Thankful to be alive

So last night (saturday night/sunday morning) I experienced the most terrifying event of my entire life, bar-none. I'm still pretty messed up from it, and probably will be for a very long time. (This isn't a paranormal story or anything involving creepy ass people or anything like that)

Before I continue I should explain a little bit of background detail. I live in SoCal. Pretty common area for snakes. I live on a big property with nothing but rocks and dirt in my backyard. I always sleep with my door open. (Back door - leading straight from the backyard to my room.) I have several animals, and one of them, (Female Jack Russel Terrier) always sleeps at the foot of my bed.

So I fell asleep around 11ish I would say, not too late, only to wake up at exactly 8:26 am (i have a digital clock right next to my bed) to the most vicious sounding rattle I've ever heard. Mixed in with this is the growling of my jack russel, and they're just getting louder and louder and louder. I knew instantly that a snake had worked its way into my room.

Before I could move I felt this awkward weight on my body, right on my lower back (I had fallen asleep on my stomach, keep in mind.) This wasn't the weight of my dog, no, this was the weight of a rattlesnake. A fucking rattlesnake had come into my room, and slithered on top of me while i was asleep.. A rattlesnake that was pissed off because it was being terrorized by a dog, and because it was inside this room. And then there's my dog, who's going absolutely nuts, and then there's me. Who's trying to figure out how to get this snake off of me without getting bit, and getting my dog out of my room without getting bit as well.

I could tell the snake was getting more and more poised to strike at my dog, and of course my dog wasn't backing down. I couldn't use my arms to shoo my dog away, (like that would've worked) because the snake likely would have stricken me. I was tempted to use my legs but I didn't want to upset the snake and have him move closer to my face. I had attempted to call my dog to me and away from the snake, but pretty much to no avail. I ended up jabbing her with a cd rack holder thing to push her off the bed. That was only temporary as she kept attempting to jump back up, as any dog would.

Luckily I sleep with my cell phone within arms reach all the time, and I was able to snatch it up and call my neighbor to come help me. He ran over right away and came in through my back door and was able to snatch my blanket up over the snake completely (kind of like a bag) and throw it outside. The snake slithered away and I thanked the shit out of my neighbor for basically saving my life, and ended up smoking him out, and offering him to come over and smoke whenever.

How my dog didn't get struck by this snake is literally beyond me. It was a good 15-20 seconds of just growling and rattling back and forth before I could push her off. And I don't know how the snake didn't turn on me. I'm just thankful that it didn't! I don't think I'll ever sleep with the door open again. Not without a sturdy as fuck screen door.

Pretty crazy fucking night last night!! Thought I'd share it with some fellow blades now that I'm just laying in bed terrified to fall asleep again hahaha

TL;DR: woke up first thing in the morning with a rattlesnake on top of me, facing off with my dog. Called my neighbor who ended up saving the day.

 

Haha now that I think about it it is kind of funny, but at the time I was basically ready to cry hahahaha. Yeah he basically is my new favorite person hahahaha

Glad you liked it bro! Yeah man I'm stoked I got that thing off of me, my fear of snakes has increased like mad hahaha everything resembles snakes now the funny thing is I've only talked to my neighbor like 3 times prior, but he was at my door within a minute. He's a good neighbor to have! Hahaha

Hell yeah man, definitely a unique story lmfao

Thanks blade!

I wondered the same thing. My bed isn't on a frame, it's just a box spring mattress with a mattress on top. Maybe 16 inches off the ground. Plus I have a pile of laundry right next to the end of my bed so I think it just made its way up the clothes or something. Crazy shit! It was mostly just fear I think, and I knew that if I made one wrong move I was fucked. As soon as it was off of me though I jumped up and had to run around for a second and shake it out ya know haha I couldn't sit still anymore.

No kidding! Of all the snakes that could've crawled on me I think I got the most patient one ;p definitely got super lucky though!!

My sister had a 6 ft snake when I was younger and we both lived at home, and we would take this snake out and let it chill with us and stuff so I am pretty used to snakes and being around them. But it was still pretty nerve racking no doubt hahaha

Haha I live in a pretty remote area so I don't worry too much about other people trying to get in to my house. Plus it's my back door that was open, my front door is nice and locked

I honestly never thought it would happen either!

Damn bro that's intense! Rattlesnakes are just unnerving period. But damn that girl almost got what was coming to her sounds like!! She got lucky!!

I do have a screen door, it just has holes in it because my dogs scratch on it to let me know they want to go out, so it doesn't do much justice :/

 

Haha I thought it was worthwhile to share with the community!

First thing I did after I calmed down was ordered new screen for the slider, definitely replacing it ASAP and making sure my dogs don't tear it up again.