Posted on 03/01/2017 12:37:36 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Mother-of-two says she's been forced out of her home by a SNAKE infestation - but is stranded because landlords won't return her deposit
A mother-of-two was forced out of her home by a snake infestation but is left stranded because her landlord won't return her deposit.
Tonya Bell packed up her family from the house she was renting after finding a host of snakes inside the walls and throughout the home, earlier this month in Kansas City, Missouri.
In less than a week, Bell claims she found eight snakes and said her two children didn't want to go inside the house and preferred to sleep in her truck.
Bell said she is now stranded and left unable to move because the landlord won't return $500 of her deposit.
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It looks and sounds like this is a case of a dirty house attracting the rodents (and probably cockroaches?), and the rodents attracting the snakes. Nothing makes a home in a barren wasteland where there is no hope of finding food.
The person who lived in before claimed it had snakes, an ongoing problem it seems. Somehow the place got infected and it’s just hard to get them all out.
“The mother said it all began with a mice problem after she signed a two-year lease last June.
She added to the news outlet: ‘The mice were really bad, jumping in and out of the trash cans. Eating on my bread. Everything.’
The snakes are there to eradicate pestilence, as God intended.
Maybe she’d prefer Lepto, plague or Hantavirus.
Spectacular cruelty, glue traps.
I agree don’t use those things. I have cats to take care of mice.
People who use them don’t want to be “involved” with the deaths.
They think putting it where they cannot see it and having something take up to 4 days to die in agony is “better”.
If you must kill, make it quick and merciful.
That is not too much to ask.
Agreed a mouse trap is quicker. A cat is fed.
Indeed.
But always give a good tapeworm tab, every so often.
Don’t want the cat getting sick.
:)
Anyway, seeing snakes and then not knowing where they went can play interesting mind games on someone. I once ran from my bed years back in a suboptimal state of undress when I felt what felt absolutely like a sizeable snake wrapping itself around my ankle for warmth. Turned out to be nothing, but again - where I am from there are snakes you don't want to be bitten by. Some will kill you quick (e.g. mambas, most types of cobra and the boomslang have fast acting neurotoxic venom), while others will kill you slower but make you wish you were dead (venom from the likes of a puff adder or certain types of spitting cobra are hemotoxic/cytotoxic, and will really damage your body around the area of the bite even if you survive).
There are people who have removed all furniture from a house and cleared it after seeing a black mamba ...which was found curled around several clothes hangars in the jacket cabinet (and mambas can get really long). While this lady might be dealing with only garter snakes, I can certainly understand her predicament.
Poor woman. She’s mistaken a Democrat gathering for something entirely different.
The tapeworms come from the fleas on the mouse, not the actual mouse. Darn fleas.
What's her husband think about all this?
LOL
You tear me up.
;D
Good grief!
Where do you live?!?
Darn parasites, all of ‘em.
You could tell that people seriously into these things were showing up to see them. I guess they are high-shelf critters. The spider was hiding, my wife seen it before and said it was large and hairy with impressive colors. Also a thing called tiger salamander drew photographers but it was hiding too in the damp soil.
I got good pictures of a googly eyed thing: 
This guy was large (it has a long tail), about the length of my leg. 
Okay, sounds like you are in some places I tend to go. We are currently in Sierra Leone and have had a couple of nice snake stories dealing with Black Cobras and Green Mambas.
Thanks in advance for the nightmares I am going to have!
Was hiking a few months ago and saw a bamboo snake slithering in a ditch. Good thing I live on the 14th floor.
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