When snakes invade

[Warren870]

So it was around 12:30 this morning when I randomly woke up for no apparent reason. Deciding I was thirsty I groggily made my way down the hallway when I thought I saw a shadow on the wall move. I actually didn't think anything of it at the time being half asleep. After getting a bottle of water I went back down the hall when I definitely saw something on the wall move! To my great surprise there was about a 4' black snake slithering out of the washing machine drain!
We ordered a new washer a few days ago and in anticipation of picking it up in a few days I had removed the old washer giving the trespasser a nice open unused tunnel straight into my house.
As I banged around in the closet looking for a pillow case to put the snake in I accidentally woke up my wife. She promptly saw the home invader still hanging out on the wall and within 5 seconds of waking up she was standing in the middle of the bed, shotgun in hand, screaming for me to get "that expletive snake" out of her house. At this point the whole house is awake. I'm trying to catch the darn snake while trying to calm a very pissed off wife who is still holding the shotgun by the way, herd twin 5 year olds away from the snake who is also very pissed off at this point (he was thankfully unarmed though) and shoo away a curious german shepherd puppy who had absolutely no clue what's going on but knew he had to be right in the middle of the chaos.
To make a long story short the snake was captured and placed in a pillow case, the wife was calmed and disarmed, the children were ushered back to bed after a long and drawn out argument about why we were not going to keep the snake as a pet and the puppy was still jumping around trying to figure out what was going on. Who would of thought one little non venomous snake could cause all that ruckus.
I was going to release the snake this morning but after one rather unfriendly glare from my loving wife when I tried to get back in bed I was in my truck at about 2am driving to the very edge of our property to let the poor snake go.
We live way out in the country. I see snakes on an almost daily baises this time of year but this was a first actually having one make it's way into our house.

 

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So it was around 12:30 this morning when I randomly woke up for no apparent reason. Deciding I was thirsty I groggily made my way down the hallway when I thought I saw a shadow on the wall move. I actually didn't think anything of it at the time being half asleep. After getting a bottle of water I went back down the hall when I definitely saw something on the wall move! To my great surprise there was about a 4' black snake slithering out of the washing machine drain!
We ordered a new washer a few days ago and in anticipation of picking it up in a few days I had removed the old washer giving the trespasser a nice open unused tunnel straight into my house.
As I banged around in the closet looking for a pillow case to put the snake in I accidentally woke up my wife. She promptly saw the home invader still hanging out on the wall and within 5 seconds of waking up she was standing in the middle of the bed, shotgun in hand, screaming for me to get "that expletive snake" out of her house. At this point the whole house is awake. I'm trying to catch the darn snake while trying to calm a very pissed off wife who is still holding the shotgun by the way, herd twin 5 year olds away from the snake who is also very pissed off at this point (he was thankfully unarmed though) and shoo away a curious german shepherd puppy who had absolutely no clue what's going on but knew he had to be right in the middle of the chaos.
To make a long story short the snake was captured and placed in a pillow case, the wife was calmed and disarmed, the children were ushered back to bed after a long and drawn out argument about why we were not going to keep the snake as a pet and the puppy was still jumping around trying to figure out what was going on. Who would of thought one little non venomous snake could cause all that ruckus.
I was going to release the snake this morning but after one rather unfriendly glare from my loving wife when I tried to get back in bed I was in my truck at about 2am driving to the very edge of our property to let the poor snake go.
We live way out in the country. I see snakes on an almost daily baises this time of year but this was a first actually having one make it's way into our house.

I think your kids had the right reaction

 

[Teal]

she was standing in the middle of the bed, shotgun in hand, screaming for me to get "that expletive snake" out of her house

Well, that's dramatic

You definitely should have let your kids keep it. At that age, my oldest was following in my footsteps by trying to secretly keep a rattlesnake in his bedroom

 

[Warren870]

You definitely should have let your kids keep it. At that age, my oldest was following in my footsteps by trying to secretly keep a rattlesnake in his bedroom

Their birthday was a few weeks ago so since they had been bugging me for months about having their very own pet we told them they could pick out whatever they wanted within reason. I was trying to get them to pick ball pythons and my wife was rooting for hedgehogs. After looking at several websites for ideas one decided on guinea pigs and the other wanted ducklings. So off to the feed store we went and came home with two female guinea pigs named dinosaur and starlight and six ducklings who have yet to be named. They'll get a snake eventually but I'd prefer to buy a cb one. I like leaving the wild ones outside to eat the rats and mice that are constantly eating my livestock feed.

 

[Galapoheros]

Well, that's dramatic

You definitely should have let your kids keep it. At that age, my oldest was following in my footsteps by trying to secretly keep a rattlesnake in his bedroom

I kept scorpions that way, my parents are bugaphobes but they let me keep snakes and amphibians as a kid. My dad's dad kept weird stuff though, guess it skipped a generation.

 

[dragonfire1577]

I would have been happy to see such a pretty snake in my house haha, good job releasing him.

 

[Teal]

Their birthday was a few weeks ago so since they had been bugging me for months about having their very own pet we told them they could pick out whatever they wanted within reason. I was trying to get them to pick ball pythons and my wife was rooting for hedgehogs. After looking at several websites for ideas one decided on guinea pigs and the other wanted ducklings. So off to the feed store we went and came home with two female guinea pigs named dinosaur and starlight and six ducklings who have yet to be named. They'll get a snake eventually but I'd prefer to buy a cb one. I like leaving the wild ones outside to eat the rats and mice that are constantly eating my livestock feed.

Aww, that is wonderful! I bred cavies for years to feed my big snake collection... They are fun! And ducks are friggin adorable.

I kept scorpions that way, my parents are bugaphobes but they let me keep snakes and amphibians as a kid. My dad's dad kept weird stuff though, guess it skipped a generation.

My folks pretty much let me keep whatever as a kid... I was always catching something or bringing something home. But when my mom came in one morning to wake me up for school and heard a rattlesnake under my bed... yeahhhh, that one didn't go over so well