Good luck to all! We have a cute garter snake that lives under the stones out front, I know he is harmless but I jump every time I see him sunning himself. We do have a "neighborhood" cat that takes care of the chipmunks and such, but snakes, I don't know. It's been there for many years at this point.

Well....I finally found a snake catcher and he and his buddy came out. They thoroughly searched the house and couldn't find Snake. I hope they are right and Snake has left. Gracie is nervous and still on watch as am I.

I caught a snake that had ran into our pantry once. I used a broom stick and picked it up and had a deep garbage can I put him down into. Then out to dump out at the back fence where there was lots of trees. I think it got in because I was in the habit of leaving the back screen door hang open so one of our timid little cats could sneak out, but it would take her 30 minutes to get brave enough, then she'd just sniff around a few minutes and run back in at any sound from me.

How can you handle a snake in the house????? Cat or no cat I would move out if a snake can get in but maybe snakes where you are don't compare to the rattle snakes in Texas. One bite from them you are dead meat for sure and will not make it to the hospital alive.

There were snakes in the jungles of Vietnam we called "two steps" because that is how far you got before you died. Some of our troops were killed just that way but you never knew about it in the states.