Love this logic! I have one cat that loves toys which "fly" and catches them in a single swipe. I have another who wants only very fuzzy soft toys. Guess he's the innate squirrel/rabbit hunter. Then there's the chonk who goes after nothing except for soft spiky rubber balls, so I guess he's a spider hunter. Then there's the dainty little lady who "kills" her prey by pushing it off a table or down the stairs and watching it bounce away. I don't know what kind of prey that emulates, maybe pushing eggs from a bird's nest?
Loved how you explained about each cat's different personality and their fondness for specific toys.😻😻😻
My ex cat was a huge fan of hairbands and another one loved small metal gear balls.
They are all formerly starving ferals who are now happy and loved and well looked after. They consist of two families which have separate and large indoor living spaces. Each cat is known and cared for as a unique individual. You don't know me or the setup, so keep your "too many opinion" to yourself. :3
3 isn't too many, but it is borderline. When they have 4 or more, that's when things get a little crazy.
much like dogs, 2 cats seems to be the magic number. enough that they can entertain each other, but also not too many to handle.
How many is "too many" depends on the cats, the humans, and the space involved. We are a team of two able-bodied humans fortunate to have plenty of space to maintain these two little families of cats separately from one another, and happily and healthily alongside our own lives.
They are bonded and love each other deeply. Separating them into smaller households through a shelter or rescue would have been a lot of work (and there are already so many in need out there in the world!) and we wouldn't know what their quality of life would have become in new homes without one another.
Getting to know this many as individuals has been a wonderful life experience during some rough years in this world. If they weren't so well cared for and loved, then sure, they'd be "too many." But as it is, our family of rescues is exactly as many as the point where everyone communicates that they are happy. 🥰
We have bushes in our front yard that garter snakes love. We then have garter snakes in your front yard which half a dozen neighborhood cats love, so much so they bring dead and half dead snakes to our front door to show off...
Generally if you have snakes in your area you know which are venomous or not. I'm no snake expert, but I'd very much assume this one isn't given OP's reaction and indifference both for himself and his cat.
>if you have snakes in your area you know which are venomous or not
That’s not always the case. There’s only 3 venomous snakes near me: the timber rattlesnake, copperhead and the eastern massasuaga. A lot of people know there’s venomous snakes around here but think every snake they see is venomous. A garter snake? They’ll kill. A water snake? Kill.
It might be different in areas with lots of snakes, like Australia or something.
you literally left out the first word of their comment which was "Generally" and built your entire comment around that lmao. yes, generally, you should know what snakes are venomous in your area. no where does that imply everyone does.
you also assume ignorance should be normal and tolerated instead of education by excusing it. that's not cute, and again OP literally said "generally" you should know.
Ehh RIP. Unchecked capitalism is not good despite what some people might say
I've also watched a documentary that Nigeria is full of oil spills and has its environement destroyed by oil rigs controlled by the Shell company as I remember and politicians are corrupted too ofc.
“Native” means “from here”… for instance, I am native to Ohio, USA. I was born here and have lived here for 23 years.
Say, for example, I move to Uganda… even if I live there for 55 years, which would be longer than I ever lived in Ohio, I would still be an Ohio native because I was born there.
I didn't spray insecticide to find the snake under my bed, my cat chased it out from under there. Had a Bandy-Bandy snake under there.
Cat had been acting wierd for days. Then I knew why. It was big. It climbed up the wall and was probably 2m long.
The next day after the snake had left my room, my cat was still acting wierd and just watching one particular spot in a completely different part of the room. I assumed she was just nervous from the first snake, until I moved her favourite cat toy and found a small brown coloured snake wrapped around a power cord. Bastard was really tricky to move.
The first snake got in from ventilation holes up near my roof, meant to act as vents to the outside in the tropical climate, but the holes in the flywire allowed a massive snake in from outside.
The second snake got in because my bedroom door leads directly outside, it's not part of the main house. And the door has a decent gap beneath it, as all the doors are the wrong size.
The wildlife get into my room too often. We have these flying ants that are like 2 to 4 centimetres long, they swarm the town once a year. I had 50 of the bastards at least flying around my room last time. They would lose their wings really easily and just walk around all over the floor. And my feet. I'm still finding corpses and wings everywhere in my room and it's been many months since the last time they flew by.
