Your children, your pets and you avoid unwanted contact -- and alarm! -- with snakes of all kinds. Often concealed in stone piles, wood piles, building foundations and more, snakes sometimes slither where people walk and play, and they’re nearly always a surprise to see! A bite from a venomous snake can cause tissue death swelling, bleeding and destruction of blood cells, and nerve damage. 

Snakes enter a building because they're lured in by dark, damp, cool areas or in search of small animals, like rats and mice, for food.

Don’t let snakes scare you! Keep them away from concealed areas, paths, storage sites, carports stone piles, wood piles, foundations of homes, garages, barns, sheds, in gardens, flower beds, landscaping and near pools.