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

Oh wow! I would have left my house and not come back! Well done you for staying there. I live in England and we dont have any snakes here apart from the ones in zoos but I am sooo scared of them!! I have just had a spider on my wall Im still scared to move lol. You are so lucky that your neighbour heard you couldve turned out so differently!

Hey, Wow thats interesting. But u know what instead of killing the snake , it would have been wise to take him back to some safe place like zoo etc. In case it happens again u can call the fire brigade or the police. They will handle the situation better than some neighbour. The reason iam saying that is bexoz first snakes are beautiful creatures and very endangered. And if that was a dangerous snake Your neighbour could have been in trouble as well. So y not call a pro and handle the situation better. I would say u shd call the fire brigade team and tell what happened. They will guide u better and give all the required safety tips. Cheers, Tutul

Hi Thea! I live in south Florida and, while we've never found a snake in our house, my step-daughter has. A snake will crawl though any opening it can find, even a small one, so you need to check both the inside and outside of your home for access points. There have been snakes found in clothes dryers because they crawled in through and unscreened vent. Any pipes that go from inside to the outside...under the sink or for the washing maching...should have insulation foam around them. Another deterrent is having a cat or dog in the house. Snakes have a very good sense of smell and will usually avoid entering homes with pets because they are perceived as potential threats to the snake. I have also read...but haven't tried this myself...that if you place a length of thick rope around the parameter of your house, a snake will avoid coming close because the rope looks like a large snake to it. My theory about snakes, by the way, has always been to err on the side of caution. We have a canal in our yard and we've seen snakes from time to time outside. If it's not close to the house and is headed for the water...or off of our property...we'll leave it alone but if it's near the house, which some have been, it's killed.

Oh dear, that's sacry. my grandma's house before has always a snake inside the house and it's scares me and i never dare to sleep without a net. They said, snakes are afraid of the smells of garlic, so try to plant garlic vines around your garden to stop them from coming in. Hope you feel better sooner. Don't let the door open most of time.

Hi thea09, I live in an apartment ( we call it flat in India) and i dont live on ground floor so we never had a snake in our home in new delhi but our ancestral home is in village and as you know India is one the those country which have lots and lots of snakes and we find it everywhere. So when ever i go to my village home there i can suddenly find a snake passing through the garden and once i had visited the local government hospital in my village and that day they had killed a snake which had crawled inside the operation theatre. How it came there no one knew but yes it is common in rural India to find snakes in home as unwanted guests.

Where do you live? If it was anywhere in the U.S., then that was not a dangerous snake. If you live in Australia, Africa, or in South America somewhere, it could have been. To remove it, just get a long stick or something and try to pick it up. A long branch that has multiple twigs on it is good, because the snake can weave itself around the branches. Or you can use a broom or something and try to guide it out the door. Relocation is always better than killing it. Snakes deserve to live too! Keep in mind that it was likely after something else that happened to reside in your house, not you! There are only a few snakes in the world that will go after people, and they are WAY too big to enter the house unnoticed! The only way to keep snakes out is to make sure you don't have any holes or crevices larger than the size of a pencil eraser in your walls, inside cabinets, or anywhere else that could lead either directly or indirectly to the outside. If a snake's skull can fit through an opening, its entire body can fit through the opening.

I have had two incidents of snakes in my house. When it is cooler outside, we DO open up our sliding door out to the pool from our bedroom, so that's probably how the snakes came in in the first place. Anyway, the first time was a couple years ago - I was getting my daughter into the shower (she was three) and as I was helping her, I saw the snake in there. I just grabbed her out and shut the door to the shower to keep it from getting out and yelled for my husband. He trapped it and took it outside and TOOK PICTURES OF IT. LOL! The second time I was at my computer probably on facebook.... and I suddenly heard something weird, so I looked over and there against the wall coming out from behind my husband's computer tower was a snake.... and it wouldn't have freaked me out so much except that it kept coming and COMING! It was huge! Since my daughter wasn't in the bedroom, I yelled a few obscene things and jumped up to get away from the desk. Hubby had to open the door all the way and move a piece of furniture and chase the snake out the door with a broom. Neither of them were dangerous but I still maintain they do NOT belong in the house!!

I would be shaking too. I live in the southeastern part of the US and we have some dangerous snakes here, rattlesnakes, moccasin, coral and a few other. We are also over run with large, nonpoisonous snakes. I don't want any of them in my yard much less my house. My mother-in-law has had three in her house over the last ten years. I learned along time ago, if a mouse can get in, a snake can get in. I had cats at one time and they did an excellent job alerting me to where mice were coming in at and I plugged all the holes I could find. So far, there hasn't been a problem. If this was a poisonous snake, you really need to figure out how it came in and plug the hole. I don't think I could live in a house where a poisonous snake got in. My toes curl up just thinking about it.

we had experience it too.. a snake was found inside at a kitchen cabinet. just woke up one morning heard loud voices downstairs, i didn't go near the area coz i never like snakes. My brother got rid of the snake by striking it with a big knife.

That sounds terrifying. The worst I've ever had is spiders (I don't think any of them have been dangerous), and that's been enough for me to keep my bedroom window closed all summer lol. Do you have screens on your doors and windows, for when you leave them open?

Poor you, it must be scary. It's lucky your neighbour was around and able to come for a rescue. Since I live in a village, there's a couple of times when something wild outside like snakes, scorpions or centipedes get into my house. It's unavoidable. We can kill them, but they keep showing back, one after another. That's why it's important to keep a cat around (and I have 7 now, including 4 kittens)

yes i have had a snake crawled beside me some years back and that was when i was sleeping and suddenly i woke up only to see the snake by the door, i immidiately alerted everyone , we killed the sname but i could not sleep that night because i was much younger then, i think snakes do not harm people when they are not disturbed

This experience always gives of goose atoms everytime i tell it to my friends. It happened when we had a vacation in our province here in the Philippines. I was taking my bath at that time in a small bathroom and it was outside of the house. I was already about to finish my bathing when a baby brown snake fell from the rooftop of that room. It was three feet long and it crawled on the floor that is made of large pebbles. I shouted very loud and scream and my siblings and my parents were alarmed. I went out bare naked (and thats the humiliating part) and thank God i was not bitten. I was eleven years old then and i was so humiliated and shocked on what had happened.

I had that experience back then when I was in high school. I woke up and went downstairs to take a shower. When I was downstairs and walking towards the bathroom, a snake was slivering just a meter away from me. I ran back to the stairs and shouted! My sister and our helper would not believe me that a snake was inside the house and said that I must be dreaming especially since the day before that, my young cousin received a snake toy that when you hold the tip of the snake toy, it glides like snake does! A few minutes sitting at the stairs afraid to come down, I heard a shout. It was the helper. As she open the main door, the snake was hiding somewhere there. It was scary.

It happened to me too. The rain was so strong at that time. There a little flood inside our house. The snake was swimming in the water. Luckily, it was small. But we didn't know where it went so it was very dangerous to just walk carelessly. I don't like snakes because I think they bite cute humans like me.