Found one in the back yard few days ago, at least my son did. Kept hollering at me about a me putting a "fake snake" in the yard. I replied "I don't own any fake snakes son, if it's out there it's real" He wisely took a few steps back, turned out to be a Rat snake about 4-5 ft long biggest I'd seen in my yard in a long time. Moved him to the back of my place to a wood pile.

Moved one off my back patio this morning, Forgot how bad they stink, dog had really gotten him angry

If it were my wife, our house would be up for sale no doubt.

Rat snake Keith! Sorry to hear that your wife was bite as stated watch the bite make sure it is cleaned often. I would also check for mice or rats in or around house. That's most likely why the snake was around

Funny thing about Lake Athens is, while we have every kind of bird/mammal/fish and others you can imagine, I can't recall seeing many, if any, water snakes on the lake. And, I am out a LOT and in the shallow places one would expect to see them. I think I might have seen one over the last 2 years, but not even sure about that.

Rat snakes? Oh yes! We had one come out of the little forest next to our home and it was close to a 6 footer. She came out to hunt in the late evening. I find small ones all the time.

I should know, degree'd in Biology, but I don't and am wondering whether the local rat snake population have eliminated water snakes? Hmm? King snakes eat other snakes, others too, not sure whether rat snakes munch on water snakes or not.

Anyway, I love rat snakes . . . I just don't want to get tagged by one so I just ignore them. Outside, that is! Ha!

Brad

Last year I reached into a box of trash bags sitting on a picnic table on our back porch to pull out a trash bag. The same species rat snake struck and bit me in the hand before I even knew he was there. They can be deadly......I almost died of a heart attack!

All over the place x 10

These are useful reptiles but i still dislike them.

Wow

Oh, Hell no.

Snake story...I spent my childhood summers on the farm with my grandparents when school was out. I mean out in the country in SE Missouri.
They had an wood frame farmhouse that sit out between the cotton, soy bean, and corn fields,..anyway,
a 'snake' had gotten inside the wall between the kitchen and the living room. Well grandma would tell grandpa it was there and he'd go in kitchen
and listen at the wall and couldn't hear anything....this went on for a couple of days. She'd say "hear it, hear it,...there it is", he'd keep listening and would tell
her "aint nothing there..!!" Finally she told him "there it is, I can feel it moving in there"....he finally agreed there was something there, he told her to
get the broom and point the handle where she thought it was,......he took his 12 gauge and blowed a 2 foot hole through the wall.
What was left of that snake ended up in the living room in pieces. For years and years grandma would tell that story anytime someone would ask about
the big patch in the wall. She never mention anything about noises in the wall again....

If a snake is in my house, then I am gone. Bye, bye. I have 2 killer cats who love to kill snakes, but I have no intention of watching them. Snakes are just seriously disgusting.

All funny stuff. She is just fine but still shy , we live on a farm so I guess we have to deal with it.

Looks like a plastic covered rat snake.