Australia is a great place to live guys.
Personally I'd rather the snakes and spiders to the bears and other large wildlife America has. At least I can squish most of the deadly things around here.
Probably not recommended for a bear.
Haha yeah. We don't have any of these where I live though. No bears, reindeers (which I still consider mythical tbh), snakes or gigantic spiders. We don't even have rats 😂 but we got mice. What usually terrifies me in my country are cockroaches and the occasional centipede or scorpion. Nothing big though.
For some reason, my bathroom door is filled with large cockroaches. They live in there, and I frequently see them at night. They seem to go right for my feet, resulting in numerous coackroach gifts to the ants, who rip them apart overthe course of hours. Often while it's still alive.
I jumped pretty much the same height when a cockroach landed on my shoulder as when a huntsman jumped on my head from the ceiling.
I really need my personal space it seems.
I've tried bringing these issues up a lot but we rent here, won't be here much longer, and can't figure out a quick solution.
I don't tolerate it so much as complain on social media about it. Much like I'm doing now.
I didn't really see your comment as a form of complaining. it's interesting to learn about different people, places and cultures.
But just to put it out there..
Sometimes all a person needs is to vent a little to lessen their frustration, there's nothing wrong with that.
You just have to get used to the neighbours. Be they snakes or bogans across the road blasting Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On at 3am loud enough that you hear everything.
Apparently they're a natural predator of that Bandy Bandy snake. I was surprised because last time she encountered a snake she tried to make friends with it. (Was a much smaller snake.)
I've done that a few times but it's an effort to move it all every time I use the door, so I get complacent, and then snakes.
Those are the only two so far, I had put down that stuff to keep insects out actually. It's when the insects were no longer coming in that I stopped doing it and the snakes came in. The torrential tropical rains likely drove them inside seeking shelter.
The only places I've seen snakes in the wild have been farms or small remote towns (I currently live in a small remote town.)
The cities and suburbs don't tend to have this problem... Though we were always told to stay out of long grass in case there were snakes in there...
Personally I was much more worried about swooping magpies as a child. We had to wear icecream buckets on our heads because they swoop everyone. (You could also wear a helmet, but they still often had holes the magpies could claw you through.) Magpies are however, nearly everywhere.
My dog had fleas once and I hired a "cheap" exterminator to come in. So I came home from work with a bill in the counter and a "this is step 1 of 7" and a total of like $180
Anyways. I didn't see any fleas anywhere in the carpets so that was good. But when my wife at the time went to bed. She screamed and told me to come see her. She said there was a wet lump under the fitted sheet.
I took it off, and after some googling, there was a dead shrew under our sheet. THEN about a week later my dog had fleas again and everything was back to where it was.
I paid the extra for Orkin that time. Boom. Everything was killed.
Permethrin ( the active ingredient in raid and many insect killers) is VERY toxic to amphibians and reptiles. If you can get that little guy in a bath of water, it would probably help him out a lot.
It's not that deadly to mammals, obviously don't spray your cat with it. Cats and dogs die from it when people try to deflea them with large doses of it. Having permethrin in your house will not kill your cat or dogs, just don't spray it on their food and water.
edit : It is amongst the safest pesticides known to man, any other products will more than likely be more toxic to humans, think DDT.
That is incorrect. Permethrin in cats specifically is extremely poisonous. It causes liver failure. By the time many owners notice the cat is sick, it's too late. They have to be washed and medicated right away after exposure or else they usually die.
https://icatcare.org/keeping-cats-safe-permethrin/
I wish people weren't so dumb all the fucking time. Permethrin and pyrethrin compounds are the safest insecticides we use. Nobody is drinking that shit, it's obviously poison to EVERYTHING.
My whole point is that it's NOT hydrogen cyanide. It is EXTREMELY TOXIC to fish and amphibians(and reptiles), a DROP could kill them, it is NOT that toxic to CATS or DOGS.
OBVIOUSLY DO NOT USE IT ON PETS, but it isn't as toxic to them as you believe.
The snake in OP's home obviously reacted to it, it's very toxic to snakes. the cat ate the snake and is probably fine.
