Snake deterrent- help!

[jack707]

When I live in Michigan I had a outside boiler it had a back door so I would keep screws, nails inside so one I need some screws open the door came face to face with a black racer! I shut the door

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I've heard lime works also, never tried it.

 

[roadhunter]

This is easy. Cats eat the mice so snakes have nothing to eat.

 

[jack707]

Get a mongoose

 

[teejk]

Get a mongoose

Then try to control the mongoose population...(check out Australia and "cane toads" to see what happens when you try to fix a problem with non-native species).

 

[jack707]

Then try to control the mongoose population...(check out Australia and "cane toads" to see what happens when you try to fix a problem with non-native species).

When the job done shoot the mongoose!

 

[dieselcrawler]

The one indoor cat we have left will be encouraged to spend more time in the basement.

 

[Pettrix]

Nature is nature and will take care of itself. When humans intervene, bad things happen. One thing you can do is REMOVE the rats/mice from the area. That gets rid of their food source and they go looking elsewhere.

I just encountered a diamondback today. It rattled at me and took a viper striking position. I retreated and it slithered away.

Snakes don't see humans as food but they don't want us to get near them and I respect that. I don't want to get near them either.

Lime doesn't work. It's a wives tale.

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

Then try to control the mongoose population...(check out Australia and "cane toads" to see what happens when you try to fix a problem with non-native species).

Get a single mongoose.

 

[Pettrix]

Came across a Green Mojave. Look how well they are camouflaged with the soil.