Sorry no picture. This morning as I sat down at my desk at 6:45 AM for a little quite time before opening the shop for the day I heard a small crack sound. I looked over in the dirrection and nothing a few seconds a minite or 2 late out of the corner of my eys [hunter eye] I see a movement. As I watch a head slides out on the wall behing a small bolt of upholstry. I watch this Black snake make his way half way up the brick wall so I pick up my camra but he's getting close to the hole in the ceiling so no time for a pic. I took him off the wall and placed him in a containner.

Now I'm wondering; is this the same Black snake that the Mexicans from new door were going to kill that I resqued from them 2 weeks ago or another one. He's the same size about 5.5' with a little white showing through on his back. I think he was in the office because I have a baby mouse I cought in a mouse cage or he is just hunting , this shop has mice. Should I let him lose in the shop. I don't see any harm in having aBlack snake in here and obveously he's been around for a while but he's made himself known quite a bit lately. Customers would surely go nuts if they saw him maybe. My leae would be a good place for him to survive, what the virdic ?

Is he dangerous? If not, I'd chalk it up to "character" for the shop and keep him happy. Think of the free advertising you'll have from bug eyed clients!
Cheers!

No he is a radent eatter, Common black snake.

Keep him make him or HER happy like Ian said , and give him or HER a name...how about

Shadow

or

squatter or squaterette :rolleyes: :p :)

right!

ummmmm, is this a workshop that customers come into and buy your wares or hire you??? i dunno about the snake thing. generally, i'm sorta o.k. with them, in theory. but, every time i see when i about jump outa my skin. even when i kinow it's perfectly harmless. they startle me.

so, if you follow ian & digitl's advice and keep it in your shop, be prepared for accidents. though i've never peed my pants in fright, i've heard it *can* happen..... :eek:

you could start a poll here and see what the prevelence of people who are scared of snakes is. i'd guess it isn't far behind the fear of death, fear of public speaking and fear of heights though.....

i'll be curious to hear what you do with the little cutie.... :faint:

:D,

w.

I'd be the first one to faint while peeing my pants lmbo

I wanted to wait before responding to this until I read what wheezie and futs had to say. :D

If you keep him in your shop are you going to let him snack on Stewart Little?

If you keep the snake around what happens if he gets out? He could go looking for available mice next door.

He could eat more mice than his fill and get a belly ache.

He could end up dead at your neighbors store and then where would we be?

Be nice to your friend and set him free in the lea. :D

Well, he is back on the job. I released him into the galy of the shop and he went right to the opening which is above the office ceilings where I hear the mice run all day.
>If he heads next door to the marble shop he will have plenty to eat over their also. But he will have to watch out for the machienery when moves the marble around and all the Mexicans who want to kill him.
>I hope he just goes back to being ingognedo and doing his JOB ! LOL

My shop is a furniture refinishing shop , there are a few customers who come in to view their furniture while work is in progress but as long as I lead them through, which I normaley have done for 8 years things will be fine.

what species is he, he sounds alot like a carpet python, I have 2 living in our attic eating rats. Actully I have seen thousands of snakes right here in my own back yard we have redbellies, yellow faced whip snakes, eastern brown, carpet pythons, green tree snakes, Marsh snakes etc. For someone who hates snakes Australia is not the greatest place to come because it is almost certain you see one, although they usally just slither away, suprisingly I have lived in Aussie land all my life and never stepped on one. What species is your snake?

You don't seem that scared of it and you picking it up makes it sound tame unless you used the pole with the hook.

It is probably a blacksnake or a rat snake. They will eat other snakes, and they will reduce the rodent populaiton for you.

Find a nice place at the edge of some woods with a nice meadow that has lots of field mice and let him go. These guys are nice animals to have around.

Me :D



Sorry no picture. This morning as I sat down at my desk at 6:45 AM for a little quite time before opening the shop for the day I heard a small crack sound. I looked over in the dirrection and nothing a few seconds a minite or 2 late out of the corner of my eys [hunter eye] I see a movement. As I watch a head slides out on the wall behing a small bolt of upholstry. I watch this Black snake make his way half way up the brick wall so I pick up my camra but he's getting close to the hole in the ceiling so no time for a pic. I took him off the wall and placed him in a containner.

Now I'm wondering; is this the same Black snake that the Mexicans from new door were going to kill that I resqued from them 2 weeks ago or another one. He's the same size about 5.5' with a little white showing through on his back. I think he was in the office because I have a baby mouse I cought in a mouse cage or he is just hunting , this shop has mice. Should I let him lose in the shop. I don't see any harm in having aBlack snake in here and obveously he's been around for a while but he's made himself known quite a bit lately. Customers would surely go nuts if they saw him maybe. My leae would be a good place for him to survive, what the virdic ?

Keep him as a Rodent Eterminator

If you do it correct you could right him off as an income tax deduction

I haven't heard mice running around in my ceiling for a few days now. I know after he;s done his job here he'll move to the next shop. It's probably been the way he has lived, moving from one shop to the other, chaseing the mice. Rat Snake or Black Snake , think their the same.

lmbo I read this earlier but am having trouble with our new internet hookup so I couldn't respond but I've walked around all day singing "rat snake or black snake for goodness sakes" theres more words but highly innappropriate. *grins naughtily*

Black snakes are huge and bite. I had one slither through my yard and bite my dog in the nose. Pup was just curious. I'd pee and then flee if I saw one in any shop.

If I were to walk into a shop and I saw a snake, I would probably immediately bring it to someones attention. I am not afraid of snakes but would not expect to see one just crawling casually around the floor. Perhaps you can put a sign on the door saying "GUARD SNAKE ON DUTY" or something, so that if someone were afraid or allergic to snakes, they would know prior to walking in that they may encounter one. You wouldn't want to be responsible for someone having a heart attack from seeing one. :)


I have a story to add to your snake story.

One night, I was on the computer very, very late trying to get some last minute homework done. All the lights were out except for the pc monitor screen and the light from the big fish tank we had.

I was to the point that I was delirious, sleep deprived and my eyes could not focus.

ALL OF A SUDDEN, something caught my eye. I looked down on the floor and saw this HUGE BROWNISH BLACK TARANTULA crawling across the carpet toward where my daughter was sleeping. I totally freaked out.

I immediately jumped up, grabbed a shoe and went after it and smashed it.

I heard a CRACK and a CRUNCH and thought ****, that was a pretty tough spider.

I kind of just scooted it over to the side of the room so that I could show my family in the morning.

The next day, while I was at work, my son called me and sounded very down. Turns out, it wasn't a TARANTULA after all. It was a big crab that they had just bought that night for in the fishtank. I guess someone didn't close the lid tight. Oh well....

One man's pet is another man's pest (or nightmare) in my case. :)

DaveHawk,

Any sign of your big black snake lately?

Hey, wait a minute....By looking at your user name, you don't happen to have a pet hawk, do you? That perhaps ate your snake? (Just a thought....)

Hi Dave,

When I lived in rural Texas, a snake very much like the one you described used to come in through the septic system and enter the house via the toilet. I never bothered him and he never bothered me. But he seemed to bother the rattlesnakes that lived under the house. They packed their bags and left. ;)

P.S. I always looked before I sat down.

I'm so grateful somedays that the great white north has no dangerous snakes. I've been bit hard by a garter snake once but I only had to worry about cleaning the wound not suviving it!

No snake latery, I think he learned his leaaon about showing his self. No Hawk either, but I have always wanted to get into falconty, neet sport to be one with a bird of pray.