My mother-in-law and I were making the bed in their travel trailer and when we were done I noticed a little head sticking up over the curtain. Sure enough it was a snake. I calmly asked her to move and she did not know why, so I just told her to move. Then I remembered that Steve said not to handle snakes unless you are trained, but I wanted to get the snake out before my father-in-law killed it. So, I grabed a large stick and put the stick in front of the snake and "WHAK!" the snake struck the stick. Thank goodness it was not my hand or arm. I finally got the snake out. YaWhoo! Yippy! DualPeppy