Snake Skins in the Camp.

[blueh2o]

I was at a friends deer camp this weekend cleaning up, which the camp really needed and found three snake skins. One was about 7 ft long probably a rat snake but the others were smaller ones don't really know what kind. Anybody have any idea how to get the snakes out of the camp if they are still in there. Is there anything you can put out to run them out of the camp. I'm looking for holes on how they got in but can't really find any. Lots of help would be nice hard to get a good night sleep thinking about them.

[tdog]

Mothballs

[rbsdrake]

Mothballs

+1 and #2's

[duckter]

If you have a snake problem, you don't have a mice problem.

The bad news is that you have a snake problem.

[gobama123]

hard to get a good night sleep thinking about them.

I always sleep on the TOP bunk for that very reason!

Tell your buddy to be sure and keep plenty of Rat/mouse poison out NEXT summer (eliminate food source).

Good luck with moth balls this year.

God Bless you

[fireplug]

If you have a snake problem, you don't have a mice problem.

The bad news is that you have a snake problem.

I would recomend getting rid of the snakes and investing in a cat for rodent control.

[Bonecollecter1111]

a good tom cat is actually good for both problems

[SFDdelta1]

find a new camp

[blueh2o]

Yall are correct we don't have a rat problem. But snakes are a big problem i don't even like touching the snake skins. I even hate garden snakes. I'd rather have mice than snakes anyday.

[brandon327]

wear a diaper to bed because you are probally gonna shat you pants at night if it get in the bed with you one night.

[RDB]

Snakes don't bite this time of year.....

[Don Miller]

Well, several years ago we had a clubhouse that overlloked our property we had leased in Arkansas. That summer I was talking to the lady that owned the camphouse and she informed me that there was a snake in the toilet of the hall bathroom. I kind of blew it off and went on up to camp to do some work. Sure enough, there was a huge cottonmouth coiled up in the toilet. I had about a pint of durasban to spray wasp nests with but dumped it on the pissed off cottonmouth instead and flushed the snake. I'm for sure that it killed the snake but needless to say no one took a chit in that toilet ever again.

[mfalkner]

Matches and kerosene. Or if you have buddies in the Guard, call in an air strike.

Found a small shed in the closet of my bedroom at camp earlier this fall. Small being relative, of course.

[SWAG]

I feel for you! I have had 4, yes 4 snakes in my house since I moved there 12 years ago. The idea about getting a cat will work wonders. Not only did it eliminate the food, I think it certainly keeps the snake itself away as well. My house has those sand stone rocks on the outside of it coupled with the fact that I am surrounded by hundreds of acres of soybean fields. The mice all run in once the beans are cut and snakes just love the rock house anyway (guess it absorbs heat or something?) Anyway, every 2-3 years we would end up with a snake IN the house. This does not go over well with the wife and kids, me either for that matter. Every one is a humorous story in itself. The last one happened to show himself while I was at work. I got the call from my wife, screaming into the phone about a huge snake in my daughters bedroom. She is yelling at me and yelling at my son at the same time. I am an hour away but still am in motion heading to a vehicle to go home and take care of the snake. Wife is telling my son to go and get the hoe by the front door. AMid her screaming at me and screaming at my son, she is trying to console my 7 year old daughter who is in hysterics. Wife is not hearing anything I am saying. At this point I am more worried about the sharp hoe being swung violently around than I am about the snake (chicken snake from the description she has given me so far) Well the snake has taken refuge behind the TV/DVD player and they are making plans. No doubt they have laid the phone down. I am now screaming at them to pick up the dang phone. I hear the "whack" of the hoe hitting wood and metal, screams from all 3 people, and no one is picking up the dang phone. Scared that someone is going to get hit with the hoe, I am about at wits end. My son swings a pretty good baseball bat and I imagined what sort of "hoe speed" he was getting at each attempt he was making to take out the snake. FINALLY after destroying a tv, a dvd player, an end table, a tv stand, and one section of wall; the snake is dead. Hallelujah!!! Now someone will pick up the phone. NO, not yet, we have to get the window open and throw him out. More screaming, this time over a dead snake. My daughter went back to sleeping with us, then moved to the couch in the den, and now finally after 6 months has passed is beginning to sleep in her own room again. Picked up 2 kittens about this same time (June) and they are the best mouse catching team I have ever witnessed. Have also killed a chipmunk, numerous birds, and several lizards. I assume they would at least attempt to catch a snake. We opened the attic door and let them go in and out of the attic for a couple of months. They literally lived up there the first month we opened it up. I am confident we are very limited in the rodent numbers and feel good about the chances of our home being snakeless for the first time in a long long time. Did I mention I used to not like cats?

[DUCKAHOLIC]

If you got a snake prob you got a mouse prob