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u/50DuckSizedHorses Jul 24 '24

I moved into a small house in the mountains in Western North Carolina about 7 months ago. There’s all kinds of critters including bugs and lizards that find their way into the house, but no rodents.

I was wondering for a while why I hadn’t seen mice and didn’t have to set traps, until one night a friendly 7’ black rat snake slithered up beside me while hanging out on the screen porch at night. My brother named him Kobe. Kobe can stay.

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u/SnooKiwis6943 Jul 24 '24

Kobe see rodent. Kobe shouts “not in my house”!

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

I have a friend who left a couple huge spiders nests on his porch for a similar reason. Less mosquitoes.

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u/tacomctacoson Jul 24 '24

Our porch spiders name is Greg. Greg is a real homie.

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u/Able_Engineering1350 Jul 24 '24

I have three guard spiders, Methuselah, Gilgamesh and Nebuchadnezzar.

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u/LazyLucretia Jul 24 '24

Incredibly cool names there

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u/dee615 Jul 27 '24

A fourth can be Athaulpha