, 2005

GEEEESHH!!!!!

You guys REALLY need to put some sort of warning before some people that are SUPER afraid of snakes opens it up.

About knocked my laptop in the floor!!!

hobbyfarm · Dec 3, 2005

riptides,
oooooowwwweeee!
Glad it's your house & not mine.
Wierdest thing I've ever found in my house, a young possum found in the kitchen. Never figured out how he got in. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif (I kind of think he was snoozing in a box of Christmas decorations brought in from the storage building around the same time. {if so, my wife would have had a coronary if she knew /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif})
Thanks for the photos.
That could not be a "pet" snake one of your kids brought home for fun? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Also a good reason to have some other (more civilized!) house pets.