Animal Science

reptiles like warm places.

Why is the PC box (or photo?) upside down??

Probably because someone was carrying the computer when the snake popped its head out and they dropped the thing on the floor & it just happened to land that way.

That's what I was thinking, too! Or maybe it was just being stored that way.

Seemed odd way to store it...perhaps the owner doesn't have OCD....

How else would one get the snake out?

Turning it through 90° so the vents were on the bottom...

It's not. Lots of PC cases have the power supply in the top so the heat doesn't accumulate around the mother board.

Look at the label.

probably on my side of the globe, everything is upside down here

(truly? i think for dramatic purposes, it looks creepier, when the snake crawls out of the fan like this)

oh dear...I think only Slacky realised I was pulling its* leg...

Darn those throwaway remarks!

You need to attend Sweetwater Texas's annual rattle snake round up.

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Hey guys,

Last spring I found a snake in my bedroom.

I ran downstairs and picked up a pair of thick gloves

and a pair of big longnose snippers and I ran back

upstairs to the bedroom and I killed it.

But the strange thing was; that a few weeks before this incident

I actually had a dream of seing a snake in my computer room.

Well; after I had killed that beast I told my wife and she knew about my dream, because I had told her when I woke up in the morning after I had had that dream.

And she said: Remember the dream you had and I said; Yes I do.

Then I also went and searched my computer-room and guess what I found. ?

I found the skin or scale (or whatever it's called) between the cables

on the floor around the base of the computer.

Why do we get dreams like that. And who gives them to us ????

God or satan ?????????

Why do we get what's called "Garbage-Dreams"

TTYL

Jens

Must apologize for the 'anonymous' god gifted idiot remark. Had misread your posting to mean you had actually killed the snake.......not dreamt it.

sorry

Snakes are sensitive to heat signatures too. Houses will have a lot of heating or heated stuffs in them that attract snakes that are looking for a warm place to snuggle up...

I used to have snakes problems outside my house too (luckily there were not in the house, I would have freaked out big time!). One of the effective ways that I found was having a few dogs (I had 5). The dogs will not attack nor gobble up the snakes, but having dogs running around in the garden will somehow make my garden less attractive to snakes, as snakes will normally prefer quieter and less distrubed places. When there is a snake, the dogs will also bark (they freaked out big time too!) to warn you.

Has anybody considered getting an Indian mongoose (or a few) as a pet? They will keep you safe, and you keep them happy!

"The dogs will not attack nor gobble up the snakes..."

I've got a Border Collie that would disagree: he attacked and killed several this past summer. Ate at least one of them, maybe others. Most of those that I know about were under landscaping plastic in the vegetable garden, and he went nosing underneath and dug them out. Luckily for him, there are no poisonous ones around here (SE Wisconsin USA). I'd rather have them around to keep the mouse population down, actually - but he also hunts mice & squirrels, the occasional possum, and...

My uncle had a pair of Rough Collies on the farm that would attack every snake the came upon. Even Copper Heads. There are many dogs that will attack and kill snakes.

Everybody listen! We have to put a barrier between us and the snakes!

There are renowned red garter snake dens not far from where I live. We went last spring and this is similar to what we saw...

There's a female somewhere in there. All that hissing and writhing was unnerving. Kind of stinky too.

When I lived in southern Alberta, I came across a rattler while biking in the river valley. I was so startled that I careened off the path and proceeded to perform the most epic wipeout my friends had ever seen. I didn't get bitten but my bike was a writeoff and there are places on my arms and legs where I don't tan. Stoopid snake.

Not really. There's only one poisonous snake in the UK and they are not that common.

On one occasion a Grass Snake caused a bit of commotion in the garden. About 0.4m long, all it did on discovery was lick its lips and scurry away into the undergrowth never to be seen again. Bit of a shame really, as its visual qualities far outweighed its ability to do any damage to either persons or property.

I was bitten (well "gummed" since they don't have teeth or fangs) by a grass snake when I was six. It was not the snake's fault - after a day in an infant school class, it had to be mightily pi$$ed off, even if I was just rescuing it from another kid and returning it to the bucket of grass. The teachers & my Mum were more feaked than I was! It was very similar to being bitten by a tortoise.

For the record, one of the teachers found it in her garden and brought it in for the school secretary to release in the fields near her home...it just spent the day with us.

They are very pretty animals - and remarkable strong for their size.

by a weird coincidence, I was cycling home for lunch today (Tuesday) and there was a snake on the path (it's a shared path) I stopped to photograph it but it was long gone by the time my phone was out. A brown one, I just looked on an image search and it's a grass snake I think. Remember this is the UK, most people I know have only seen a snake on TV or at the zoo.