Keeping snakes away
I'm all for balance in nature and preserve the animals and bugs and serpents and all that crap but I just have too many snakes in my yard. I have removed by hand ( they're garden snakes) 10 this month alone. They are an annoyance to my children and visitors and I would like to rid my yard of them. I tried that "snake away" product and it's totally useless ( Yes I followed the directions closely). Any other suggestions to rid my yard of these snakes?. Also, I won't be responding to any posts by those condemning me for wanting my yard snake-free so don't bother, save your condemnation for someone else. Sorry, thought I had to mention that after reading some of these threads. Thanks in advance for any useful advice. |
Keeping snakes away
I meant "Garter snakes". |
Keeping snakes away
plat4 wrote:
I'm all for balance in nature and preserve the animals and bugs and serpents and all that crap but I just have too many snakes in my yard. I have removed by hand ( they're garden snakes) 10 this month alone. They are an annoyance to my children and visitors and I would like to rid my yard of them. I tried that "snake away" product and it's totally useless ( Yes I followed the directions closely). Any other suggestions to rid my yard of these snakes?. Also, I won't be responding to any posts by those condemning me for wanting my yard snake-free so don't bother, save your condemnation for someone else. Sorry, thought I had to mention that after reading some of these threads. Thanks in advance for any useful advice. Erm... 'garden' or 'garter' snakes don't occur here in Oz. I would be *happy* to swap you snakes, though! I have a Red Bellied Black snake in my garden (a very handsome fellow, about five feet long) and I live in fear that he might bite my dog and kill her. Are your garden/garter snakes deadly? The only thing I've done that works is to use the garden hose on 'jet'. That will move one snake one time. It's not a solution. I'd be glad to hear of others, though... -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
Keeping snakes away
"Trish Brown" wrote in message ... plat4 wrote: Erm... 'garden' or 'garter' snakes don't occur here in Oz. I would be *happy* to swap you snakes, though! I have a Red Bellied Black snake in my garden (a very handsome fellow, about five feet long) and I live in fear that he might bite my dog and kill her. Are your garden/garter snakes deadly? The only thing I've done that works is to use the garden hose on 'jet'. That will move one snake one time. It's not a solution. I'd be glad to hear of others, though... -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia I am no herpetologist but have you looked at why this snake sticks around? Do you have a particularly good environment for snakes? Do you supply their needs for food, water or shelter? We have them here down by the river, apparently they like creeks, ponds and canals. I can't change the river (who would want to) so I tell people to take care walking by it and to give the snake a chance to run (slither?) away. Do you have a water source that is attracting it? See here http://www.wildlife-australia.com/red.htm for some info. David |
Keeping snakes away
"Trish Brown" wrote in message ... plat4 wrote: Erm... 'garden' or 'garter' snakes don't occur here in Oz. I would be *happy* to swap you snakes, though! I have a Red Bellied Black snake in my garden (a very handsome fellow, about five feet long) and I live in fear that he might bite my dog and kill her. Are your garden/garter snakes deadly? The only thing I've done that works is to use the garden hose on 'jet'. That will move one snake one time. It's not a solution. I'd be glad to hear of others, though... -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia I am no herpetologist but have you looked at why this snake sticks around? Do you have a particularly good environment for snakes? Do you supply their needs for food, water or shelter? We have them here down by the river, apparently they like creeks, ponds and canals. I can't change the river (who would want to) so I tell people to take care walking by it and to give the snake a chance to run (slither?) away. Do you have a water source that is attracting it? See here http://www.wildlife-australia.com/red.htm for some info. David |
Keeping snakes away