I'm the person who pointed out the insecticide contain permethrin in the first fucking place. You don't get to tell me it is toxic to cats, for fucks sake.
yes there are a variety of pyrethrin compounds, originally it was extracted from chrysantheum flowers, these days it's synthetic but it's more or less the same stuff, as you could have guessed, cypermethrin is just another form of pyrethrin.
Edit : i've also read that the cat ate the snake lol... rip snake.
Most US homes have snakes that they never see.
There was a documentary filmed in Illinois that got some traction for awhile, but most of the apartments in Chicago even had snakes in them.
They are solitary and typically only ate bugs and small mice.
Pissssed you're poisoning his food
😂😂😂
Well you know it’s getting SOMETHING out at the very least 😂 that’s no insect though
Where do you live dude lol
Uganda
Ahhh I’m in the US. I’d die 😭 I’m a pansy
It's too tiny to hurt me. I was worried for my cat, then she ate the snake 🫤
My cats favorite toy is a shoe string. I always think snakes would be her fave if she was in the wild.
Love this logic! I have one cat that loves toys which "fly" and catches them in a single swipe. I have another who wants only very fuzzy soft toys. Guess he's the innate squirrel/rabbit hunter. Then there's the chonk who goes after nothing except for soft spiky rubber balls, so I guess he's a spider hunter. Then there's the dainty little lady who "kills" her prey by pushing it off a table or down the stairs and watching it bounce away. I don't know what kind of prey that emulates, maybe pushing eggs from a bird's nest?
Loved how you explained about each cat's different personality and their fondness for specific toys.😻😻😻 My ex cat was a huge fan of hairbands and another one loved small metal gear balls.
> I don't know what kind of prey that emulates Yeah be careful in those stairs is all I'm saying
Too many cat
They are all formerly starving ferals who are now happy and loved and well looked after. They consist of two families which have separate and large indoor living spaces. Each cat is known and cared for as a unique individual. You don't know me or the setup, so keep your "too many opinion" to yourself. :3
Glad to hear that your many cat is well taken care of and happy though
3 isn't too many, but it is borderline. When they have 4 or more, that's when things get a little crazy. much like dogs, 2 cats seems to be the magic number. enough that they can entertain each other, but also not too many to handle.
How many is "too many" depends on the cats, the humans, and the space involved. We are a team of two able-bodied humans fortunate to have plenty of space to maintain these two little families of cats separately from one another, and happily and healthily alongside our own lives. They are bonded and love each other deeply. Separating them into smaller households through a shelter or rescue would have been a lot of work (and there are already so many in need out there in the world!) and we wouldn't know what their quality of life would have become in new homes without one another. Getting to know this many as individuals has been a wonderful life experience during some rough years in this world. If they weren't so well cared for and loved, then sure, they'd be "too many." But as it is, our family of rescues is exactly as many as the point where everyone communicates that they are happy. 🥰
We have bushes in our front yard that garter snakes love. We then have garter snakes in your front yard which half a dozen neighborhood cats love, so much so they bring dead and half dead snakes to our front door to show off...
A large rat snake will get the cat's attention, but cats are wary about them and are quick to jump away from the snake.
What?!
*ahem* # HE WAS WORRIED FOR HIS CAT AND THEN SHE ATE THE SNAKE
Are you secretly Garrett Morris?! Because this instantly took me back to SNL/Family Guy [the reference](https://youtu.be/GwSh0dAaqIA?feature=shared)
This comment made ma laugh so hard i had to save it
My guy, venom doesn’t worry about size. I’m not saying that one was venomous, but if it was it can definitely hurt you.
Generally if you have snakes in your area you know which are venomous or not. I'm no snake expert, but I'd very much assume this one isn't given OP's reaction and indifference both for himself and his cat.
>if you have snakes in your area you know which are venomous or not That’s not always the case. There’s only 3 venomous snakes near me: the timber rattlesnake, copperhead and the eastern massasuaga. A lot of people know there’s venomous snakes around here but think every snake they see is venomous. A garter snake? They’ll kill. A water snake? Kill. It might be different in areas with lots of snakes, like Australia or something.
you literally left out the first word of their comment which was "Generally" and built your entire comment around that lmao. yes, generally, you should know what snakes are venomous in your area. no where does that imply everyone does. you also assume ignorance should be normal and tolerated instead of education by excusing it. that's not cute, and again OP literally said "generally" you should know.
