Snake repellant

[champion110]

Okay, last weekend I found a Water Moccasin (baby one) living in fig vine that is on the brick on the back of my house. Today, killed a 7' long chicken snake. They are clearing a lot of land around my 3 acres for new subdivisions and I am getting a lot of wildlife on my property - snakes, skunks, possums, even hearing coyotes at night now. So, what is a good snake reppelant that won't hurt my dog? My backyard is enclosed from the rest of my land, so I could put something out around the perimeter of the fence that my dog can't get to.

[AustinDawg]

The old timers used to say that a snake won't crawl over grass rope. Maybe you could line your fence with it.

[Dirtydawg]

What about a mongoose? I seem to remember a story when I was a kid about a mongoose killing a couple of cobras.

[champion110]

Okay, I have grass rope and a Mongoose. LOL Of course, my dog might not like the Mongoose. LOL

I have read that Geese and Guinea's will kill them too. Of course, those wouldn't be too welcome in my neighborhood. I just worry that if I had a Water Moccasin on by my back door on my wall, there are probably more.

[Dirtydawg]

Okay, I have grass rope and a Mongoose. LOL Of course, my dog might not like the Mongoose. LOL

I have read that Geese and Guinea's will kill them too. Of course, those wouldn't be too welcome in my neighborhood. I just worry that if I had a Water Moccasin on by my back door on my wall, there are probably more.

Pretty valid concern especially considering the snake was a baby.

[Guisslapp]

http://www.drtsnatureproducts.com/store/snake-repellent

[DONW]

We had a cat once that caught snakes and would come lay them in front of our door. When I lived in Pine Bluff I got him as a kitten thinking he would run the gophers out of the yard. The gophers would get under the house at night and it would sound like somebody was trying to break in the house when they would start scratching on the foundation. We didn't have much luck with poison peanuts and their favorite food was the roots of the tomato plants we had planted in the flower bed. By the time that cat was 4 months old I would see him sitting by a gopher mound. He was very patient because I would see him sit there for hours sometimes just waiting for that gopher to comeup for enough for him to grab him. Every one he caught he would come lay him in front of the door. After about 3-4 weeks my gophers were gone. Over the years he brought in several snakes.
When we lived in Pineville there was a small creek that ran behind my house that had water moccasins and there was a big one that ran out of my yard one day. While walking in the woods behind my house one day I ran across a king snake that was about 3 feet long. I just reached down and picked him up and brought him home with me and put him in a very thick patch of fern in the yard. Never saw another snake in my yard except for that king snake and he stayed there for quite some time.

[champion110]

The Brambles would kill them, I am sure........ After all, they have a wild bloodline in them. However, with show cats, I don't let them outside. They do have a screened in cattery room that they can go in and out of and I have never seen a snake get close to there. :icon_wink:

The Peterbalds would run hide under the covers.

[DONW]

The Brambles would kill them, I am sure........ After all, they have a wild bloodline in them. However, with show cats, I don't let them outside. They do have a screened in cattery room that they can go in and out of and I have never seen a snake get close to there. :icon_wink:

The Peterbalds would run hide under the covers.

We've had a Russian Blue and an Abyssinian that we never let outside and we have a big solid black cat that showed up in our garage 8 years ago when he was about 3 months old. He weighs about 18 pounds and he's not really overweight. He loves to go outside, so I set up a portable dogpen on the patio sometimes for him, but, he doesn't get to roam freely.

[RougeDawg]

Snake Away and mothballs work on snakes except for Water Moccasins (something about the olfactory senses being different in water snakes). Cats will kill the baby snakes (and everything else). King Snakes work GREAT if you can keep them in your yard. About the best thing is to keep the grass mowed as low as possible and minimize low growing bushes and ground cover. If they don't have a good place to hide they won't stay in the yard for long.

[latech80]

It's funny someone should mention SnakeAway, because when I told my veternarian about it, he laughed, and said you could accomplish the same thing with mothballs. When we first moved into our house, we would find them in our yard all the time. Now, it's been about 10 years, and we haven't had a single one.

[hookdown]

Works every time!

[champion110]

Snake Away and mothballs work on snakes except for Water Moccasins (something about the olfactory senses being different in water snakes). Cats will kill the baby snakes (and everything else). King Snakes work GREAT if you can keep them in your yard. About the best thing is to keep the grass mowed as low as possible and minimize low growing bushes and ground cover. If they don't have a good place to hide they won't stay in the yard for long.

My yard was designed to be a tropical look - lots of plants, banana trees, fig vine, etc.... all around the pool. I fear that it is a snake paradise too. :icon_wink: I will just have to stay vigilant. I am going to try some of the suggestions above, though. Got rid of the skunk family with ammonia soaked rags thrown under the decks and 15 flea bombs all going off at once. Read it on the Internet and didn't think it would work, but they have moved on. The country was fine until it became the suburbs. All those animals had to find a new home and my land has an old barn in a wooded and pasture land and lots of landscaping in the enclosed area by the house. I think it just comes with the territory.

[arkansasbob]

i heard that snakes won't go anywhere near oleander. every part of an oleander bush is poison for just about every type of animal, so this seems to make sense, but i don't have any proof other than the word of a friend of mine. so you could line the outside of your fence with oleander bushes and it would look nice, tie in with your tropical theme, and maybe keep the snakes out.

eta: you may be too far north for oleander to survive.

[Bigdog13]

I hate water moccasins Champ. I wish you luck with them. They are aggressive and mean.