Got a snake in the boat

[sls]

Drove 800 stakes Saturday. No sign of snake. I think he did both of us a favor and left the boat. Dang it was hot!

[Kman]

Snakes don't chew on wiring, shred life jackets and carpet for dens, have large litters of babies multiple times per year, or pee near straight ammonia (which can be corrosive). Mice, rats, and squirrels do. I'd far rather have a rodent-repelling nonvenomous snake in my boat than rats, mice or squirrels.

How about trying to find out about the snake, because it could quite possibly do you zero harm and provide an actual benefit. There are plenty of snake identification sites that will help you figure out what you have. If it's nonvenomous (and it probably is), leave it alone. It will find its way out.

(right now Im looking at the camera like Jim Halpert on The Office...just blinking...)

Why not invite the snake to a BBQ and let him meet the family? Maybe once you have counseled him and let him see you are just a nice guy, he wont BITE YOU IN THE FACE as you lean over to tend to your batteries!

[Wind Knot]

(right now Im looking at the camera like Jim Halpert on The Office...just blinking...)

Why not invite the snake to a BBQ and let him meet the family? Maybe once you have counseled him and let him see you are just a nice guy, he wont BITE YOU IN THE FACE as you lean over to tend to your batteries!

I would far rather learn how to identify the handful of harmful snakes than live in fear each day that I'm outside. To be a grown man living in fear of an animal that has literally zero chance of inflicting harm on you is silly and I'm proud to know that I'm smarter than that.

[Kman]

Smart? Really? To let a snake live in your boat...so lets explore this rationale.

Snakes eat...you gonna feed him? What? Rats? That should smell great! Just what I want in my boat, snakes, rats, and snake poo. What if you have people that get in this boat (like the guy that OWNS it) who doesn't like snakes? Not a far stretch, most smart people I know don't. What if his wife gets in and it crawls across her foot. You think shes gonna take the time to look up the snake on her ipad to see if it will hurt her? No, because shes SMARTER than that! Doing that could get her bitten and sick or dead.

You know.... you never see the guy that's "scared of snakes" getting bit on TV....its always the DUMB one trying to teach me something about one that gets bit in the face.

[M R Dux]

Give it up already! He didn't want the snake living in the boat, that's why he asked for opinions as to how to get rid of it.

Not everybody out there is so scared of snakes that they will kill any or all of them on sight. I've caught and moved several large cottonmouths from around my taxidermy studio to get them away from my dogs and out of the vicinity of others who might be scared of them. They have a place in nature just like crappie or crappie fishermen do.

[Wind Knot]

Smart? Really? To let a snake live in your boat...so lets explore this rationale.

Snakes eat...you gonna feed him? What? Rats? That should smell great! Just what I want in my boat, snakes, rats, and snake poo. What if you have people that get in this boat (like the guy that OWNS it) who doesn't like snakes? Not a far stretch, most smart people I know don't. What if his wife gets in and it crawls across her foot. You think shes gonna take the time to look up the snake on her ipad to see if it will hurt her? No, because shes SMARTER than that! Doing that could get her bitten and sick or dead.

You know.... you never see the guy that's "scared of snakes" getting bit on TV....its always the DUMBA@# trying to teach me something about one that gets bit in the face.

Most of what you're arguing falls in the category of a false dilemma (feeding snakes rats in a boat) or a red herring (carrying an ipad to identify a snake). I'll say this one more time- I would far rather be able to identify the three or four snakes that can cause harm than live my life in fear. Especially since I identify myself as an outdoorsman. If I couldn't handle living in a world that may have snakes in it I just wouldn't leave the house. Man, there are only four venomous species in the USA. They're not hard to point out. I have a harder time identifying white and black crappie sometimes!

[Kman]

Ive been a sportsman all my life...never been bit....done pretty good killing every snake I come across. I don't get bit, and what do you know....theres still plenty of snakes. I understand what a king snake is, or a rat snake, and there place in the food chain, im not an idiot. But none of them have a place in my house or my BOAT. To argue otherwise doesn't make you smart, it makes you argumentative.

[Wind Knot]

Ive been a sportsman all my life...never been bit....done pretty good killing every snake I come across. I don't get bit, and what do you know....theres still plenty of snakes. I understand what a king snake is, or a rat snake, and there place in the food chain, im not an idiot. But none of them have a place in my house or my BOAT. To argue otherwise doesn't make you smart, it makes you argumentative.

Haha. You may want to rethink killing kingsnakes if you can identify them. They eat other snakes, even venomous ones and their musk as actually a snake repellant. An enemy of my enemy is my friend or something like that.

[deathb4disco]

....done pretty good killing every snake I come across.

[tommyboyrn]

Only 2 kinds of snakes....Anaconda's and Rattlesnakes. If its not big enough to be anaconda, it HAS to be rattlesnake. Either way KILL IT!!!!!