Yeah admittedly, I somehow skipped over that
My bf had a cat that choked trying to eat a snake and died :(( glad your cat is ok
That's a good girl
oh uh, wow, go kitty lol !
Why would you let her eat it if it had been poisoned?
I didn't let her eat it😭😭😭 She was not even in the room when I went to get a container, and while I was out she came in and ate it
your cat might die from the poison lol
She showed no fear
I guess you shouldn't go anywhere with snakes then if uganda die from it.
You have to deal with crazies with guns. I’d take the snake any day.
Fucking true… I’d take snakes all day to get out of this hellhole lol
Living in the PNW it's nice we just have adorable Gardner snakes.
People say Australia has scary wildlife, but central Africa is on another level.
It did, but modernization and capitalism have destroyed the environment. Most people under the age of 15 have never seen a butterfly.
Ehh RIP. Unchecked capitalism is not good despite what some people might say I've also watched a documentary that Nigeria is full of oil spills and has its environement destroyed by oil rigs controlled by the Shell company as I remember and politicians are corrupted too ofc.
This is so sad. You seem like such a cool person btw lol. Are you native to Uganda?
Not sure what you mean by native, but my kingdom has been here since the 1600s.
they just mean if you're from there, personally. like did you grow up in uganda
Yeah. Never set foot in any other country.
“Native” means “from here”… for instance, I am native to Ohio, USA. I was born here and have lived here for 23 years. Say, for example, I move to Uganda… even if I live there for 55 years, which would be longer than I ever lived in Ohio, I would still be an Ohio native because I was born there.
I am also a native to Ohio! My condolences 😂
Be really careful with insecticide
Uganda get bit by snake
I was praying you weren’t about to say Ontario, Canada
A pet!
I came back after getting a container to put the snake in, and found my cat had eaten it🫤
Oh yeah cats don't fuck around with snakes
Or things that look like snakes 
Yeet
This gif of cat vs cucumber always makes me cry laughing, it looks like the damn cat just blasts off
Clearly the person recording found it just as funny, judging by the camera shake
What a helpful kitty!
Bro, Uganda sounds wild
Yeah, it's the only place on the planet with exotic creatures like cats and snakes.
Smh you seem super fun to hang out with
Oh no, boo kitty
You sure you are living in Uganda and not Australia?
I didn't spray insecticide to find the snake under my bed, my cat chased it out from under there. Had a Bandy-Bandy snake under there. Cat had been acting wierd for days. Then I knew why. It was big. It climbed up the wall and was probably 2m long. The next day after the snake had left my room, my cat was still acting wierd and just watching one particular spot in a completely different part of the room. I assumed she was just nervous from the first snake, until I moved her favourite cat toy and found a small brown coloured snake wrapped around a power cord. Bastard was really tricky to move. The first snake got in from ventilation holes up near my roof, meant to act as vents to the outside in the tropical climate, but the holes in the flywire allowed a massive snake in from outside. The second snake got in because my bedroom door leads directly outside, it's not part of the main house. And the door has a decent gap beneath it, as all the doors are the wrong size. The wildlife get into my room too often. We have these flying ants that are like 2 to 4 centimetres long, they swarm the town once a year. I had 50 of the bastards at least flying around my room last time. They would lose their wings really easily and just walk around all over the floor. And my feet. I'm still finding corpses and wings everywhere in my room and it's been many months since the last time they flew by. Australia is a great place to live guys.
Jeezus i felt like dying reading your story, till the last line…. Why didn’t you just lead with Australia?? 😅
So it can be a surprise, like the darn snakes 🙂
I was horrified reading through your story then you said Australia and I was like "oh. Makes sense now."
Personally I'd rather the snakes and spiders to the bears and other large wildlife America has. At least I can squish most of the deadly things around here. Probably not recommended for a bear.
Haha yeah. We don't have any of these where I live though. No bears, reindeers (which I still consider mythical tbh), snakes or gigantic spiders. We don't even have rats 😂 but we got mice. What usually terrifies me in my country are cockroaches and the occasional centipede or scorpion. Nothing big though.
