Snake deterrent- help!

[bcp]

No snake has ever been known to cross a rope woven from the tail hair of a unicorn.

Bruce

 

[Bobby22]

I have found that using Moth balls around the outside of the house kept the snakes away. Used to have all kinds of snakes until I through a whole both of Moth balls out. kind of stinks, but I would rather smell a few moth balls opposed to seeing snakes.

 

[RobertBrown]

That was my sister and her hubby's solution. Sister was deathly afraid of snakes. They bought an old house with crawl space, Several garter snakes found in and around it. Only took a few years until the old house was gone and a double wide in its place.

And then there was this guy in Rexburg Idaho.....

Neal and Denise Ard owned the home before the Sessions' did. In 2006, they invited a news crew to shoot the piles of snakes they found in the house. The video on YouTube showing buckets all over the house spilling over with snakes now has more than 2.5 million hits.

Snake House': Family Home in Idaho Turns Out to Be 'Satan's Lair' of Serpents - ABC News

 

[teejk]

If my grand dad saw you killing a black snake he'd tan your hide. He catch and put black snakes in the barn, corn crib etc. to keep rats at bay. Most snakes are good, it's the just the ornery poisonous ones that are bad for us in this country, like water moccasins and copper heads. Water moccasins are just plain mean while you usually just don't see the copper head before it's too late.

They've got a lot meaner snakes you can worry about in other places like Asia for example. Some are rated in how many steps you take before you die like two and three steppers. Even cobras are mild compared to some of them. Here we've not got much to worry about. At least a rattle snake will let you know and they taste good too. So everyone leave the good snakes alone, they aren't hurting anything and they usually help us out.

Sound advice...but it takes a long time to get used to them around (and sometimes in) the house. Was a time where I would kill on sight, then I morphed to trying to "relocate them" in a shovel (if they bought into the relocation within a reasonable amount of time...sometimes they did, sometimes they refused which dictated what part of the shovel they met)...now I simply scare them and they go away with time. Something in the human brain I guess that for most people would say kill. My elderly MIL bought a house close to here and she has some big pine snakes very close to the house (and they are big...4 footers). The house is in the woods and sat empty for a few years and the mice took residence over time. When she complains about snakes I find and move. When she complains about mice I tell her she should have gotten used to the snakes.

 

[TomSeller]

. So everyone leave the good snakes alone, they aren't hurting anything and they usually help us out.

Yep. I never harm a good snake. Same as bats.

 

[TomSeller]

No snake has ever been known to cross a rope woven from the tail hair of a unicorn.

Bruce

I have a one horn cow, with the hair from its tail work? Or does it have to be from a unicorn?

 

[GLyford]

Put the dogs on flea and tick control and bring them back inside. They make an oral one good for 3 months they say works about as well as the topspot ones.

It's going to be far easier than keeping out the bugs and rodents the snakes are after.

 

[jack707]

Tell him sleep inside barb wire!

 

[dieselcrawler]

No snake has ever been known to cross a rope woven from the tail hair of a unicorn.

Bruce

I'm gonna start searching Amazon.com right now... if I can find it, I'll buy enough to go around the outside of the house. I wonder if they offer a payment plan....?

 

[bcp]

I have a one horn cow, with the hair from its tail work? Or does it have to be from a unicorn?

The cow's hair is still from a genetically 2-horned animal.

All I can think of that might work is tail hair from a monocerus. It would be worth a try.

Bruce

 

[TomSeller]

The cow's hair is still from a genetically 2-horned animal.

All I can think of that might work is tail hair from a monocerus. It would be worth a try.

Bruce

According to Wikipedia a monocerus was comprised from, among other things, a tail of a wild boar. Will the tail hair from a wild boar work?

 

[bcp]

According to Wikipedia a monocerus was comprised from, among other things, a tail of a wild boar. Will the tail hair from a wild boar work?

No, as that is a description of what a monocerus looks like, not what it actually is.

"But the most fell and furious beast of all other, is the Licorne or Monoceros: his bodie resembleth an horse, his head a stagge, his feet an Elephant, his taile a bore; he loweth after an hideous manner; one blacke horn he hath in the mids of his forehead, bearing out two cubits in length: by report, this wild beast cannot possibly be caught alive. "

Bruce

 

[turnkey4099]

And then there was this guy in Rexburg Idaho.....


Snake House': Family Home in Idaho Turns Out to Be 'Satan's Lair' of Serpents - ABC News

My property is on a slope leading into a creek. I dry laid a retainer wall in one corner to build up the garden area to a more level area. Garter snakes loved that wall and all the crevasses. One sping I found a basket ball size ball of them 'getting it on'.

 

[rekees4300]

If my grand dad saw you killing a black snake he'd tan your hide.

I hear ya. I don't bother snakes as long as they stay outside. The basement is MY turf so any/all trespassers are terminated ... end of story

 

[rox]

Based on experience, I recommend not telling your wife the next time you find a snake in the house.

Ha-Ha-Ha, that was funny.

 

[PILOON]

Bit off topic, but here in Montreal there is a mild panic as somebodies pet python escaped and they can't capture it.
Latest is that it is a small, only 3 ft, and harmless species.
LOL, probable good news is that there will be less mice in the area.

 

[Tompet]

Put the dogs on flea and tick control and bring them back inside. They make an oral one good for 3 months they say works about as well as the topspot ones.

It's going to be far easier than keeping out the bugs and rodents the snakes are after.

Best advice for the dogs is take care of their flea problem and your snake problem...

 

[dickfoster]

Bit off topic, but here in Montreal there is a mild panic as somebodies pet python escaped and they can't capture it.
Latest is that it is a small, only 3 ft, and harmless species.
LOL, probable good news is that there will be less mice in the area.

I doubt the poor thing will last even one of your cold winters.

 

[Old Guy in Tenn]

My recently-passed uncle in Huntsville TN had a copperhead living under the steps leading up to house from carport. We stopped in for a visit and he mentioned we should watch for it as we went in and out of the house. He explained that it kept the carport free of mice and other undesirables, so he let it stay. Wife asked what happens if the snake forgets the agreement and becomes unfriendly. "That's what the hoe is for", he said, pointing to the hoe leaned against the wall by the door.

She suggested I patch the hole in the steps, and he asked "where then would the snake live?".

Different strokes for different folks.

 

[dickfoster]

My recently-passed uncle in Huntsville TN had a copperhead living under the steps leading up to house from carport. We stopped in for a visit and he mentioned we should watch for it as we went in and out of the house. He explained that it kept the carport free of mice and other undesirables, so he let it stay. Wife asked what happens if the snake forgets the agreement and becomes unfriendly. "That's what the hoe is for", he said, pointing to the hoe leaned against the wall by the door.

She suggested I patch the hole in the steps, and he asked "where then would the snake live?".

Different strokes for different folks.

Don't know if I'd tolerate a copperhead hanging around. I draw the line at anything with poison and fangs. I've been known to kill and eat rattle snakes though. Yeah, the best I can remember it does taste a lot like chicken.