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09-21-2010, 04:19 PM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: athens, ga
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| Lizards and Snakes Recently I noticed there are a lot of lizards hopping around the outside walls of my house, and today I found two or three hanging out the window panes, behind the screen, in a side door. I thought they were cute. Then today I walked into the garage. The garage door had been open since the morning since the electrician had to come do some work on the dryer. There was a thin (about the width of a sharpie marker) foot long black snake just hanging out in there. I'm so terrified he's still in there. I tried looking up snakes in Georgia, but I think he may have been a baby snake so its hard to tell. He doesn't look like any of the pics in the "venomous" section, thank God! Does anyone else have experience with these creepy crawlies? I don't even live in the woods, its just the back yard is kind of wooded. |
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09-21-2010, 04:43 PM | #2 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Georgia
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| I'll ask my hubby when he wakes up; I have no clue. He did tell me before that snakes eat lizards, so I would be very careful...maybe the lizards are trying to protect themselves.
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09-22-2010, 01:20 AM | #3 |
No Longer a Member | Lizards are pretty harmless, they are all over the place here and they eat a lot of bugs. The snake may still be in there, they find a cozy spot (they'll probably be looking for a warm place to spend the winter) and they'll stay there as long as they're comfortable. Send the hubby out to get rid of it, or call an exterminator...With the lizards, the little ones love to chase them, though Rizzo chases them into the house, less than fun for me because they're creepy to me, but the cat takes care of them from there (yuck). Good luck, it sounds like you just have a garden snake chillin in your laundry room, but I could be wrong. |
09-22-2010, 05:03 AM | #4 |
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| My husband hunts rattlesnakes. He's gotta deep freezer in the garage with about 60 in there...eww!! He taps them on the head with a stick but a few times he only knocked them out and they woke up later. I hate snakes and lizards. |
09-22-2010, 05:16 AM | #5 | |
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Why??? What does he do with them???
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09-22-2010, 05:24 AM | #6 |
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| He tans their skins and sells them to hobbists for belts and such. He loves snakes. I must say though that when he is getting ready to send some out, its a very bad day at our house. He spreads them out and I feel like I woke up into my worst nightmare. |
09-22-2010, 05:29 AM | #7 |
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| If you are seeing a lot of lizzards, the snake is probably hunting and eating them. Around here, KS, its rodents (we don't have many lizzards). If you have rodents, you will eventually have snakes. I am sure the species are different in GA, but in KS a black snake is a black snake, or rat snake. Pretty safe, but they grow to 6' long, and not that uncommon to find them in old farm houses and livestock barns.
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09-22-2010, 09:46 AM | #8 |
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| At least you do not have Frogs hopping out of your toilet! Linda? |
09-22-2010, 09:54 AM | #9 |
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| Sprigs of lavender on the window sills may keep lizards away... and the snake will leave for lack of food. Dryer sheets will deter mice King snakes will eat poisonous snakes so they're good to have around. Can you get a pic of him?
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09-22-2010, 02:39 PM | #10 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: athens, ga
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| I'm not planning on getting that close to him again. He looked like a baby snake. Hopefully he is a kind snake. |
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