DawnM Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 My husband is needing to replace some drywall in our basement garage. He found a FULL snake skin in the rafters....... GAH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyoffive Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 ahhhhhhhh you dont live in the south right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Burn the house!!! 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storygirl Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 :eek: Oh no!!! I would freak OUT!! :willy_nilly: Be sure to have him search everywhere up there, to make sure the skin's former occupant is not curled up somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Can you identify what kind of snake skin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 (edited) Great! My kids would have been thrilled to have found a snake skin. What kind of snake? Edited September 16, 2017 by regentrude 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 (edited) http://snakesarelong.blogspot.com/2012/04/identifying-snake-sheds.html Here's an article giving ideas on how to identify sheds from one of DD's favorite people :) In general, rafters probably means rat snake. A few other options, but rat snakes tend to be the ones who both climb and are most likely to go in buildings. Venomous in the USA are more fossorial or semi-aquatic, and rarely climb. They're a lot more likely to be in a crawl space than in the rafters. Edited September 16, 2017 by dmmetler 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 I think that is neat! The snake was probably protecting your home from rodents. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK_Mom4 Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 There’s a 5+ foot long snake skin on top of my piano. DD16 is displaying it because it’s apparently nearly perfect. This is the skin from the snake that lives in the same room and comes out of his hide whenever DD plays piano. Her theory is that he likes piano. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 There’s a 5+ foot long snake skin on top of my piano. DD16 is displaying it because it’s apparently nearly perfect. This is the skin from the snake that lives in the same room and comes out of his hide whenever DD plays piano. Her theory is that he likes piano. Please tell me it resides in a cage/aquarium most of the time and not under the piano or in the walls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 It was prob. a black rat snake. They are quite common. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 ahhhhhhhh you dont live in the south right? Yes, I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 It was prob. a black rat snake. They are quite common. They are very beneficial. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 They are very beneficial. Yeah, not to my heart. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Better than the skunk skin I found in our foundation. :P 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daria Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Great! My kids would have been thrilled to have found a snake skin. What kind of snake? Hopefully, a long gone one! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyoffive Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Yeah, not to my heart. Yeah I would be in the hospital I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Laminating snake sheds works well to preserve them. They tend to turn to dust otherwise. (DD collects them, and has several pretty exotic ones from zoos, as well as a bunch from pet snakes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Yeah, not to my heart. See that is my problem. Intellectually I am pro-benefit of snake. But the brain cannot seem to control the fear factor that says, "Nuke the place!" It is a good thing we have rational people like Dmmelter's dd and company to prevent people like me from being in charge a committing snake genocide. I get it from my mom. When I was a kid, she saw a little garden snake in the yard while mowing with a self propelled mower, she screamed, ran down the street, and the mower kept going until it ran into a tree. I blame genetics on my problem! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Laminating snake sheds works well to preserve them. They tend to turn to dust otherwise. (DD collects them, and has several pretty exotic ones from zoos, as well as a bunch from pet snakes). How would that work? You put it through the laminator at the local teacher store? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 H I B E R N A C U L U M 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selkie Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 :svengo: I'm getting palpitations just thinking about a snake in the rafters. Snakes need to stay far, far away from me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 Intellectually I am not pro-snake! :lol: I grew up where 90% of them would kill you on the spot. Those huge black "beneficial" snakes look pretty much just like a black mamba. :crying: :crying: :crying: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 How would that work? You put it through the laminator at the local teacher store? We have a home laminator for small ones, and with pouches, you can just put the shed flat in the pouch, which leaves both sides visible. For big ones that need a roll laminator, mounting them to paper first is a good idea because they're so thin, so we usually slit them so they can be opened and both the scales and belly scutes be visible. Putting them in a picture frame also works, but laminating usually lets the texture still be felt, which is nice for educational purposes. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 I'd rather find the snake skin than the 6 live mice our traps caught last week! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Intellectually I am not pro-snake! :lol: I grew up where 90% of them would kill you on the spot. Those huge black "beneficial" snakes look pretty much just like a black mamba. :crying: :crying: :crying: I can see that. It's kind of like the reason why Australian Broadcasting Services won't show kids shows focusing on "spiders are our friends"-because the last thing you want to do in Australia is teach kids to NOT be wary of spiders! It's a lot easier to be calm around a snake in the rafters when there are no venomous arboreal snakes than if your brain knows that what looks like a hanging vine may have fangs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 I'd rather find the snake skin than the 6 live mice our traps caught last week! We caught 2 in the last 2 weeks in our kitchen, one of them ran right near my feet one morning. I lost it! So, this snake has either been gone a while or is NOT doing its job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 (edited) Duplicate post... Edited September 16, 2017 by dmmetler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookbard Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 It's kind of like the reason why Australian Broadcasting Services won't show kids shows focusing on "spiders are our friends"- I saw that on the news (that they weren't showing the spider episode from Peppa Pig), but I was perplexed as we've seen it on the ABC heaps of times! Maybe they've decided not to repeat it for the #1000th time?? Here's a snake story - years ago, my little brother reckoned he saw a brown snake in the study in our house. We all pooh-poohed it, why would a brown snake be in the house? (They are highly venomous and basically you won't survive if you get a proper bite). Sure enough though, we later found the skin in the study in the house! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 I saw that on the news (that they weren't showing the spider episode from Peppa Pig), but I was perplexed as we've seen it on the ABC heaps of times! Maybe they've decided not to repeat it for the #1000th time?? Here's a snake story - years ago, my little brother reckoned he saw a brown snake in the study in our house. We all pooh-poohed it, why would a brown snake be in the house? (They are highly venomous and basically you won't survive if you get a proper bite). Sure enough though, we later found the skin in the study in the house! :ohmy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 We caught 2 in the last 2 weeks in our kitchen, one of them ran right near my feet one morning. I lost it! So, this snake has either been gone a while or is NOT doing its job. Time to get a new snake ;) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth86 Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 Ugh. My inlaws found a huge snake skin in their house, but never the snake. It is always on my mind when we are there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 Time to get a new snake ;) Nopity nope nope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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