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For most people, finding a snake in your house is not something you want to see. While it's not extremely common, it does happen.

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Snakes are coming out of hiding for the summer, and people across the country have found them in some weird places, like their cars and air vents. For most people, finding a snake in your house is not something you want to see.

While it's not extremely common, it does happen.

"I average about three a week," said Patrick O'Briant with Critter Wranglers, LLC. He said snakes aren't trying to bother you. In fact, they want to stay away from you. But if they're looking to cool down, the shade of your house can be a good option. "They can get through pretty much anything that is general ease of access," said O'Briant. "Everyone knows snakes don't have hands. If they can push it, they'll push it to get into a place." O'Briant said there are a few popular ways that snakes can get into your house:

Getting in through the crawl space

Crawling up through gutters

Going through any open door, screen or doggy door

Chasing a rodent into the dryer line

O'Briant has been called to remove snakes from cars, floor vents, crawl spaces, dryers and other hiding spots inside a house. When a snake gets inside, he said people want to know all the places it could have hidden. "Where is the snake, where could it be, where could it be hiding," said O'Briant. "Essentially the answer is anywhere that the snake can fit its body is where it can be." He said they'll usually go to warm places low to the ground, so you're not likely to find one in your bed or bathtub.

If you do find a snake somewhere you'd rather not have one....

"Don't scream, don't agitate it, assume that it's trying to get out of the house as much as you want it out of the house," said O'Briant. He said the most common snakes people see are black or gray rat snakes. They're not venomous, but there are just a couple kinds of snakes in East Tennessee that are.

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The black mamba, for example, injects up to 12 times the lethal dose for humans in each bite and may bite as many as 12 times in a single attack. This mamba has the fastest-acting venom of any snake, but humans are much larger than its usual prey so it still takes 20 minutes for you to die.

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Snakes don’t have claws or powerful jaws to pin down their prey. If the venom doesn’t kill quickly enough, the victim may escape into a burrow or up a tree and die out of reach of the snake – or, worse, injure the snake in its death throes. Snakes are in an evolutionary arms race with their prey, which are evolving ever-greater resistance to snake venom. Snakes have adapted to this by evolving venoms that contain a cocktail of several hundred different enzymes and proteins. Some block nerve transmission, others interfere with the beating rhythm of the heart, some break down muscle tissue or cause blood vessels to suddenly become leaky. Snakes can control how much venom they inject with a single bite and generally use far more than the lethal dose. The black mamba, for example, injects up to 12 times the lethal dose for humans in each bite and may bite as many as 12 times in a single attack. This mamba has the fastest-acting venom of any snake, but humans are much larger than its usual prey so it still takes 20 minutes for you to die. Subscribe to BBC Focus magazine for fascinating new Q&As every month and follow @sciencefocusQA on Twitter for your daily dose of fun science facts.

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