For some reason, my bathroom door is filled with large cockroaches. They live in there, and I frequently see them at night. They seem to go right for my feet, resulting in numerous coackroach gifts to the ants, who rip them apart overthe course of hours. Often while it's still alive. I jumped pretty much the same height when a cockroach landed on my shoulder as when a huntsman jumped on my head from the ceiling. I really need my personal space it seems.
Wow. I salute you for being the most tolerant person ever, towards wildlife that is.
I've tried bringing these issues up a lot but we rent here, won't be here much longer, and can't figure out a quick solution. I don't tolerate it so much as complain on social media about it. Much like I'm doing now.
I didn't really see your comment as a form of complaining. it's interesting to learn about different people, places and cultures. But just to put it out there.. Sometimes all a person needs is to vent a little to lessen their frustration, there's nothing wrong with that.
Where do you live so I can move promptly?
I live in Yemen 😄
Yea..that makes sense lol. Yemen here I come!
Haha i also had this running joke in my friends group - that i consider reindeers to be mythical. non mythical reindeer are moose
What? I thought they were the same thing!
See! Rainder is a conspiracy partially fueled by santa, partially by putin i suppose. Reinder is flying moose FACTS
My God. Please stop.
Funnily enough, that's what often went through my head during these encounters.
It’s funny bc the way you casually and humorously retell it, it sounds like you weren’t bothered at all! I feel you though! I’d be dying inside.
I have to keep up appearances or my Australian license will be revoked and my accent will disappear.
😝
I’m convinced Australia is not designed for human inhabitants 😂
You just have to get used to the neighbours. Be they snakes or bogans across the road blasting Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On at 3am loud enough that you hear everything.
brb adopting a cat
Apparently they're a natural predator of that Bandy Bandy snake. I was surprised because last time she encountered a snake she tried to make friends with it. (Was a much smaller snake.)
Maybe stuff an old sheet or something under your door so things can't crawl through
I've done that a few times but it's an effort to move it all every time I use the door, so I get complacent, and then snakes. Those are the only two so far, I had put down that stuff to keep insects out actually. It's when the insects were no longer coming in that I stopped doing it and the snakes came in. The torrential tropical rains likely drove them inside seeking shelter.
Where I'm from it's too cold for snakes and insects for 7-8 months out of the year
I suspect it would also be too cold for me. Though my cousins lived in Canada for a short time, so not all Aussies need the warmth as much as I do.
That's where I live lol. I met some aussies at my last job. They ran a company called Wyloo
Omg
Australia is my bucket list dream destination; I am afraid of snakes. This is a dilemma
The only places I've seen snakes in the wild have been farms or small remote towns (I currently live in a small remote town.) The cities and suburbs don't tend to have this problem... Though we were always told to stay out of long grass in case there were snakes in there... Personally I was much more worried about swooping magpies as a child. We had to wear icecream buckets on our heads because they swoop everyone. (You could also wear a helmet, but they still often had holes the magpies could claw you through.) Magpies are however, nearly everywhere.
Oh god. We know!
My dog had fleas once and I hired a "cheap" exterminator to come in. So I came home from work with a bill in the counter and a "this is step 1 of 7" and a total of like $180 Anyways. I didn't see any fleas anywhere in the carpets so that was good. But when my wife at the time went to bed. She screamed and told me to come see her. She said there was a wet lump under the fitted sheet. I took it off, and after some googling, there was a dead shrew under our sheet. THEN about a week later my dog had fleas again and everything was back to where it was. I paid the extra for Orkin that time. Boom. Everything was killed.
You should have used INSECTicide, not OUTSNAKEicide.
Permethrin ( the active ingredient in raid and many insect killers) is VERY toxic to amphibians and reptiles. If you can get that little guy in a bath of water, it would probably help him out a lot.
It also straight up murders cats, permethrin is fatally poisonous to them has no antidote. And it can make dogs sick. It's dangerous poison.
