Snake on the roof of our house

where we live about 500m from our home there is a huge wetland thing with water and tall grass and the animal catchers were called something like 80 times last summer to catch snakes from peoples homes and gardens. Animals are atacked a lot as well. it is scary when you think about it. We were told to check our heating as it goes under the house and that is how most snakes get inside (well that is what we were told by the guys that came to our home)

That would be spooky.

A few years ago we had two snakes in our house. Large snakes. A King snake and a Water Mocassin. It was a very exciting and scary experience!

I am so scared of snakes that if I ever see one inside the house I am selling the house and moving to another area. Lucky for me the snakes dont come near the house if they can help it:) there is a lot of housses and fences between me and them.

I'm terrified of snakes, too. The time they were in the house was during some remnodeling. We spotted them and didn't dare let them out of sight and we killed them. I hated to kill the King snake -- I'd seen him around the farm from time to time, but he crossed the line when he came into the house. If we hadn't killed those snakes and had seen them in the house, there is no way I would have slept in that house again. No way!

geee who was the brave person doing the killing I would hace sh!t my self. I think its ilegal in Australia to kill a snake thats why I called profesionals.
my friends live in a rented house and he is so lazy he had not cut the grass in year and a half. His wife was pregnant so his parents came from europe to help with the baby. his father cut the grass and cleaned the rubish and found lots of snakes. few biger and I think 7 small snakes (15-20 cm) long. I would not have stayed in the house as I bet there was more there expecially since it was a rented house they could have moved out expecially with a small baby.

Wow, I can't believe it's against the law to kill a snake there! Wow.

I killed the snakes. The King snake (which eats other snakes and is great to have around) was after the moccasin (which is poisonous.) That's why I didn't want to kill the King.

That's something about your friend not cutting the grass for so long!!

I see snakes around here all the time. All the time, but rarely near the house.

no we have to call special people to catch the snakes and relise them in the wild (so they can atack another person or go into someons house and you have to call them again) and each time they take about $150. aparently it is dangerous to kill them your self (well ok it is but my mother has killed 100s of snakes in her life and she is still with us)

Thanks for the Best Response, violeta_va! I hope you don't have any more snake problems!:)

Nooooo no more snakes but there was one reported in the newspaper last week that was 2 streets from my house.

There is no way the snake would have gone there in such state on its own. There has been a lot of complain about the wet land as no one was looking after it. They said something in the local news paper that they will try and catch the snakes and resetle them in some other place and cut the grass as a little boy was atacked by one few weeks ago but the dog jumped on the snake and the snake bit the dog.

oh dont scare me now I would like to think it was droped there by a bird more than climbing up. I could not live it there with small kids in the house no way.

Since I know there are poisoness snakes in my area my kids have been taught how to identify & handle them. There's no need to fear them if you know what your doing.

My son has developmental delay so teaching him what is dangerous is hard and its even harder when I teach him that snakes are bad and then he goes to a petting zoo or something and they bring a snake for the kids to hold.

That does present a problem. Here in the U.S. all the poisoness snales are pit vipors which are easily identifiable from other non poisoness snakes. From what I understand the snakes in your area aren't so easy to tell apart which would make things even harder.

All the same you shouldn't teach him to fear them. Fear causes panic & accidents. Teach him to respect & avoid them.

well that is the thing most of thm look the same and its not so much that I am teaching him to fear them but teaching him not to go near them because some of them might bite him. But then he goes to a party and they have 10 snakes that look almsot the same as the poison once and they let the kids play with them.

Now if I'd have been showing them at that party I think I would have taken the opportunity to teach them the differences. That's a perfect situation when you could easily get their attention & get them to enjoy learning.