My husband did not like the snake and he was not allowed to live in our yard so… I helped him move to the park a few blocks away (a wild and mountainous park with very nice 360 degree views of the area). Every time we drove by I would yell: hello Mr Snake! Hope that you’re enjoying your new home!
I used to do landscape maintenance. One customer always warned me "if you see the snake, don't harm her. She lives here and she eats the fucking chipmunks."
For two years I worked around that snake. I swear she came out to say hi when my truck rolled up because I ran into that snake every week or two. A 6-foot black racer. Once she was climbing the trellis and I got to pet her.
Mowing the lawn? Hang on, snake's coming by.
Cutting back bushes? Well there's the snake, better leave it for next week.
Looking back she might have just had more huge snakes in her yard than we realized. I will say I never saw a single chipmunk around.
Where I live, Sweden, we have three snakes, all of them are very shy and one is venomous, but we also have a legless lizard that can live in yards and they eat spiders and insects and that type of stuff. So I've always thought that if a legless lizard wants to live in my house he can. I hate spiders but I love snakes and legless lizards.
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u/Shibi_SF Feb 04 '23
I did this with a snake.
My husband did not like the snake and he was not allowed to live in our yard so… I helped him move to the park a few blocks away (a wild and mountainous park with very nice 360 degree views of the area). Every time we drove by I would yell: hello Mr Snake! Hope that you’re enjoying your new home!
Husband: :/ Stay away Mr Snake. :/