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Snakes around the house- black snakes

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    Posted: 07 Jul 2025 at 5:27pm
Dang thing has been hanging around the front porch, got him good with a weedeater - wish Id had my 12 gauge- dont like them that close- any preventive measures to take??? 
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Depends on the snake , if a bull snake it's looking for rodents - rather have the snake than some critters .

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had  'black snake' in the hose couple weeks ago, found him on top of the china closet. I dont like snakes, but I am willing to live and let live as long as they outside, given their usefulness, but when they come in my house.......well I had to dispatch him before my wife saw it.
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Exactly- Lou- Cant stand the thought of one in the bed-- 
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Try a few moth balls around. They don't like the smell. I don't either

Edited by thendrix - 07 Jul 2025 at 9:00pm
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Could be worse, Skunks.  They too eat vermin as Rodents and infesting bugs as worms and grubs as well eggs of less than desirable birds.



Got back from Eureka Springs saw a NEW Burrow alongside front porch walkway, ended up sticking garden hose in and flushed These Out.  Damn Critters.


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Originally posted by LouSWPA LouSWPA wrote:

had  'black snake' in the hose couple weeks ago, found him on top of the china closet. I dont like snakes, but I am willing to live and let live as long as they outside, given their usefulness, but when they come in my house.......well I had to dispatch him before my wife saw it.

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Heres a true story on snakes, was discing one morning with the 200- got a rock caught- went back to break it out, saw black things hanging down a little , thought hydralic hoses- nope 2 long black snakes up under the platform,, yikes!!!  

Edited by DougG - 08 Jul 2025 at 5:52pm
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This one was trying to get to a barn swallow nest on my security light. I relocated him to the bushes near the front porch. I think the birds appreciated it. 

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Hubert, that sign on your door may be a bit redundant with that thing hanging there!!
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Hubert, the climbing ability of that snake is amazing, appreciate the post.  
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Only good snake is a dead snake; many have succumbed under the heel of my Tony Llamas; let me get one good stomp on that head and DEAD SNAKE.

A good Border Collie or a Blue Heeler is death on them too; they will grab them right behind the head and crack them like a whip; a snake is QUICK; a Border Collie is quicker and a Blue Heeler is even quicker than that. 

Cow snakes got terrible thick around here a few years ago; huge big seven-footers as big around as my leg.

I went in a barn one day and no less than fifteen huge ones were on the rafters over my head, laying on top of the rafters sort of zig-zagged around the lathes, with those hideous heads just swaying there, watching me, ready to drop around my shoulders; I have no idea how they could have gotten where they were but that photo of the one hanging beside the door helps explain it.

That year, I was mowing with a 12hp Cub Cadet 129, probably equivalent to the 24hp of today, and a big one slithered out from a vehicle I was mowing around; I purposefully ran over him with the mower and it killed the engine as quick as it killed the big snake.

Just recently, I was laying under a truck with my head right beside the dual rear wheels and right there was a big one wrapped around between the wheels and laced in and out of the slots of the wheels, with his head about two inches from my face; after lopping off that head with my Buck, I like to have never got the rest of him untangled and out from between the tires; I thought I was going to have to remove the outside wheel but finally managed without it.

I have these "doors" over the windows of my horse stalls where I have to swing open the door to pour the feed in the trough inside; quite a few times I have swung open one of those doors and a snake ride out with it and drop around my shoulders --- that will make even a nervy man almost piss his drawers.

As for getting rid of the snakes --- kill every one you see and sooner or later you will get ahead of the population.

I don't know if this has anything to do with it; but, we had this crazy old cat lady move in the neighbor's rent trailer, along with at least two hundred cats; they finally put the old woman in the nut house or the old folk's home, but they didn't take any of the cats --- just left them there.

For the last few years, I see a different cat every time I go outside; they know to stay clear of me else get kicked into the next county or worse.

I don't know whether it has a thing to do with it or not; but, with all these starving cats around, we don't see near the amount of snakes we were seeing.

One thing I know for fact gets rid of snakes === geese; some say Guineas will as well, but I never owned any Guineas.

When I was living at home, the almost new brick house we were living in got overran with Black Snakes.

At any time, there would be two or three hanging alongside and over the outside doors like the one in the photo above.

It seemed like every closet had at least three in it; there were blood-stains on the hard-wood floors where we had smashed in their heads.

They really liked that ice-cold tile floor in the bathroom --- why any idiot would put down tiles as a floor is beyond me --- it triples your heat bill.

We were to the point of just moving somewhere else and let the snakes have it when this old man told my father to get a bunch of Geese.

We didn't think it would help..., I mean .. really??? ... ; however, in desperation, we got about twenty common white barnyard Geese.

They destroyed the garden and there was goose everywhere and they turned the crystal-clear big pond into a feather-covered cess-pool; but, they got RID of the snakes --- ALL the snakes --- and the frogs and the lizards and anything else that wiggled or crawled in front of them.

Within two weeks of getting the Geese, you would have been hard-pressed to find a single snake anywhere on that place.
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Black Snake, are they poisonous.? 
 I'd rather have our bull snakes around buildings than a nest of rats in each building. 
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Originally posted by KJCHRIS KJCHRIS wrote:

Black Snake, are they poisonous.? 
 I'd rather have our bull snakes around buildings than a nest of rats in each building. 


Around here they're either king snakes, black racers, or maybe a coach whip. These aren't venomous. I like to have king snakes around because they kill poisonous snakes (rattlers and copperheads here). We see a good many rat snakes around here too. Sometimes they're black

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Originally posted by KJCHRIS KJCHRIS wrote:

Black Snake, are they poisonous.? 
 I'd rather have our bull snakes around buildings than a nest of rats in each building. 


Interesting article. I don't know for a fact if black snakes are either venomous, or poisonous. In fact, as I understand it, the term 'black snake' is like saying 'crescent wrench', the term has become a generic term for many different snakes. I do know that the snake we have around here that we refer to as a black snake is not aggressive, but will, if threatened and cornered bite. However, to the best of my knowledge it is harmless.....BUT it's bite can still cause a lot of problems from infections, etc.
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When I lived in SE OH we had some big snakes that everyone called black snakes. They got big, like 10+ feet long and diameter close to a beverage can. They were not poisonous and ate rodents and such. They mostly stayed away from people but yeah those sudden close encounters of falling out of the rafters or insulation and landing on someone sure gets the heart pumping! I lived near town so only saw a couple and then one I DIDN’T see I’m damn glad I didn’t. The house we lived in had a crawl space with an outdoor entrance to it. I had been under there working on plumbing. A couple weeks later I was up here at the new job and the wife and kids were still there. She saw a huge one go under there through a hole he’d made in the corner of the cover. I tell you what if I had come eye to eye with that sucker while I was on my belly confined under there I would have been up through the floor boards carpet and all!
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I have heard spreading sulfer around the perimeter of buildings with deter snakes.
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Its a good thing none of our snakes get this big!Wink

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