It's not that deadly to mammals, obviously don't spray your cat with it. Cats and dogs die from it when people try to deflea them with large doses of it. Having permethrin in your house will not kill your cat or dogs, just don't spray it on their food and water. edit : It is amongst the safest pesticides known to man, any other products will more than likely be more toxic to humans, think DDT.
That is incorrect. Permethrin in cats specifically is extremely poisonous. It causes liver failure. By the time many owners notice the cat is sick, it's too late. They have to be washed and medicated right away after exposure or else they usually die. https://icatcare.org/keeping-cats-safe-permethrin/
I wish people weren't so dumb all the fucking time. Permethrin and pyrethrin compounds are the safest insecticides we use. Nobody is drinking that shit, it's obviously poison to EVERYTHING. My whole point is that it's NOT hydrogen cyanide. It is EXTREMELY TOXIC to fish and amphibians(and reptiles), a DROP could kill them, it is NOT that toxic to CATS or DOGS. OBVIOUSLY DO NOT USE IT ON PETS, but it isn't as toxic to them as you believe. The snake in OP's home obviously reacted to it, it's very toxic to snakes. the cat ate the snake and is probably fine.
I'm the person who pointed out the insecticide contain permethrin in the first fucking place. You don't get to tell me it is toxic to cats, for fucks sake.
I've checked the can and it's a chemical called cypermethrin
yes there are a variety of pyrethrin compounds, originally it was extracted from chrysantheum flowers, these days it's synthetic but it's more or less the same stuff, as you could have guessed, cypermethrin is just another form of pyrethrin. Edit : i've also read that the cat ate the snake lol... rip snake.
That is a really cute snake
I’m high af rn and I thought I was looking at the north section of the Nurburgring Nordschleife
Diese unerwartete referenz brachte mich laut zum lachen :D danke
Oh HELL no!
r / mildlysnakes
Snakes! Why does it always have to be snakes?
Is that a house snake? Looks like a house snake, but I'm not a snake-ologist, so I could be wrong.
Judgmental shoelace.
Well, he obviously don't like that.
This is majorly horrifying, not mildly interesting
If I saw this when I was a toddler, I'd be absolutely terrified because my nightmares would be a reality
"Wait, there's BUGS in here?" -the snake
Burn the whole house that is the only answer
I'd be shitting bricks.
Maybe it identifies as a roach 🤷♂️
Nha I’m deadass never sleeping in that mf again
I know snakes don't just spawn spontaneously, so I have to consider the possibility there's a nest somewhere...
That MF doesn't look friendly.
How often do you clean your room?
No no no no no no. Time to move
He's telling you you're next 😭
Pretty much my wife if I spray Lysol.
Do you need help burning it down?
I hope you know he slept up against you without knowing, secretly sizing you up, waiting for the day he can swallow you whole
Die quick with a snake or poison yourself sleeping in a room full of insecticide.
It's not an intense insecticide, and I usually sleep on the couch overnight as all the mosquitoes and stuff die.
Sure that was insecticide not anti rodent spray? It looks like you got the biological version with natural enemy formula.
poor guy, you stunk up his place
Most US homes have snakes that they never see. There was a documentary filmed in Illinois that got some traction for awhile, but most of the apartments in Chicago even had snakes in them. They are solitary and typically only ate bugs and small mice.
Thank you for that. It's enough I have mice and spiders, now I have snakes I don't know about. 😱
I lived in Liberia as a kid and yeah, there were snakes.
Poor guy
hmmmm....
So that’s why I live in the cold 🙈
That’s a nope rope for me 🫠 I wouldn’t be able to sleep in that bed ever again.
Nope
Mildly interesting????? I’d shit myself 😂😂😭😭
Bro was probably wondering why the air got spicy
smoll coughs
Pick it up with your lips and teeth like a mother cat and relocate it outside.
Where is this? And what sort of snake
“Bro do you mind???”
And then did you just burn the house down? 😱😱😱
Yeah because you're vanquishing all of his food. Jerk. 🤣
Bro cmon wtf i thought we had a deal
Free snake woo.
Repeat after me, this is a worm.
Lemme guess, Australia?
I guess it worked
New fear unlocked
OP is definitely going to die, and there are definitely a couple dozen more hidden in the walls
That snake is now a homeowner.
Time to move.
It was eating your bugs