I used to know the right person to call - a little old lady; however, she swallowed a fly & now…she’d dead, of course.
Nope! Wrong! Doncha know anything? Then he’s have a snake in the basement & would have to get some…mongooses (mongeese?) Then where would we be Mr. Smartypants? Huh, huh, huh? Can you answer me that?
Um…solving problems? And profiting from my mongoose, cat, elephant and snake emporium?
Okay, needing an update here.
Profiting from others snake, mongoose, cat, & elephant problems? Do you know what you are?
Do you franchise?
*“When I was a young man I was led to believe there were organizations to kill my snakes for me
(i.e. the church, i.e. the government, i.e. school)
But when I got a little bit older, I learned I had to kill them myself.”
*–Donovan, Rikki Tikki Tavi
And it’s calling you on the phone. From inside!
Game Commission regional offices.
And you may want to check out
North eastern PA? Okay, I’m safe. shudder
Yet another vote for calling the authorities. I see I’ve been beaten to mentioning the Rat Snake’s habit of playing rattler. I think, not positive, that bull snakes are tail shakers too.
Keep in mind that younger rattlers tend to have stronger venom. It you think you can pick it up because it looks like just a little guy, don’t!
Do they actually have stronger venom or only appear so because equivalent venom in a small body?
I thought the young snakes haven’t learned to control themselves yet and blow their whole load in one bite which was what made them extra dangerous.
Only the boy snakes.
(Was that terrible joke doubly Freudian?)
Well I checked it out and did not find anything. My daughter and granddaughter spent the night at my house.
Yup, this is why baby snakes can be more dangerous – they haven’t learned how much (or little) venom is needed to take down prey; experienced rattlers learn how to deliver a dry or minimal venom bite in defense against threats that aren’t prey (i.e., humans). This is how I ended up with a dry bite from a ginormous rattler. SSSSSssssss . . .
Glad everyone is safe, but a bit disappointed the excitement is over 
So now check out the links below and find out your next steps. Unless somehow you can guarantee there’s no snake or some other animal down there. That would be a major task in my basement, your daughter’s basement may not present such a challenge.
Goddammit, now that I’ve seen that, I think I’ll start peeing in a bucket. Damn you for posting that!
Didn’t you see the second picture with that article? The picture of all those rattlesnakes in a bucket?
I’ve had it with these monkey fighting snakes in this Monday to Friday bucket!