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TCS is now our neighbors' hero. 
This morning, TCS was getting his trike ready for a Patriot Guard Riders mission. They were going to do honors at a memorial service for a military service dog on the local military base.
As he was preparing his trike on the driveway, our neighbor from across the street came over to our house. Her husband was at work and she needed help. She had a snake in her downstairs bathroom!
She had taken pictures of the snake with her cell phone and sent them to her husband and friends. They all said it looked like a harmless garden snake, and could wait until her hubby came home later in the day.
However, she didn't like a snake in the house with her and the kids. It was a small one (about one foot long) which meant it could probably sneak around pretty easily.
So, TCS went with her to look at it. He saw it and said, "Umm, this isn't a garden snake--it's a cottonmouth!" (He's seen and killed plenty of them.)
TCS usually dispatches snakes with a chop from a garden hoe but there wasn't room enough in the bathroom (it was just a small powder room). Instead, he used the metal blade of a car ice scraper right behind the head. It immediately coiled up to strike but he got it cut first. He took the body outside.
He then showed the homeowner how she could tell the snakes apart by head shape and skin markings. It did have the diamond pattern but apparently didn't show up clearly in the dark cell phone picture that her husband looked at.
This morning, TCS was getting his trike ready for a Patriot Guard Riders mission. They were going to do honors at a memorial service for a military service dog on the local military base.
As he was preparing his trike on the driveway, our neighbor from across the street came over to our house. Her husband was at work and she needed help. She had a snake in her downstairs bathroom!
She had taken pictures of the snake with her cell phone and sent them to her husband and friends. They all said it looked like a harmless garden snake, and could wait until her hubby came home later in the day.
However, she didn't like a snake in the house with her and the kids. It was a small one (about one foot long) which meant it could probably sneak around pretty easily.
So, TCS went with her to look at it. He saw it and said, "Umm, this isn't a garden snake--it's a cottonmouth!" (He's seen and killed plenty of them.)
TCS usually dispatches snakes with a chop from a garden hoe but there wasn't room enough in the bathroom (it was just a small powder room). Instead, he used the metal blade of a car ice scraper right behind the head. It immediately coiled up to strike but he got it cut first. He took the body outside.
He then showed the homeowner how she could tell the snakes apart by head shape and skin markings. It did have the diamond pattern but apparently didn't show up clearly in the dark cell phone picture that her husband looked at.
; glad that TCS saved the day 
