How To Trap A Garden Snake

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Posted: 6/29/2023 6:21:45 PM EDT

Ok,,Help needed. Our home has a door on the outside that opens into a "storage" area that also houses one of the air handling units and a gas water heater. It is air conditioned and heated. A four ft. green "garden" snake has taken up residence at least part time. He crawls in/out with the door shut. I don't know how he does it but the wife has seen him half in AND half out more than once. He stays around the house and I don't want to kill him. I've caught him once and turned him loose in the woods but no joy. He likes AC.

I need to trap him and THEN modify the bottom of the door so that he can't get in there. Using gas to drive him out as the pilot light on both devices will blow us up. Any ideas??

Posted: 6/29/2023 6:23:59 PM EDT

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4' green? That's awesome. Any particular reason you want him gone?

ETA: if should be fairly calm, especially since you have caught it once before. If you see it, grab it and just take it much further away.

Posted: 6/29/2023 6:25:47 PM EDT

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Tons of videos on YouTube catching snakes with minnow traps, using an egg for bait. Bought one 4 or 5 years ago. Set it every summer, all over the property. Haven't caught the 1st snake.

Posted: 6/29/2023 6:26:52 PM EDT

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Ok,,Help needed. Our home has a door on the outside that opens into a "storage" area that also houses one of the air handling units and a gas water heater. It is air conditioned and heated. A four ft. green "garden" snake has taken up residence at least part time. He crawls in/out with the door shut. I don't know how he does it but the wife has seen him half in AND half out more than once. He stays around the house and I don't want to kill him. I've caught him once and turned him loose in the woods but no joy. He likes AC.

I need to trap him and THEN modify the bottom of the door so that he can't get in there. Using gas to drive him out as the pilot light on both devices will blow us up. Any ideas??

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This; but with a Baby Mouse suspended over a bucket.

Posted: 6/29/2023 6:27:26 PM EDT

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If I lived by you I’d come catch it for you.

Posted: 6/29/2023 6:34:52 PM EDT

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And then properly ID it??

Posted: 6/29/2023 6:46:12 PM EDT

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Just pick it up? The bigger question is why are you trying to get rid of a beneficial snake that's harmless?

Posted: 6/29/2023 6:47:38 PM EDT

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There are NO 4’ garter snakes

Posted: 6/29/2023 6:55:27 PM EDT

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Sure about that?

Posted: 6/29/2023 6:59:17 PM EDT

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That’s where yer Wrong bucko. Gotta pic OP?
Look anything like this?

Posted: 6/29/2023 7:01:53 PM EDT

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Look anything like this?
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My spidey senses are telling me something different.

Posted: 6/29/2023 7:08:14 PM EDT

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That’s where yer Wrong bucko. Gotta pic OP?
Look anything like this?
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There are NO 4’ garter snakes

That’s where yer Wrong bucko. Gotta pic OP?
Look anything like this?
https://wallpapercave.com/wp/wp4507910.jpg

WTF do you think you posted a picture of?

Posted: 6/29/2023 7:19:36 PM EDT

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Your water heater and hvac handler isn't in your garage but it's in a external building? I guess that's better than the attic.

You Texans do some weird shit with the hvac and plumbing.

Posted: 6/29/2023 9:05:27 PM EDT

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Let that serpent be. Better mouser than a cat.

Posted: 6/29/2023 9:41:16 PM EDT

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Your water heater and hvac handler isn't in your garage but it's in a external building? I guess that's better than the attic.

You Texans do some weird shit with the hvac and plumbing.

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The room is a part of the home except that it opens to the outside.

Posted: 6/29/2023 9:42:47 PM EDT

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That’s a fuckin viper, man

Posted: 6/29/2023 9:46:08 PM EDT

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Why? Snakes are beneficial. He's not going to hurt anything where he's hanging out.

If you must, put on some leather gloves and try to catch him by hand. If you fail and he gets pissed off and leaves, you've accomplished the mission anyways.

Posted: 6/29/2023 9:47:21 PM EDT

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Sounds highly poisonous.

The obvious solution is to invoke the Danny Trejo rule: a razor sharp machete can kill a lotta bad shit.

You can thank me later.

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Posted: 6/30/2023 12:16:36 AM EDT

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Maybe a rough green snake? I don't think they get quite that long, but can't think of anything else that fits your description. They're tree snakes, so it will be a climber.

Posted: 6/30/2023 6:23:00 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/30/2023 7:50:17 PM EDT

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Maybe a rough green snake? I don't think they get quite that long, but can't think of anything else that fits your description. They're tree snakes, so it will be a climber.

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There are Green Rat Snakes in the SW US.

Not sure how common or what the range is.

Posted: 6/30/2023 8:13:44 PM EDT

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There are Green Rat Snakes in the SW US.

Not sure how common or what the range is.

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They are fairly common in a few of the Sky Island mt ranges of Se Az when conditions are right.

Posted: 6/30/2023 8:19:17 PM EDT

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It's harmless.

Since you are uncomfortable with it, have your wife walk up to it, pick it up, and take it farther away to the woods. Or ask one of the more brave 12 year old girls in your neighborhood to pick it up and take it.

Posted: 6/30/2023 8:19:34 PM EDT

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Or you could just leave it alone. Why mess with a harmless snake? It will move on

Posted: 6/30/2023 8:24:24 PM EDT

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Why not just pick it ?
I can send my 10 year old daughter to you if you need help . She catches snakes all the time out of the field .

Posted: 6/30/2023 8:29:11 PM EDT

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You got a pet snake with a snake door and you are complaining?

Posted: 6/30/2023 8:33:15 PM EDT

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Put a small box in there with a decent hole in it and throw a hand warmer in there and check it a few times.

Posted: 6/30/2023 8:33:24 PM EDT

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I don't understand this thread at all.

Just put it in the woods and come straight back and fix the door.
Or put it in a box, fix the door and let it out of the box.

What in this is missing?
And what's wrong with the snake being around? Do you have pets that will hurt it?

Posted: 6/30/2023 8:47:21 PM EDT

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Catch it with your hands.

Get shit on.

Release it.

Profit.

Posted: 6/30/2023 9:17:35 PM EDT

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+1 on Rough Green snake. My Texas snakes book says they can get up to 3 ft long.

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Posted: 6/30/2023 9:30:36 PM EDT

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Another case of, "Oh yeah baby, it's a full 10" at least!"

Posted: 6/30/2023 9:34:41 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/30/2023 9:39:59 PM EDT

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Not too many wild bamboo pit vipers in Texas. Plus them's ain't 4 foot long.

Posted: 6/30/2023 9:45:21 PM EDT

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Leave the snake alone, it's probably keeping the roach population down.

Posted: 6/30/2023 9:47:43 PM EDT

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We only see the smooth green snake around here and they don't get nearly as big.

But I'd leave it, unless someone has a phobia or something. He's there because there's prey and anything he eats, you probably don't want in your utility room.