How do you find a snake in your home?

Question

My wife saw a snake while I was at work & she's afraid to stay in the house! I've looked everywhere & no sign. Is there a way to get it to come out? I live in an area where there's rattle snakes, copperheads, ground snakes , black snakes & so on.. About 10 years ago I caught a rattle snake in my house.
If anyone can help I'll be thankful.

Answer 1

Hi need not worry too much..by the time you read the mail the snakes gone to its next destination.
Since u say you live near the woods there are there for food.
The best way to keep them out is to keep place clean and neat.Do not leave food in the open especially eggs,diary products and meat.
You may want to Fumigate the house.These will ensure all insects and reptiles are smoked out.
Thereafter sprinkle some sulpur along the perimeter of the house and if these still do not work you can rear a pair of Geese.....this will completely eradicate all forms of snakes except large pythons,king cobras and anacondas.

Best of Luck.

Answer 2

try getting a mouse or small rat and put it in something that allows air to go through, preferrably screen. you might want a small fan next to it that rotates so the smell of the mouse(or rat) is spread around the house. another thing you can do is to get a bottle or something else, that has a hole just big enough for the snake to get through, but too small for it to get out once it's eaten something. put a mouse or whatever inside it and wait. any local pet store that sells reptiles also should have some feeder mice or whatever for you to buy. please don't put anything around the house that uses glue to catch it. it is very painful for the snake. if the mice still don't work, you could buy a kingsnake. at least 3 feet. they are tame snakes that are great pets and will eat other snakes regardles of venom becuase they are immune to it. good luck! hope this helps!

Answer 3

Drive a large nail in the middle of the floor and tie a white mouse to the nail. When the snake comes out to get get the mouse, whamo you got it! This is an adaptation of something I saw on the Animal Planet, only they used a goat and a lion.

Seriously, as long as there is no food source and no water available the snake will leave for better hunting grounds.

Answer 4

Oh, I wish I knew something to help you. I swear to God if there was a snake in my house and I couldn't catch it, I'd move. I mean it. That snake could be anywhere. I could never sleep there. Look in your yellow pages. There may be a herpetologist in your area who will come and help you. We have one here who does school assemblies and so on. They call him the Snake Guy. He will help people out with problems like this.

Answer 5

Kick on the AC, and place a heat mat in the center. Will need to warm up sometime. Will either go for the heat mat or leave the house. Flour spread on floor by room entrances will help to see the pathways it goes if slithers by.

Start working on sealing up your house more efficently.

Answer 6

NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS KEEP IN MIND SNAKES LIKE TO GO TO HIGH AREAS BECAUSE THE HIGHER THE AREA THE WARMER. CHECK TOPS OF WINDOWS WHERE BLINDS AND VALANCES ARE, CLOSETS, SHELVES ETC. I PROMISE YOU IT WONT BE ON THE GROUND AND IF IT IS YOU ONLY CAUGHT IT LOOKING FOR FOOD.

Answer 7

you are probably out of luck. i have lost pet pythons in my house and not found them for up to 6 months before!! check under the fridge and in closets. he might have a route to outside and you might never find it!

Answer 8

Sulphur might helps to calm your wife down, and if there's really a snkae, sulphur will help keep them away

Answer 9

Look in worm spots and dark spaces.

Answer 10

Whether you live in a house, condominium, or apartment, there are several things you can do to decrease the potential for snakes to enter your living space. Excluding snakes from buildings depends on closing or eliminating the most minute openings around windows, vents, electrical conduits, and plumbing pipes. Snakes may be inadvertently attracted into human residences by odors that indicate the presence of potential food items. Brown Treesnakes eat a wide variety of prey species (frogs, lizards, eggs, birds, and mammals), but are also known to respond to chemical cues from blood, raw and cooked meats, bird litter/droppings, eggs, and even milk products. Good housekeeping and careful inspection of openings through which animals can enter are equally important to excluding rats and mice, and other odors that might attract snakes. Pet foods should be stored in sealed containers. Containers and wrappings from meat products, and even soiled sanitary products and diapers, should be removed from the home daily, sealed in plastic trash bags, and stored as far as possible from areas occupied by people and pets.
Snakes can be excluded from living areas by carefully inspecting and eliminating tiny spaces, holes, and cracks through which snakes might enter. In particular all openings should be eliminated in and around the foundation, walls, and roof where water pipes, sewers, and utility cables enter or leave. Snakes can pass through openings as small as a quarter of an inch (about the diameter of a typical wooden pencil) and hence all openings of this size or larger should be closed, filled, or covered. Small holes can be filled with caulk or a myriad of artificial adhesives or silicone compounds. Larger openings and holes can be screened (window screening or quarter of an inch hardware cloth), filled with aerosol foam products, covered with siding or metal sheeting or merely stuffed with plastics, cloth, or other pliable products. Just make sure that coverings are sufficiently tight to prevent a snake from forcing its head through any wrinkle or opening. Snakes may enter homes through drains and thus it is important to cover sewer vents on the roof with window screening or quarter of an inch hardware cloth and to reduce contact between roofs and any trees or vines that might provide rooftop access to snakes. Particular attention should be paid to openings in walls or roofs where fresh air intakes, exhausts for kitchen fans, clothes driers, or air conditioning may provide openings in flashing, filters, or moldings that are not secure or properly placed. Snakes can climb on any textured walls or substrates with a roughened surface, so it is important to pay attention to openings considerably above the ground and under eaves. By sealing holes encountered on the outside of the house and also all holes in interior walls and especially those largely hidden behind major appliances, under cabinets, and in rooms where there are major plumbing fixtures, the chances of snakes entering can be significantly reduced. Checking and insuring that flashing at the edges of doors is in place and adequately closely fitted to prevent snakes from entering are equally important.
If a snake is encountered, it can probably be easily dispatched with a blunt object such as a broom handle or a heavy object. Alternatively, it may be possible to temporarily restrain it under an inverted trash can, or to lift it into a large garbage can and cover with a tight fitting lid. A small snake may be extracted from under a low cabinet or other confined space with the tip of a broom handle wrapped in duct tape, adhesive side exposed. A brown Treesnake may be safely handled once it is grasped closely behind its head, but it may be dangerous to grab or touch unidentified snakes that may be encountered. Grabbing a brown Treesnake by the tail and quickly throwing it to an open area where it can be better controlled is easy as long as the movement is accomplished before the snake can turn and attempt to bite. Even when mortally wounded, a snake may continue to wriggle and writhe for some time. As long at it is incapable of coordinated locomotor movements, it need not be further bashed, hacked, or mutilated in response to random and ineffective reflex movements. Remember, you may want someone to positively identify the snake, and the difficulty in making an identification may be increased if you pound it to an unrecognizable pulp or a multitude of pieces.