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A freakin snake... that's what. Oooh, I hate snakes. My son went outside to move something for the landscaper and he came back running inside screaming. Now I went out to investigate and what I really should have done was put the house up for sale and move. Anyway, it was in the corner and it looked like it was on the outside at first and I was just going to ignore it figuring it would go away. As I got closer that stupid thing lunged for me.
Nastiest little snake ever. It was maybe only 12-14 inches and I thought it to be a juvenile of some kind. I tried to put it on a stick to get it outside and the thing attached to my stick. Apparently this snake had teeth. Now, when it lunged for me after it dropped off the stick, it's tail did what looked like a rattle pattern, but there was no sound and there was no rattle. It just shook like it was rattling.
Well, finally I got this thing to stop lunging at me and got it on the stick by going in from behind, but half way over to the fence I dropped the damn thing and I started going after me.
Hell with that, I went inside to get a weapon. I was about to go all Indiana Jones on it. As I turned around to walk inside it got smart and made a mad dash for the fence and slithered onto the vacant lot next door into the woods.
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Yikes. If it was a juvenile, it might have been a rattler. They are definitly native to FL. Then again, I've seen snakes do that (on TV) and it's just an attack posture. But that it went after you a bunch of times is worrisome. LizardCop, what's your prognosis?
I shouldn't have read this thread, it's giving me the heebie-jeebies. I don't like snakes and reading that it kept lunging at you, no thank you. I think I would have run away screaming at the top of my lungs.
I know how you feel!! I had to call my husband home a couple of weeks ago because there was a snake inside my closet pocket door!! I freaked out so much that I couldn't go in my room until I knew that snake was gone!!
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Yikes. If it was a juvenile, it might have been a rattler. They are definitly native to FL. Then again, I've seen snakes do that (on TV) and it's just an attack posture. But that it went after you a bunch of times is worrisome. LizardCop, what's your prognosis?
Unfortunately, I think I was dealing with a snake called a Pygmy Rattlesnake. I can't tell because the picture doesn't look exact, but the description seems dead on.
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Yikes, too!
I would use mothballs to help keep them away, around here. Does that work where you are?
I have no idea. I am pretty confident setting the house on fire and living somewhere else would work too.
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I shouldn't have read this thread, it's giving me the heebie-jeebies. I don't like snakes and reading that it kept lunging at you, no thank you. I think I would have run away screaming at the top of my lungs.
Oh I screamed. Make no mistake about it. I even called the landscaper over to help me, but once he found out I was dealing with a snake he ran away. He was a little more afraid than I was . Some landscaper he is!
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I'm glad it finally gave up the fight and left... I would definitely set traps up.
Are you insane?
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I know how you feel!! I had to call my husband home a couple of weeks ago because there was a snake inside my closet pocket door!! I freaked out so much that I couldn't go in my room until I knew that snake was gone!!
I tried to call my husband and conveniently didn't answer the phone. So I was left to deal with it all by myself. Well, I will conveniently forget to do his laundry for not being here to deal with that nasty little snake.
Oooo. I can't believe how aggressive that little thing was.
Oh I screamed. Make no mistake about it. I even called the landscaper over to help me, but once he found out I was dealing with a snake he ran away. He was a little more afraid than I was . Some landscaper he is!
I know it's not funny for you, but thinking about the landscaper running away - nw that is funny.
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OMG! I hate snakes too and we seem to have a family of them here that are living in our waterfall outside of our condo building. We have the garter snakes and they are slithering all over the grass, the parking lot, the sidewalk. I am so terrified of them! They seem to love to scare me to death by popping out of the cracks of the sidewalk or from under the stoop. I think they need to find a new home somewhere else!
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I freaked out so much that I couldn't go in my room until I knew that snake was gone!!
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