Name Something Scary That You’d Never Want To Find Under Your Bed…

@exexec wow I couldn’t stay there with a snake in the house…especially a venomous one. It was probably hibernating inside the house.

@cherokeepatti The house was in a wooded area and the front door was level with the ground, no steps at all, so anything could crawl inside. The last day we were there, I found a garter snake that the puppy was barking at under the piano.

@exexec I lived out east of this city in a wooded hilly area and the copperhead snakes were thick there. My sister got bit by one when she was 12, and we were burning two huge brush piles. It was fleeing the fire. My uncle got a German shepherd later on that was naturally talented grabbing snakes and shaking them into a thousand pieces. Sometimes they would get under the deck (which was about a yard off of the ground) and corner them but was in a situation where he couldn’t grab them. He would bark incessantly till someone came out and helped him get it. One time my aunt heard him barking and thought someone might have driven up into the driveway. She walked down the steps about that time the dog shook the snake, she had bits of snakes all over her including her face and hair. I drove up after she cleaned up, she was standing there with wet hair and a towel around her shoulders looking really stressed.

@cherokeepatti I'm sure it was a small copperhead that bit our dog. The only other option was a timber rattlesnake, and we would have had a dead dog if it was the biter.

@exexec I knew someone who lived south of here. He had miniature pinscher and he got bit by one and he rushed him to the vet. The vet said that dogs usually don’t die from copperhead bites. But it swelled him up and he was sick for a while. And he never learned to leave them alone, kept getting bit. Eventually died from it.

@cherokeepatti My former dog, a lab mix, had two close calls with cottonmouths, and she did a good job of warning me if one was near. My current beagle pays no attention to snakes, so I have to protect her.

@exexec I’ve found a small snake in a sticky trap in my laundry room over 10 years ago. And before that I found a dead one inside the double windows when I went to wash the windows. Whoever put the screen outside on the bottom probably didn’t notice it was there, it was inside of the metal part where the window slides up and down and it looked like it had struggled wiggling trying to get out.

@cherokeepatti A big water snake came inside when I opened the door to let the dog out. I caught it and tossed it back outside. My wife found a small unidentified one in the hall and swept it into the garage. She wanted me to find it, and I told her I couldn't find a 30 ft. anaconda in our cluttered garage. Last year, I found a tiny earth snake trying to crawl on the tile floor.

@exexec That tiny snake was probably a worm snake. I accidentally stepped on one outside on the ground next to the deck. I looked down at first thinking it was a big worm but it wasn’t as soft as a worm. Kind of felt sorry for it. I read about them and the map of their habitat was that they were east of here by one county so I guess they’ve migrated.

@cherokeepatti Could be. I released it before checking my snake book. Did find a worm snake in our mulch this spring.