There is, of course, chemical warfare. My neighbor across the street is
deathly afraid of snakes, to the point she will collapse in a heap on the
ground if she sees one in the yard. She had the pest-control people spray
her yard with some vile substance they claimed would repel snakes. He
claimed it was "organic" whatever the hell that means but the yard reeked
of a sharp garlic odor for about two days. Don't know about the snakes but
it sure kept me away. I didn't have the heart to tell her that a black
snake routinely comes into my garage and has done an excellent job of
ridding the place of mice.
Charlie
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 6:01 PM, <ozlangur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2 Jun 2014, at 4:15 am, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Our German Shepherd doesn't do snakes. She is great against coyotes,
> > possums, squirrels, and racoons but snakes are too sneaky for her. A
> > mongoose is a great idea.
>
> Around here I've seen people use solar powered snake scarers. They look
> like those solar powered driveway/pathway lights, solar cell on top and a
> spike to push into the ground. They're set to vibrate that spike a set
> time, which, through the ground vibrations, purportedly deters the snakes.
> The few people I've spoken to claim they've not seen a snake since
> installing them (around here mainly Brown, Copperhead & Red-Bellied Black)
> - I'm not sure if by that reasoning you could also call them "Unicorn
> scarers". But people do swear by them on a before-and-after basis (Google
> will provide references, probably for and against).
>
> Personally, even the brief and relatively quiet buzz every so often would
> probably annoy the crap out of me (I'm a bit obsessive about sounds and
> relative silence), so we'll wait for next summer to see how prolific they
> are around the house. We don't yet have animals other than dogs, and
> neither of us fear (beyond caution) the snakes.
>
> Now, Tina, fair exchange of ideas, can you tell me how to get rid of the
> mice in our roof? Bloody noisy nighttime buggers. ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Marc
> Snowy Mts, Oz
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