Dad, there's a snake in the sink

I've been finding some geckos in the house (or unfortunately, the cat finds them first). They aren't the native anole lizards (or the invasive brown ones) that you typically see here in Florida.

This was a new development though, baby rat snake in the bathroom sink. I turned him loose under the deck.

Hopefully the feral cats won't get him. I had a black snake living next to the garage and saw one of the feral cats eating it last week. 

My favorite form of rodent control.

I had a tree frog in my shower a couple nights ago 

We had one of those show up in the office bathroom at work a couple years ago. I've also seen a frog show up in the toilet at my house - twice. Perhaps they crawl in through the vent stack.

I’ll preface this with saying I love spiders. I don’t kill them, I usually just let them do their thing, or I relocate them to a safe spot where my cats won’t get them. But recently I’ve been finding these huge fast brown ones in my bathroom. Beautiful, but fast enough to be unsettling. So I relocate those outside. 

Aww.  He's so cute!

Spiders that are big enough to make strategic maneuvers when approached get pitched outside. Lizards too because there's just not enough water inside for them to live a heathy life. 

I may hate Michigan winters, but at least I've never found a danger noodle in my damn sink.....

I am disappointed in your choice of thread title. 

Snakes on a Drain, would have been much better. 

Samuel L Jackson voice on. 

DAD! There is a mother berkeleying snake on my drain!!! 

/Samuel L Jackson voice. 

Edit: While I would in no way encourage the use of such language by a child, I would have been laughing way too hard to get mad about it. 

In reply to Tom_Spangler :

It's non-venomous, so it's only a nope rope.

We've had a few tree frogs set up in between the fender and the hood on the cars. I like frogs, but going to check your oil and have one fly at your face will wake you up quickly. 

Nope Ropes scare the E36 M3 out of my when I first see them. As long as I know where they are, I'm good, but when I first see them I jump a few feet in the air. 

Spiders I'm more scared of, and I don't know why. I'm much better now than I was growing up, but I still prefer not to deal with them.

I recall with a chuckle when my brother was down for a visit.  He's helping out with the chickens and lifts the lid to the nesting box on the coop.  Goes to reach in and collect the eggs and "Whoops!" there's a 4-foot black snake curled up in there. 

Yeah, anything that doesn't belong in the house is my responsibility.  My wife has made that clear.  And leaving it alone isn't good enough.  Spider, bug, beetle, whatever.  "Eeeeew!  Honey, come get this bug....    Now."

And that was the day the house had to be burned down.

All spiders in my house die.  Especially the brown recluses I find in my shower some mornings.       

I love finding lizards and geckos all around my house.  They eat the roaches.  Works better than poison.   

If they get inside and I can catch them I do put them out so my cats don't eat them or present them to my wife as a hunting trophy.

Toyman01 said:

I am disappointed in your choice of thread title. 

Snakes on a Drain, would have been much better. 

Samuel L Jackson voice on. 

DAD! There is a mother berkeleying snake on my drain!!! 

/Samuel L Jackson voice. 

 

Edit: While I would in no way encourage the use of such language by a child, I would have been laughing way too hard to get mad about it. 

I'm disappointed in myself. Opportunity lost.

Last rat snake I saw that size surprised me when I puled a log off the firewood stack and he was underneath. He bowed up at me when I picked up the log and I reacted with the axe in my hand. Felt really bad for cutting his head off but I reacted before I thought about it. I try to leave the good ones alone.

Nice! Hopefully it gets a chance to get big enough to be useful. We had one under our back porch that was several feet long. Unfortunately he either moved on or died because we haven't seen him in a few months. 

If my wife found something like that in any of our sinks - the house would be listed for sale immediately.

Some of you guys are complete Sallys.

Childhood summers in the mountains of West Virginia have snakes at the top of my nope list. One of the best things about moving to northwest Ohio is i don't have too worry about rattle snakes