"Trish Brown" wrote in message ... plat4 wrote: Erm... 'garden' or 'garter' snakes don't occur here in Oz. I would be *happy* to swap you snakes, though! I have a Red Bellied Black snake in my garden (a very handsome fellow, about five feet long) and I live in fear that he might bite my dog and kill her. Are your garden/garter snakes deadly? The only thing I've done that works is to use the garden hose on 'jet'. That will move one snake one time. It's not a solution. I'd be glad to hear of others, though... -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia I am no herpetologist but have you looked at why this snake sticks around? Do you have a particularly good environment for snakes? Do you supply their needs for food, water or shelter? We have them here down by the river, apparently they like creeks, ponds and canals. I can't change the river (who would want to) so I tell people to take care walking by it and to give the snake a chance to run (slither?) away. Do you have a water source that is attracting it? See here http://www.wildlife-australia.com/red.htm for some info. David |
Keeping snakes away
"Trish Brown" wrote in message ... plat4 wrote: Erm... 'garden' or 'garter' snakes don't occur here in Oz. I would be *happy* to swap you snakes, though! I have a Red Bellied Black snake in my garden (a very handsome fellow, about five feet long) and I live in fear that he might bite my dog and kill her. Are your garden/garter snakes deadly? The only thing I've done that works is to use the garden hose on 'jet'. That will move one snake one time. It's not a solution. I'd be glad to hear of others, though... -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia I am no herpetologist but have you looked at why this snake sticks around? Do you have a particularly good environment for snakes? Do you supply their needs for food, water or shelter? We have them here down by the river, apparently they like creeks, ponds and canals. I can't change the river (who would want to) so I tell people to take care walking by it and to give the snake a chance to run (slither?) away. Do you have a water source that is attracting it? See here http://www.wildlife-australia.com/red.htm for some info. David |
Keeping snakes away
"Trish Brown" wrote in message ... Erm... 'garden' or 'garter' snakes don't occur here in Oz. I would be *happy* to swap you snakes, though! I have a Red Bellied Black snake in my garden (a very handsome fellow, about five feet long) and I live in fear that he might bite my dog and kill her. Are your garden/garter snakes deadly? The only thing I've done that works is to use the garden hose on 'jet'. That will move one snake one time. It's not a solution. I'd be glad to hear of others, though... -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia Also http://www.zoo.org.au/education/Imagedir/snakes.pdf David |
Keeping snakes away
For land snakes, pour a line of salt around your boundary and outside your
doorways. It must be at least 10mm high. Snakes don't like salt, you never see any on the beaches so that should prove this theory. Make sure the salt is fine and not rock salt, the snakes can be injured by the rock salt. Jock "plat4" wrote in message ... I'm all for balance in nature and preserve the animals and bugs and serpents and all that crap but I just have too many snakes in my yard. I have removed by hand ( they're garden snakes) 10 this month alone. They are an annoyance to my children and visitors and I would like to rid my yard of them. I tried that "snake away" product and it's totally useless ( Yes I followed the directions closely). Any other suggestions to rid my yard of these snakes?. Also, I won't be responding to any posts by those condemning me for wanting my yard snake-free so don't bother, save your condemnation for someone else. Sorry, thought I had to mention that after reading some of these threads. Thanks in advance for any useful advice. |
Keeping snakes away
g'day plat4,
although you've asked the question in an aussie group, in general snakes will only hang around if you create the right habitat, that is you have attracted their food source to your garden and your garden itself makes it a welcome place to be for them eg.,. plenty of undergrowth and leaves to hide in as well as maybe a water feature a lot of snakes are attracted to water. and the water feature probably attracts frogs and native toads (this is all very good for conservation of species and the amphibians also help control bugs in the garden) but they are food for a lot of snakes. include rodents in the above selection as well. you may get some ideas out of all that, if not you may just have to learn to live with the issue. len snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://home.dnet.aunz.com/gardnlen/ |
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Yes I know it's an aussie group. I figured who would know about snakes more than you guys. If I am not mistaken sometimes Australia is called the " reptile continent" with not that many species of mammals. Thanks for the advice btw. Manos |
Keeping snakes away
Yes I know it's an aussie group. I figured who would know about snakes more than you guys. If I am not mistaken sometimes Australia is called the " reptile continent" with not that many species of mammals. Thanks for the advice btw. Manos |
