Snake Got In my house!?

Question

A snake got into my house and I have called animal control and they didn't find him.... I need to know where is the most likely place a snake would go once inside, and what if anything can I do to lure it out....????? I have three small children and need answers fast ... PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

A snake would go into a dark place. Unfortunately, houses have many of them. Look where there is the least noise. Crawlspaces, basement, the furthest away from the action the better. You might try live mice to lure it out. Make sure your kids' rooms are totally totally sealed off so it can't get in.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Snakes usually hide in dark areas. So make sure that you don't have any lying clothes around. To lure it out you could make loud noises. Go around your house real quick making a lot of noise, like banging on the walls. This will agitate it and make it want to see were the noise is coming from. That's where you come in and capture it.

Answer 3

I had this happen to a friend of mine. After you put everyone to bed and put other animals up, get some serious glue traps, the kind you use for rats and place them in areas that are dark, like under the couch, etc. She slept with one eye open for about 2 days and finally caught it one morning. You can get them in any hardware store and they really work, but you definately don't want them on a child.

Answer 4

Well, the first thing to do is determine what -kind- of snake you have. Usually snakes in houses are whatever snake is most prevalent in your area, like here in Florida, you end up with black racers in houses, sometimes garter snakes, every now and then a ratsnake, in about that order as far as how often.... in my area at least, this varies widely of course depending on where you are in the world. There are many websites like the following....

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/FL-GUIDE/onlineguide.htm

Which with having a look at the snake in question and answering a few usually simple questions, you can narrow down to what kind of snake you have. Now you know whether it is venomous or not. If it is venomous, you need to take note of where in the house it went. Snakes (at least most in the United States) will NOT act aggressively until/unless you become aggresive towards them first. They will try to go AWAY from noises and agitation before they will come towards whatever is causing vibrations. Remember, in most cases, snakes are prey to larger animals, if you're making a lot of noise, it will hide further into the house. If you do nothing to scare it off, animal control will most likely come in to a room with a snake in the middle of it, rather than a house with a snake somewhere in it. All that snake needs to get in somewhere is a gap about as big as it's head.

Before freaking out over how to get it out, know why it came in to begin with. The weather is changing, it is spring in the northern hemisphere. Snakes regulate their body temperature by moving from warm areas to cool, and vice versa. Have you gotten a lot of rain today or yesterday? Unseasonably warm or cold? Drought conditions? Local brushfires? Many things make reptiles move around, a black racer that lives in your yard, probably cruises by your back door several times a week, it's eating mice and lizards and anything else it can catch that it can swallow, nothing more, and about one meal a week if it's able to catch a good meal. It'll wipe out a nest of mice in one feeding, and maybe not eat again for a month, or just grab a few lizards between the two. So it cruises by the back door in the middle of the day, it's hot, it feels the air conditioning coming from the gap under the door... How's your weatherstripping? How about around the windows? How does your dryer vent to the outside of the house? There are many ways for snakes to get in. Easiest, though? Doors that don't have a tight seal.

If it's a nonvenomous species, you have nothing to worry about, and it will find it's way out on it's own... if you keep the air on, it'll most likely need to warm up somewhere, so it'll go outside. If it's something venomous..... you need to calmly figure out what you've got in your house, if you start digging through stuff trying to find it, making a bunch of noise, and it thinks it's safe hiding under a pile of clothes or a towel or something, you'll probably get yourself bit.

Figure out what you've got. You saw it, right? Give a description, SOMETHING. That way, if you know it's just a ratsnake or a racer or something harmless, you can feel safe digging through your house like a madperson. Also, I doubt anyone would be willing to go looking through your house -for- you without knowing what kind of snake it was, or at least being able to have an idea of what kind of snake it was.


Good luck.

Answer 5

Best way to lure him out is to let him find you ... turn the Air Con wide open ,and go to bed early tonight and he will find you and get under the covers because they love body heat

Answer 6

yeah, the three small children as lures does sound like a good idea