Ah, home sweet home. You, your partner, pets, and a snake den.
I’d have to find another place to live until they were gone. :eek:
Glad the snakes weren’t killed. Relocating is a better option. But, will more snakes visit and lay eggs under there for next year?
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In 2009 I moved into a house in Spearfish, South Dakota, that also had a garter snake den under it.
My response was…
“Awesome!”
Loved seeing 20+ snakes every day slithering about the place.
We have rat snakes that live under our house and porch. We’re glad they are there because they help to keep the field mouse population down. The snakes don’t want to come into the house - the mice do!
When we had a tin roof put on our cabin, they found that the attic was filled with snakes, including copperheads.
Our historic adobe in a border mining town was much more pleasant after the huge scorpion nest was removed from under the floorboards .
Our house in Dallas also had a nest of scorpions in the crawl spouse under the house. Then my father ran over baby copperhead snakes while mowing the lawn :eek:
Garter snakes? Meh. Wait until you encounter a possum in your garage one night, with the streetlight reflected in her orange, beady eyes.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, that could be a problem! 
Link to a show called Infested!, with a garter snake den under their house. Also in Colorado. They couldn’t sell their house, and allowed it to be foreclosed on.
If the couple did not say to the exterminator either “I’m tired of these motherfucking snakes in my motherfucking house” or “Snakes–why’d it have to be snakes”, then they really aren’t the type of people that I would like to meet.
Welcome to my life. We had a snake-pocolypse last spring. We’re hoping it doesn’t repeat this year.
Mr.Wrekker has killed a couple in the barn around his big stack of dog food bags. Mice hang out there. So it attracts varmits.
The snakes are eating the mice. They are not eating the dog food. Why kill the snakes?
I’m a certified snake aficionado.
Snakes are ok up and until you reach in a wood pile and there are 2 rattlesnakes, rattlin’ at you.
The barn snakes have been poisionous, overwhelmingly.
I don’t deny they are catching rats and probably helping, to an extent.
I have grandchildren roaming the place, small dogs and a barn cat. Chickens and Quail.
I need as few poisonous snakes as possible, around here.
We knew upon building here we’d encounter wildlife. And have. But, like the feral pig situation the snakes became a HUGE problem last year.
Sometimes you have to make choices. I choose not to be bitten by a poisonous snake.
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Interesting video about Cottonmouth/ Water Moccasins.
I saw chicken snakes at my uncle’s farm. They raided the hen houses for eggs.
We caught a few. They’re not poisonous.
Well, it’s better than having an ancient Indian burial ground underneath it.
We all know how that turns out.
Or, that famous movie quote: “You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn’t you? You *** ** * *****, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones!”
<pedant> Snakes are venomous, not poisonous. </pedant>
Climbable boulders loomed near my Mojave Desert shack oh so long ago. My rock-climbing class taught a valuable lesson: always carry a stick. Before reaching up for the next handhold, scrape the rock with the stick, to awaken any rattlesnakes sunning there. If rattling is heard, choose another handhold.
That shack was cinderblocks on a concrete slab. Others of our residences sat on solid slabs - no sub-floor area for critters to infest. Anything living under the slab probably won’t be too much bother. Except for tremors.
This year should be, well, interesting. Normally, the deep cold winter severely reduced the critter population. It has NOT been all that cold this year, so the varmints will be roaming free. Saw my first squished skunk of the year, over a month early this time around.