Snake Removal in Klein, Texas

If a snake turns up in a Klein garage, yard or house, move yourself, your kids and your pets away from it and keep an eye on where it goes. Michael Gerbino of Cypress Critters & Pests removes the snake, then looks for what brought it there, which is usually rodents and a gap under a door. Do not try to catch or kill it yourself. Call Michael at 713-775-8799 and tell him the last place you saw it.

Where do snakes turn up around Klein homes?

A snake goes where it can eat and hide. In Klein’s wooded, established neighborhoods there is plenty of both: leaf litter under the trees, shaded beds along the foundation, and rats and mice using the fence lines and garages. Around a Klein house, snakes tend to show up in a handful of places.

• The garage. A cracked door seal lets mice in, and a snake follows them. Stored boxes along the wall give it cover.
• Beds next to the house. Thick mulch and ground cover under the eaves stay damp and hide frogs and lizards.
• Leaf piles and woodpiles. Shaded, undisturbed spots under the trees, often against the back fence.
• The pool pump and filter pad. Warm equipment and water bring frogs, and frogs bring snakes.
• Under a deck or shed. Cool shade, and often a rodent nest too.
• Inside. Through a gap under an exterior door, a loose dryer vent or the A/C line opening.

Which snakes should a Klein homeowner be careful of?

Treat every snake as one you should not touch. Texas Parks and Wildlife says that out of more than 105 kinds of snakes in Texas, only 15 are potentially dangerous to people. It lists the southern copperhead in the eastern one-third of the state and the Texas coral snake in the southeastern half, among others. Up close, and partly hidden, a harmless snake and a venomous one can be hard to tell apart, so Michael does not ask homeowners to make that call. TPWD also asks people not to kill a snake, even a venomous one. Trying to is how most people get bitten. A bite means calling 911 at once, not waiting.

How Michael handles it here

Michael takes the snake out with long tongs and a closed container while the family waits indoors. Then he looks at the reason it came. On a Klein property, that usually means checking the garage door corners, the A/C chase and the space under the deck for rodent signs, and pointing out leaf piles or mulch beds that give cover close to the walls.

Taking one snake away does not stop the next. As long as there are rats in the garage and open gaps under the doors, another snake has the same reason to come in the same way. So Michael closes those gaps and the space under decks and sheds with metal and buried mesh, the same work described on the animal exclusion page. The first few minutes with a snake nearby are covered on the main snake removal page.

Snake in sight right now? Call 713-775-8799 and stay where you can see it from a safe distance.

Nearby

Michael removes snakes in neighboring towns too, written up under snake removal in Cypress and snake removal in Tomball. In Klein, a snake call often goes with rat and mouse control, and the gaps get closed through animal exclusion. See the Klein page for the rest, write through the contact page, or call 713-775-8799.