5:25 am
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July 10, 2003
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We came home from watching Star Trek (good movie by the way) and Ben comes up to me and says "Isn't the bathroom a funny place for a snake?" 😯
Sure enough, I walked in there and found a snake. At first I thought it was one of there rubber ones, until it moved 😯 Kinda freaked me out at first...
As far as I can tell, it's a Sharptail...Here's a picture of it after I put it in a bucket to study it...plus it calmed Elena down a little 
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1:14 pm
January 12, 2007
Offline What size is it?
1:37 pm
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July 10, 2003
Offline Not very big...about 10" long.
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1:47 pm
Welcome to the country. 😀 Any idea how he got in there?
You sure it wasn't one of these?
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1:58 pm
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July 10, 2003
Offline I have no idea how he got in.
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12:12 am
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April 2, 2003
Offline good snake for eating bugs. Did you let him go in your backyard?
1:04 am
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July 10, 2003
Offline Yes, he's back in the yard...owl food 
I kinda wanted to keep him...Elena said "No way in hell."
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4:42 am
February 5, 2003
Offline we had one in our office. We think it came under the front door.
It is a sharptail. They eat slugs and snails. They are good swimmers too. I pulled one out of the pool a couple of years ago.
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2:35 am
Not quite in our bathroom, but I found this in our front yard this afternoon. I'm guessing Yellow-bellied Racer. I tried to relocate it so the cats didn't make him a snack, but he was quite a bit faster than I was.
FYI...This is a great site for identifying CA snakes, frogs, lizards, turtles, salamanders: http://www.californiaherps.com/
2:39 am
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July 10, 2003
Offline Snakes are cool until they rattle at you. Suprising how fast they can be.
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2:43 am
"JohnDF" wrote: Snakes are cool until they rattle at you. Suprising how fast they can be.
Kelly and I were just talking about it. It seemed like the thing just vanished. I think he must have climbed a tree. 😯 The internet says they're good climbers. I was wandering around trying to figure out what happened to him and how he got away so quick and he was probably two branches up laughing at me.
2:44 am
May 4, 2004
Offline "Bender" wrote: Not quite in our bathroom, but I found this in our front yard this afternoon. I'm guessing Yellow-bellied Racer. I tried to relocate it so the cats didn't make him a snack, but he was quite a bit faster than I was.
I'd be a Yellow-bellied-run-the-other-way-er 
2:44 am
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July 10, 2003
Offline That's kinda spooky 😯
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2:50 am
"JohnDF" wrote: That's kinda spooky 😯
Not as spooky as the other animal we saw this weekend. We were up near Lassen Park and driving through a section of road with cut slopes on both sides. I caught something moving out of the corner of my eye and HUGE bear came down the slope, crossed the road right in front of us, and ran up the other side. I had to slow down so I didn't hit it. It was crazy. I don't remember ever seeing one. Did I mention it was HUGE????
5:44 am
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July 10, 2003
Offline Big Foot?
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5:49 am
February 5, 2003
Offline "JohnDF" wrote: Big Foot?
wearing a pink, clear plastic bag?
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6:08 am
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July 10, 2003
Offline That would be Condom Man...not to be confused with Big Foot...one is hairy and the other is BALD
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1:35 pm
"JohnDF" wrote: Big Foot?
Could have been. 😀
It was actually pretty neat. I've never really seen one like that. Impressive animals.
1:51 pm
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July 10, 2003
Offline I chased (with my Jeep) a pretty good sized bear down the Strawberry trail durring one of the Triple Trails. 😯
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3:34 pm
July 15, 2005
Offline I see bears every night in Tahoe, sometimes we have to go into houses and chase them out. They break in and destroy the house looking for food. Last week, I had a 500 pound bear break into a car and the door closed behind him. He was trapped and talk about destroying the car trying to get out 😯 I took my shotgun while one of my deputies stood behind me to shoot it if it attacked me. I took the barrel of my gun and broke the side window to let the bear out. Why didn't I just open the door? The owners keys were inside the car and the bear locked all the doors Once the window was broke out, the bear jumped out, made about a 5 foot charge toward me, I shot if with a couple rubber bullets, and he turned and beat feet 😯 I have close encounters with bears like this weekly!!!
"Bender" wrote: [quote="JohnDF"]That's kinda spooky 😯
Not as spooky as the other animal we saw this weekend. We were up near Lassen Park and driving through a section of road with cut slopes on both sides. I caught something moving out of the corner of my eye and HUGE bear came down the slope, crossed the road right in front of us, and ran up the other side. I had to slow down so I didn't hit it. It was crazy. I don't remember ever seeing one. Did I mention it was HUGE????
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3:53 pm
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July 10, 2003
Offline Bears or perps...at least you get to shoot the bears
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