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Reply 20 of 47 (Originally posted on: 06-25-07 06:06:42 PM)
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There is a pretty substantial forest just outside my apartment window. I'm on the last wall of the last building in the run, so my porch and bedroom run off right into the trees. Not too far back is a river, such that I could throw a rock into it, if I didn't have to heave it through the thick mass of branches.
My porch is sealed pretty well, and so is the only other window in the place - the bedroom window.
At first I thought he was somebody's pet, because of the bright colors, and that maybe he had come up through the plumbing (especially since I found him in the dishwasher).
I think maybe not, though, now. He's a little too big to come through the dishwasher supply line (3/8 OD Copper tube, lol).
It's a safe bet that he was just sitting on the porch for a while, and came in on some night that I left the door open. I've had a snake on the porch before, I know they can get onto it through some drain holes near the floor. After nearly four years, this is only the second one I've seen though. If that's how he got in, then it was halfway my fault to begin with.
Furthermore, if he got in that way, then I'm not even worrying myself with it. There aren't very many venomous snakes in florida, and all but one of them (coral) is thickset and tawny brown in the manner of most Diamonbacks, Cottonmouths, Copperheads, and Timber snakes.
(Internet research ++, I didn't know jack about snakes until this guy showed up. Still don't, really)
Those guys probably couldn't get through the hole, except maybe the copperhead, and I would recognize them in an instant even if they did.
Who knows, maybe there will be another "snake in my dishwasher" thread, but I doubt it.
Good suggestion though.
Ok, that's good to know...
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