Keeping snakes away
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:20:03 GMT, "Jock"
wrote: For land snakes, pour a line of salt around your boundary and outside your doorways. It must be at least 10mm high. Snakes don't like salt, you never see any on the beaches so that should prove this theory. Make sure the salt is fine and not rock salt, the snakes can be injured by the rock salt. Jock I think that might be an old wive's tale. As a child I used to catch snakes on Central and North Coast beaches. Mostly carpet snakes (pythons) but they certainly spent a lot of time sunning themselves around beach areas. Currently I have found snakes in my sal****er pool on several occasions. Tony |
Keeping snakes away
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:20:03 GMT, "Jock"
wrote: For land snakes, pour a line of salt around your boundary and outside your doorways. It must be at least 10mm high. Snakes don't like salt, you never see any on the beaches so that should prove this theory. Make sure the salt is fine and not rock salt, the snakes can be injured by the rock salt. Jock I think that might be an old wive's tale. As a child I used to catch snakes on Central and North Coast beaches. Mostly carpet snakes (pythons) but they certainly spent a lot of time sunning themselves around beach areas. Currently I have found snakes in my sal****er pool on several occasions. Tony |
Keeping snakes away
"Anthony (Tony) Cameron" wrote in message news:5irsmvkvf0ibs0vq5skg98pdk7uem3kuu6@primus... On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:20:03 GMT, "Jock" wrote: For land snakes, pour a line of salt around your boundary and outside your doorways. It must be at least 10mm high. Snakes don't like salt, you never see any on the beaches so that should prove this theory. Make sure the salt is fine and not rock salt, the snakes can be injured by the rock salt. Jock I think that might be an old wive's tale. As a child I used to catch snakes on Central and North Coast beaches. Mostly carpet snakes (pythons) but they certainly spent a lot of time sunning themselves around beach areas. Currently I have found snakes in my sal****er pool on several occasions. Tony These snakes were desparate, they were trying to top themselves. Believe the salt thing, it works. Jock |
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"Jock" wrote: For land snakes, pour a line of salt around your boundary and outside your doorways. It must be at least 10mm high. Snakes don't like salt, you never see any on the beaches so that should prove this theory. Sorry, but I've actually seen a small red-bellied black sunning itself on Bundeena beach at 11am! There were lots of people around, but nobody seemed interested in spreading their towels anywhere near him... -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "...children should continue to be breastfed... for up to two years of age or beyond." -- Innocenti Declaration, Florence, 1 August 1990 |
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Anthony (Tony) Cameron writes:
I think that might be an old wive's tale. As a child I used to catch snakes on Central and North Coast beaches. At a beach once I noticed a black snake dozing on the sand right where I was going to sit! My guess is that it found the habitat well provisioned-- rats attracted by the food discarded by people using the beach by day. Currently I have found snakes in my sal****er pool on several occasions. I once had spiteful neighbours, too! I moved. ;-) -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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Keeping snakes away
Anthony (Tony) Cameron writes:
I think that might be an old wive's tale. As a child I used to catch snakes on Central and North Coast beaches. At a beach once I noticed a black snake dozing on the sand right where I was going to sit! My guess is that it found the habitat well provisioned-- rats attracted by the food discarded by people using the beach by day. Currently I have found snakes in my sal****er pool on several occasions. I once had spiteful neighbours, too! I moved. ;-) -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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Keeping snakes away
Anthony (Tony) Cameron writes:
I think that might be an old wive's tale. As a child I used to catch snakes on Central and North Coast beaches. At a beach once I noticed a black snake dozing on the sand right where I was going to sit! My guess is that it found the habitat well provisioned-- rats attracted by the food discarded by people using the beach by day. Currently I have found snakes in my sal****er pool on several occasions. I once had spiteful neighbours, too! I moved. ;-) -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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