I've Just Rescued the Wifey... lol

[OttoMan]

So, I am here on Second floor in my house(minutes ago), wife comes from walmart and I can hear the garage door opening. Then, screaming and calling me: "Babe, come here...come here... Help me!!!"

I was like "Damn! May need some high powered gun!"

There he was, a young rat snake, looking for some food at our front door...

 

[Don231s]

Tell the wife to name it. It'll die of old age instead of being murdered.

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

I had a five-foot version of that in my garage a few years ago.
I picked it up and put it in the woods 50 yards away.
But, I chickened out on the way I picked it up-- I pinned its head and grabbed it firmly just behind the jaws. That was probably not necessary, and made the snake upset and got it thrashing more than it needed to. I've picked up 2-foot to 30-inch snakes without controlling their head before, just handling them gently and supporting their bodies, and have rarely gotten bit. Most snakes are pretty chill.

 

[Don231s]

Wally seems fitting.

 

[OttoMan]

Brought him into the back yard, and let him go!!!

 

[OttoMan]

I had a five-foot version of that in my garage a few years ago.
I picked it up and put it in the woods 50 yards away.
But, I chickened out on the way I picked it up-- I pinned its head and grabbed it firmly just behind the jaws. That was probably not necessary, and made the snake upset and got it thrashing more than it needed to. I've picked up 2-foot to 30-inch snakes without controlling their head before, just handling them gently and supporting their bodies, and have rarely gotten bit. Most snakes are pretty chill.

I know exactly what you're saying. Last year we had another here also, a big one, maybe the father of this one. When I lifted it by the tail, it swimmed back to me like wanted to kiss me... hahaha... it surely made me to shout "f**k you".... lol

 

[Plinker66]

My mother stepped on a stretched-out rat snake in a dark cellar a few years ago. My mother thought it was a washer hose. Only one of them lived to tell the tale.

 

[The Old Jaybird]

Had a big one down at our Lawrenceville house, think he lived in our crawl space. NEVER saw a mouse or rat, NEVER in 30+ years.

 

[wozeyjales]

Mighty brave battling them big ole snakes
while you're wearing flop-flips.

 

[GeauxLSU]

Whew, close call. Glad you saved your wife! Well done!
Tell her to bake you some cookies.