Life in surreal land

[The Snark]

Phone convo
Y "There's a snake in the back room. It's sort of brown with white stripes about as long as my arm. It just went into a hole in the wall."
M "It could be a baby king cobra."
Y "It's a cobra. It did the hood. We plugged the hole in the wall."
M "With your sisters butt I hope."
Y "She heard you. Be nice."
M "Sorry. No sense terrorizing the poor snake. Want me to come down there?"
Y "It's in the wall now. Maybe tomorrow. We'll unplug the hole when we leave tonight and it can get something to eat and leave."
M "I'll check it out tomorrow. Now you have a new name for the restaurant. O Hannah's."

I'll take the camera with me. Maybe get lucky.

 

[BobGrill]

You have an interesting way of starting out your threads, I'll say that much.

 

[Najakeeper]

Man, I need to move over there!

 

[The Snark]

It's a herpitologists Shangri-la for sure. The drains and canals cross crossing the low lying areas like the one running under the back of her restaurant are critter highways. Heading down there in a couple of hours. So keep fingers crossed.
The snake was very cold and moving extremely slowly. It had killed a frog but dropped it when it got startled. She left the frog next to the hole in the wall and left it easy access to the drain.

 

[The Snark]

Turned the place inside out. No snake. Are reptiles governed by Murphy's law or Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

 

[The Snark]

Sis saw the little trucker stick it's nose out of the wall yesterday evening. This is starting to get interesting. Is it possible to establish some sort of symbiosis? Run a restaurant with a resident O Hannah living in your architecture?

 

[Najakeeper]

You can trap it I guess.

Just a box with a sliding front lit and a roadkill snake or toad.

I live with cobras at home, it is a good life.

 

[The Snark]

I'm going to try stapling a strong pillow case over the hole with some frogs in it. I should be able to tell if it's in it. Then just slipknot or quickly wrap the sack. The box would require a window I would think. How could I tell if the snake is in it?

 

[Malhavoc's]

I'm going to try stapling a strong pillow case over the hole with some frogs in it. I should be able to tell if it's in it. Then just slipknot or quickly wrap the sack. The box would require a window I would think. How could I tell if the snake is in it?

what keeps the frogs from leaping out? or the snake only going for drive through take ou, rather then a sit in meal?

Assuming the building is built like most in north America, it would be stuck between two 2x4 struts correct? no chance of using a knife cutting off that panel of drywall and replacing?

 

[Shrike]

Get your buddy a mongoose.

"He was afraid for the minute, but it is impossible for a mongoose to stay frightened for any length of time, and though Rikki-tikki had never met a live cobra before, his mother had fed him on dead ones, and he knew that all a grown mongoose's business in life was to fight and eat snakes. Nag knew that too and, at the bottom of his cold heart, he was afraid."

Disclaimer: I'm not advocating killing the snake. I'm just a fan of The Jungle Book.

 

[PhiGamTeacher]

Get your buddy a mongoose.

"He was afraid for the minute, but it is impossible for a mongoose to stay frightened for any length of time, and though Rikki-tikki had never met a live cobra before, his mother had fed him on dead ones, and he knew that all a grown mongoose's business in life was to fight and eat snakes. Nag knew that too and, at the bottom of his cold heart, he was afraid."

Disclaimer: I'm not advocating killing the snake. I'm just a fan of The Jungle Book.

Before I was a 2nd grade teacher, I got my foot in the door from subbing and then replacing the librarian when she got fired. I totally read Rikki-Tikki-Tavi to them. It was fun to watch the little ones jump as I read the action scenes.

On Topic: If you manage too catch it, put up some pictures for sure!

 

[Biollantefan54]

You could do the bag and bait thing but have someone hold a large thin piece of wood or metal above the hole so when it comes through, someone lowers it and it cant get out. And yes, post pics. I also love that book!

 

[The Snark]

We are working on the snake. We're honestly rather fond of it and feel complimented by it's presence. Right now it's just being careful time.

Rudyard Kipling should have been caught and shot for writing that book.
From quite a bit of bitter experience, let us describe that household that Nag so rudely intruded upon. After maiming the cobra with dozens of vicious bites, the heroic mongoose gets bored. It takes a few bites of the baby then is chased off when the baby is screaming. The people chasing off the critter would get several bites as well. Then it's off to the kitchen to raid the trash. In the ensuing time as the humans try to catch the thing is pees and poops all over the house. (Mongoose urine is RANK! Makes cat pee a delicate aroma of lilac and rosemary in comparison) Unwilling at first to vacate the place there would be several more stand offs where the humans would get additional vicious bites.
For the record, the mongoose, 'garbage hounds', omnivore carrion-ovore detrivore carnivore of such fame would best be described as a cross between a giant sewer rat, a weasel, and a chain saw, operating on a quarter cup of pure methamphetamine. Their bites are incredibly fast, capable of taking out vipers, and they don't bite per se but deliver a series of tearing shreddings. Their mouths are as filthy as it can get, they are fantastically belligerent and their attacks on snakes can be just for entertainment. Additionally, they are extremely invasive, killing off all non arboreal animals they come across, subsequently getting the mongoose tribe banned from being imported just about everywhere. Fortunately they can't climb for beans or many more bird populations would have been decimated as well.

 

[The Snark]

Update

And what we have here is a bunch of pillow cased bored frogs and a snake apparently uninterested in a floral printed cotton polyester blend hunting ground.

 

[Najakeeper]

Hmm...tough one mate.

That's why I thought opaque box with some sort of a trap mechanism on the front.

 

[The Snark]

The humane traps I've seen around here, much as the box trap you described, would have the door trigger while a large portion of the snake outside. May end up trapping the snake or it may escape, if it goes in.

Right now the consensus is it is honoring the place with it's presence and all, snake included, are trying to coexist peacefully. On the practical side of that, they have rearranged the furnishings throughout the kitchen area where a snake would be easily noticed. Wishful thinking in my opinion but the snake hasn't been seen in about 5 days.