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There's a snake on my roof

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drinkswineoutofamug · 31/05/2018 12:09

Exactly that. Sat in my garden in Bulgaria, look up and there's a huge snake sat in the shade on my roof 🐍
I've googled it and it's a European rat snake. My OH is running round the house arming himself with kitchen knives and a yard brush. 🙄 Aibu to sit back and let it do its thing or should I burn the house down now and get the next flight back to England?

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SargeantAngua · 31/05/2018 12:42

Burn the house down. Definitely!

LighthouseSouth · 31/05/2018 12:45

I would love this.
Any chance of a pic please?

PleaseDontGoadTheToad · 31/05/2018 12:45

They're not poisonous so I'm sure you'll be fine.

MadisonAvenue · 31/05/2018 12:46

If this happened to me I wouldn't have had time to post about it in my hurry to get to the airport.

SluttyButty · 31/05/2018 12:47

😱😱😱 I'd be hyperventilating and not even bother with packing my clothes or even taking the children if this were my house, I'd be on a flight back to the U.K.

BlueTongueSkink · 31/05/2018 12:50

I'm with Lighthouse on this one. I love snakes

Beaverhausen · 31/05/2018 12:51

It wont harm you if anything it would benefit you by eating all the rats and vermin around your house.

MissionItsPossible · 31/05/2018 12:52

I would wet myself with shock and probably faint. I am in the UK and know the risk is minimal but I'm terrified a snake will come up the toilet while I'm sitting on it.

mrsjoyfulprizeforraffiawork · 31/05/2018 12:52

Leave it alone - it will leave you alone. If you start trying to evict it, it could get stressed and go into your house. I've looked it up and it isn't venomous - it kills by suffocating prey in its mouth. I had Canadian friends (never seen snakes before) stay in my Greek rural house and they saw 2 small snakes go along the edge of the roof. They then tried to frighten them away and one was so scared it went straight into the house, so the husband killed it! I was really cross when I heard. They described it and it turned out to be non-poisonous and endangered. We also have adders, of course, in the garden sometimes but they don't come into the house and just flee away if disturbed. My Australian friends say that if you kill one snake, karma ensures several more will appear in same place. ANYWAY, he'll kill any rats you have - hurrah!

MothertotheLordsofmisrule · 31/05/2018 12:54

Just leave it. It’s not bothering you and has no interest in you unless you decide to dress up as a mouse.

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 31/05/2018 12:56

I misread this as "there's a snake on my foof"

Thought we were in for the mother of all ladygarden grooming threads

/helpful/

InDubiousBattle · 31/05/2018 12:56

Just let it do its thing. I would imagine it's quite difficult to kill a creature with a kitchen knife, what does your dh seriously think he's going to do with it if he gets hold of it?!

halfwitpicker · 31/05/2018 12:57

Oh well if they're not poisonous that's fine.

pigmcpigface · 31/05/2018 12:58

I would be so excited, I would be Facetiming people to show them 'my' snake!

Seriously, they are beautiful creatures, and it's always a privilege to see something unusual so close! I have a badger in my garden at the moment (well, at night) and I'm loving it!

alligatorsmile · 31/05/2018 12:58

Perhaps you could startle it, making it go stiff with shock, and you could then press it into service as a walking stick/washing line pole/cobweb duster?

alligatorsmile · 31/05/2018 12:59

If this WAS about foofs, then the comment, "I have a badger in my garden" takes on a whole new meaning!

Aprilshouldhavebeenmyname · 31/05/2018 13:00

Unless your dh is called Roland he will be fine!! Grin

pigmcpigface · 31/05/2018 13:01

alligator - Grin Someone will be along to talk about a friendly neighbourhood beaver soon, I'm sure.

TopBitchoftheWitches · 31/05/2018 13:04

I read 'there's a snake in my boot'

I have watched too much Toy Story.

justilou1 · 31/05/2018 13:05

Meh.... at least you won't have rats....

HildaZelda · 31/05/2018 13:06

I would be GONE Shock I absolutely hate them. My friend has one and I can't go in his house anymore.
Spiders, mice, rats, cockroaches etc absolutely no problem.
Snakes. Not in this lifetime!!!

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drinkswineoutofamug · 31/05/2018 13:06

If I see sid the snake again I will do my best to get a picture. We are at the foot of the Balkan Mountains in the country side arse end of nowhere the garden is overgrown and we have 6 barns for it to live in. I'm not too fussed, it's my OH that had the OMG moment

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Caaarrrl · 31/05/2018 13:08

Why would you try to get rid of it? It will kill any vermin that might be running around.

Beansprout30 · 31/05/2018 13:10

Your location sounds amazing but I don't think I could share that with a snake Confused eeek!

Singlenotsingle · 31/05/2018 13:12

There are snakes here as well. I was in ddil's back garden last year and there was a snake on the grass (on it, not in it!). It must have been 3ft long. It slithered under the decking and through the fence to the NDN's garden! My dgs (aged 5) reminded me of it a few days ago. Nothing wrong with snakes. We have a corn snake in a Viv in our lounge

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