Loose snake in my house!!!!!

The great thing about it was it wasn't any of mine. :snake:

Sorry to disappoint everybody thinking you were about to help me snake wrangle.


Today as I started getting ready for work I walked around a corner and saw an object out of the corner of my eye recoil back as I took a step. I turned around to see a 18 inch Garter snake laying on the floor.

It was strange as my first thought was "how'd you get out?" Not that I have any snakes even close to its size. I should have been wondering how it got in. Anyways, I quickly snapped out of it, gathered it up, and placed it back outside.

Later I sent my wife a pic and asked her if it was hers. She thought Id found it outside and brought it in for a pic as a prank. She made sure to tell me "we are maxed out on snakes at the moment." She is not a snake person and when she later found out it came in to visit on its own she was not happy. I laughed as bringing it inside is something Id do. I did wake her up once because I found a bat. She was not as excited as I was then either.

I was happy about is as this is the second Garter I have found around my house in the past few months plus I had the real treat of finding a super small Hognose baby too. They have certainly picked the right house to live around. As did the bullfrog that took up residence in my Koi pond.

LOL! This reminds me a lot of when I was a child I used to have a fascination with garter snakes. Here in Manitoba, Canada they run ramped everywhere! I'm on the left lol. Took me forever to find this picture.
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Im from the country down here in Texas. I got to play with all kinds of snakes too.

Is that a digital picture? I don't have any digital pics of me as a child. LOL!!!

There's only 2 kinds of snakes here :(!! But happily I have some in my house lol. And yes it is! I'm still young. Only 20 haha!


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There's only 2 kinds of snakes here :(!! But happily I have some in my house lol. And yes it is! I'm still young. Only 20 haha!


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I thought so. It made me laugh when I thought about the difference of you saying how long it took you to find the pics vs. how long is would take me to find a pic of my childhood. The digital age is a great thing. I would have to drive to my parent house an hour away and then start digging through boxes and books for pics.

The other girl who is in the photo actually happened to have this and sent it to be on my birthday it was nice to remember that day again ahah! And I don't doubt that! It's cool you live in Texas though, that's one of my favorite places I've ever been too! My uncle lives there.


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The other girl who is in the photo actually happened to have this and sent it to be on my birthday it was nice to remember that day again ahah! And I don't doubt that! It's cool you live in Texas though, that's one of my favorite places I've ever been too! My uncle lives there.


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Well move on down. We can always use more snake people.

Im a proud Texan, born and raised.

Its great not having to deal with seasons. I can ride my motorcycle and take my boat out fishing all year. Cant beat that.

Honestly I would like to live somewhere where it's not -40 in the winter. It's a nightmare sometimes that's for sure.


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And there's probably less snake laws lol, you pretty much have to have permits here even for ball pythons it's ridiculous.


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And there's probably less snake laws lol, you pretty much have to have permits here even for ball pythons it's ridiculous.


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Good place to own snakes and guns.

I didn't know that about Canada.

I found a juvenile black rat snake in my foyer a few years back. Since I have garters about the same size I did think that one of mine got out. It wasn't until I had it in-hand that I realized it wasn't mine.

Hindsight being 20-20 I should have kept it and chucked the garters out the door (they are native) and kept the black rat, it was a very chill critter.

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Not here in bc canada we just have restrictions on most larger species but in other areas they can't even own live rodents they're is very stupid laws but what country doesn't have laws that you don't agree with I'm glad I live we're I can own just about anything I want but if I want a Burmese python and a dwarf caiman I have to move to Ontario lol

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