Snakes just LOVE our grill!
 

Once again, my husband found a corn snake in the grill. Now we need to start checking before we stick our hand down there!

I always open the door to the tank and raise the lid real slowly of my grill just to make sure a snake isn't in there. :22yikes::22yikes:

Good plan. We also have about 5 ft black snake out back in the bushes.

Will the corn snake actually taste like corn if you grill it up?

Chicken silly! Everything exotic is said to taste like chicken!

Holy Crap!!!


Nice pic.

Don't agree woodchuck taste like raccoon

If it eats rodents you might want to keep it.

A long time ago a restaurant called Lily Langtry's Restaurant in Southern N.J. served Rattlesnake. It was nothing but glorified chicken. Only more expensive.

We don't have to be afraid of snakes. When was the last time someone reported being bitten? We just have to be aware of our surroundings at all time cause you never know. This post by the OP is a public service announcement and reminder to sharpen up and watch out. SSSSSSSSSS.

I'm always concerned about the area around the cases of water from the Hurricane Supplies.

All of you are really funny! I’d have to be starving before I tried to eat one!

Those boys!!!

Boys never grow up. Years ago a bunch of the forum boys had us all worked up by saying that snakes come up in the toilet. I STILL think about THAT.

It has a gamey taste I believe. Cooking with Delicious Rattlesnake Meat

My friends and I used to hunt rattlesnake. I was the guy in the back of the line with a shotgun and clumsy feet as I had a tendency to bump into rocks. This was around Rattlesnake Mountain in Reno, Nevada which did have a lot of those around. They had got some before I was at the end of their line. Some of these boys had rattlesnake skins up on their walls of their bedrooms rather than Playboy centerfolds and/or posters of bands.

This is the one we found in the grill on 12/16.

Flipped over a trashcan lid used as a birdbath and found a pygmy rattler.

If it has a white throat it is a black racer and you are lucky to have it, they eat EVERYTHING nasty that can be found in your soil, when there is nothing left they move on.

Didn’t get that close to it, but thanks for the info!

Daaaaammmmm. Is that poisonous

Did a little research, they are not poisonous. They can be confused as a copperhead.

Rollie

Corn/Red Rat Snakes are good to have around. They live on Mice/small rats etc.. Black racers the same. They can bite if provoked. But if they have a chance to escape away from you they will take that route most of the time.

They're the good snake, don't kill. They like the smell of gas, like spiders.

That is why I went to a charcoal grill. All holes covered. No way for anything to get in or out. Always liked charcoal better anyway.

Ohiobuckeye
 

Sounds like a Indigo snake, non poisonous. Snake has nasty bite.

Well, now I know I can be certain my Ex will never move to TV! He hates snakes & will do anything to avoid them. Those photos are a great deterrent, thanks! :)

Have your cats & dogs interacted with the snakes? My dog (a terrier) eats everything, including every bug she finds. I worry that she would try to eat a snake. A cat might think it’s a fun toy, too.

Ohiobuckeye
 

Good way to have your morning coffee without drinking any, or to go to the bathroom & not really having to go, LOL. Corn snakes are NON poisonous but best not to get near because they look so much like a Corral snake, VERY poisonous!

and then

Got to fly my pedant flag here.

There are no poisonous snakes. Not in the US. Not in the world. Poisonous means if you eat, touch, or smell a substance that it can harm you. You can touch or eat any snake, if you so choose. A tiny exception is the keelback snake in SE Asia. It eats poisonous toads then secretes that toxin in its own glands. Poisons are defensive. Touch me and you'll die or eat me and you'll die. So leave me alone. Monarch butterflies are poisonous.

Venoms are offensive weapons used by animals to kill or harm. Venoms are usually injected by fangs or stingers. Wasps and spiders are venomous as well. Copperheads are venomous snakes but not poisonous snakes.

I now remove my schoolmarmish hat and bid you adieu.

Whatever kind of snake, I’m not crazy about them. First thing I did was buy a couple of nice long padded tongs just incase. Haven’t seen any snakes of any kind so far.

I do not enjoy snakes at all... so a question back to Bjeanj, do you live near a pond or some woods or something where the snake(s) may have came out of?

No, not at all. Have a few bushes out back but that’s all.

Moth balls. Snakes don’t like moth balls

Grill him up and you will palm rat farm.:ohdear:

Bet there some palms around?

Agree juvenile black racers look just like Pygmy rattle snakes the big eyes gives them away. Seen one on Chatham rec center front entry last fall they it to catch lizards.

Kinda like methhead?

When you’re dog shakes something back and forth what do you think they are trying to kill?

Thats what I was just going to suggest.... put some mothballs in the grill bottom. Snakes do not hang around then.

I believe a heavy line of fertilizer works too, but a little hard to get it to stay in your grill. You can put it around bushes though...

one of these snakes was in the driveway right near my driver car door. it sat there looking @ me with those big eyes, & as much as i hate snakes, this lil' guy was cute, so i didn't freak out. i tried 'shooing' it away but it didnt budge, just coiled itself up & sat there staring @ me. after a bit of conversation, explaining to it why it had to leave, i turned my head & he was on his way. it was aprox a foot long, give or take.

Here’s our black snake!
 

And ... here’s our black snake, basking in the sun under our arbor.