On Jun 10, 8:47 pm, "ReelMcKoi" wrote:
"Jim Elbrecht" wrote in message

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"ReelMcKoi" wrote:

"~ jan" wrote in message
. ..
This was a new one for me. I do remember talking about it though in o
ld

RP.
One of my hubby's ex co-workers collects coffee cans, drills holes in
t
he
plastic caps and then put moth balls in the cans. She then set the ca
ns
on
the outskirts of her property. Apparently this works. I've never hear
d
of
it before. ~ jan

Why would that stop them if it's out in the open?
The fumes would blow away. The "outskirts" of her
property no less. I don't believe it. ;-)

I'm a skeptic, too. But I spent a lot of time a week or two ago
reading about different products and there are lots of believers in
this one;
http://www.pestproducts.com/snakeaway1.htm

That sounds like typical hokum to me. A sales pitch. Notice the
Universities names are not mentioned. And *WHO* are the naturalists,
conservationists and ecologists? Don't waste your money. Snakes didn't
survive for millions of years because they're easily put off or stupid. I

live
with a large number of them and have watched them slither right over line
s
of naphtha flakes, mothballs themselves and lines of stinky sulfur. If
t
hey
smell a mothball or some flakes they skirt them and keep right on
going. They don't turn around and go back the way they came.



It uses naphthalene [mothballs] and sulphur and claims that it masks
other odors so snakes avoid the area because they can't smell their
dinner or danger.

Bullpippy. :-)



The review that kept me from trying it was the guy who said it worked
great to keep snakes from around his pool---- but his kids wouldn't
go out there for 2 weeks after he applied it because the smell was too
strong.

A guy told me she sprayed coyote urine around his pond and it kept snakes

away......



So I guess I'll go with trap and relocate if my garter snakes get too
plentiful.

That's the best way - if you can trap them. :-)

--
RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö

I tired coyote urine for racoons - and the only thing it kept away was
me!!!! Geez what a smell. (not to mention $$$)