Total panic, just had a snake inside, anyone else had this?  

Thanks for your support angelsmummy, it was really scary but if I had left the house I would have been panicking for ever about where it might have secreted itself only to come out at a later time. No snakes in England, I know, that is where I am from. Plenty of snakes outside here in Greece but after more than 5 years here I am now going to start to worry as the thought of them indoors is horrendous. I have a tame spider Harold on my wall whom I love, he makes webs which trap the mosquitos and is a friendly sort with really thin legs, not big hairy ones.

HAving just discovered the positive rating system I used it for the first time and hit the wrong thing on angelsmummys post, how do I remove it, it was totally unintentional and think I may have ranked the comment as unsuitable.

I dont think it can be reverted but dont worry. Im sure it will be fine! Thanks for letting me know most people wouldnt be so honest and if mylot do investigate it then they may notice your comment after and realise it was a mistake. I have rated you positive :D:D

Thanks for not minding, just done it again, pressed the plus sign and it ended up same as yours, think I'd better keep away from that for now.

Sorry, have to disagree with you, round here snakes are neither beautiful nor endangered and it a daily occurence to see dead ones on the road which have been run over by cars. There seems to be much more than usual this year due to summer starting later. Think I would be laughed out of the country if I called the local police about a snake. The fire brigade is strictly for fires out here and they are already on lookout for fires starting in the heat, you probably recall the fires we had in Greece two years ago. I am very grateful to my spade wielding neighbour.

Well I always believe that every creation of God is beautiful, if not endangered.
I love reptiles and thus iam sad to read your post. I wonder Y peta is not involved if so many snakes get killed there.
Anyways iam not against yr neighbour. He did a brave job. Just for precaution I would say u better talk with the concerned authorities who deal with snakes there.
Here its the fire fighters thus i named them.

Cheers,
Tutul

Tutul, I heard yesterday about a guy who can be telephoned to come round and remove snakes and release them back into the wild so maybe next time I will call.

Thanks for the garlic tip, will try it. As for not leaving the doors open it's impossible with the heat at the moment, it's the only way to get some breeze inside, anyway I am sure they could slither underneath the doors like the geckos do.

Hi Prinzcy, I know about the cat thing but the thing that puts me off that one is all the presents they might bring from the olive groves, mice and even worse, don't think that I could cope with that. There are lots of stray cats which wander around but think they are outnumbered by the snakes this year!

Hi, I can empathise with that after my experience, very cautious to check the bed now at night before getting in. I once dreamt that I had a snake indoors but never actually imagined it would happen. Don't think you need to be young to be disturbed by what you encountered.

That's interesting spalladino, I didn't actually realise before that snakes would have any interest in slithering indoors and haven't previously been worried when seen them lurking around close to the house. I have now taken the preventitive step of buying some foul smelling round ball things which I was advised to place around the perimeter of the house as the snakes can't stand the smell, neither can humans which is why they have to be placed outside. I will be interested to see if they actually work!

Okay mommyboo, please don't give me nightmares, i think a snake in the shower would be the absolutely worst place to encounter one. You were indeed brave.

Okay, I just did a little research on snakes of Greece, and if what you had was a dull green snake, it was likely a green color variation of a grass snake, which is nonvenomous.

Just for future reference. All of the venomous snakes I saw for Greece have a pattern of some sort, and none of them are green.

I hope that eases your mind a little!

Thanks for that Cobra, I really ought to do some research of my own on local snakes, the ones which give me the shivers most are the very long thick black ones which seem to slither along our road so fast they almost disappear in a blink. I have seen the odd patterned one and green ones but not one like the shade of green I had yesterday, at first I thought it was black. Whatever wants to live outside I can put up with but when they start to invade the house they are definitely unwelcome and I am glad it was killed as I have a young son and don't want anything biting him. I am going out shortly to see if I can buy anything to deter them, unfortuantely sonic devices did not work which keep mice away.

This also may help you: snakes do not have an external ear, so anything that makes noise will not work. They sense vibrations in the ground and in the area around them. That is why they stick their tongue out and wiggle it. They are smelling the air around them. Since they cannot hear, they have to rely on other senses.

I live in a highly wooded area and have never had a snake enter my house yet. We keep doors open a lot in the spring and fall. We have insects of all kinds, but no snakes.

Maybe this is a one time occurrence?? Just a thought. I would think the only way snakes would enter a house on a regular basis is if they are denning underneath it. I knew of a house in Texas that had a den of over 200 rattlesnakes under it! Could you imagine seeing those crawling through your house every day? Yikes!

These answers are getting worse, a nest of snakes under the house! Actually I have now found the local solution and taken suitable precautions by buying a bag of smelly white balls called 'Nafalina' and placing them around the perimeter of the house, apparently snakes can't stand the smell Neither can humans which is why we put them outside.

Good! I hope that works out for you!

I didn't tell you the story about the snakes denning under someone's house to freak you out. I really hope it didn't! That rarely happens. It was a fluke thing.

Hopefully that smelly repellent you bought will work! You probably won't have ANYTHING coming around your house, including guests!

Inside a kitchen cabinet, any more places these things can get. Seriously with that I probably would have fainted dead away.