RangerDanger
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This occured about 4 years ago.
I was walking down the hall one evening, from the computer room to the living room.
The house is L-shaped, and I reached the point where a right turn leads to the bathroom/side porch, and to turn left leads into the living room.
As I reached that point I heard a sound that I am familiar with--the rattle of a rattlesnake.
I look over to the right and a 4' rattlesnake was curling up right outside the bathroom door.
As a lifelong SoCal backpacker I am well aware of what rattlesnakes sound like.
It's a sound that, once you hear it, you pretty much know what it is--and you'll never forget that sound.
So I've heard it maybe a dozen times in my decades of backpacking.
But not in a house.
In fact, that is like a nightmare to me--a rattlesnale loose in the house.
When encountering a snake in the woods, my tactic was simply to back up and wait. The smake after awhile would continue on it's way, crossing the trail, and then I'd proceed.
Not really an option here.
Luckily there was a piece of plywood nearby, which I immediently set up, blocking the bathroom/hall area off from the rest of the house.
Now what?
I have a 12- gauge shotgun, but i didn't want to blow a hole in the wall/floor plus get snake blood everywhere.
I called 911 and got one of Trinity County's finest and laid out the sitch and he said "You got a broom?"
"Yes" I replied.
"Well there ya go" he said.
"well I'm afraid of being bitten."
"Oh don't worry" the cop says, "their bite won't kill you. We aren't comig out there, bye."
After putting my disabled brother in my van, I went to the barn and got a hoe. I figured I could hack it to death behind the plywood barrier.
When I got back I found the snake was gone. It had left via the way it got in--through the pet door on the back porch.
At least I assumed it left that way--I didn't see it leave.
I spent a very uneasy night. There was a small chance that the snake had somehow manuvered around the barrier and was still in the house.
The next morning I went out and spent $100 for this electronic deal that consisted of a pet door that was locked unless the other part of the set-up--a device I attached to my dog's collar--was next to the pet door.
I never saw the snake again but for a week or more I was still kinda antsy.
I was walking down the hall one evening, from the computer room to the living room.
The house is L-shaped, and I reached the point where a right turn leads to the bathroom/side porch, and to turn left leads into the living room.
As I reached that point I heard a sound that I am familiar with--the rattle of a rattlesnake.
I look over to the right and a 4' rattlesnake was curling up right outside the bathroom door.
As a lifelong SoCal backpacker I am well aware of what rattlesnakes sound like.
It's a sound that, once you hear it, you pretty much know what it is--and you'll never forget that sound.
So I've heard it maybe a dozen times in my decades of backpacking.
But not in a house.
In fact, that is like a nightmare to me--a rattlesnale loose in the house.
When encountering a snake in the woods, my tactic was simply to back up and wait. The smake after awhile would continue on it's way, crossing the trail, and then I'd proceed.
Not really an option here.
Luckily there was a piece of plywood nearby, which I immediently set up, blocking the bathroom/hall area off from the rest of the house.
Now what?
I have a 12- gauge shotgun, but i didn't want to blow a hole in the wall/floor plus get snake blood everywhere.
I called 911 and got one of Trinity County's finest and laid out the sitch and he said "You got a broom?"
"Yes" I replied.
"Well there ya go" he said.
"well I'm afraid of being bitten."
"Oh don't worry" the cop says, "their bite won't kill you. We aren't comig out there, bye."
After putting my disabled brother in my van, I went to the barn and got a hoe. I figured I could hack it to death behind the plywood barrier.
When I got back I found the snake was gone. It had left via the way it got in--through the pet door on the back porch.
At least I assumed it left that way--I didn't see it leave.
I spent a very uneasy night. There was a small chance that the snake had somehow manuvered around the barrier and was still in the house.
The next morning I went out and spent $100 for this electronic deal that consisted of a pet door that was locked unless the other part of the set-up--a device I attached to my dog's collar--was next to the pet door.
I never saw the snake again but for a week or more I was still kinda antsy.
I can't believe they wouldn't send some sort of animal control. 
