Yikes

[Susie Hamilton]

I was cutting some bushes away today outside the fence by my garage, reaching in and pulling out the branches as I cut them when I saw a snake moving aroung the branch. I jumped back. Did I mention I hate snakes. Looked it up on the web and found out it is a non poisonous brown snake. They like living under bricks and lumber which I have a small pile there. So what do I do? Just leave them alone or get an exterminator? Did mention I hate snakes!!!

[Shellie]

Depends on whether you hate rats and mice more. He won't hurt you, but if you let him be he'll sure keep the yard clean of the varmits.

[Susie Hamilton]

I think I will leave him alone, I hate mice as well. I figure as long as I leave him alone, he will leave me alone.

[Ilovebigcats]

Moth balls around the wood will run him off and keep any others away BUT it will stank. I have been in some country stores that reeked of moth balls so snakes don't get in the store. I am not sure if it would keep mice away too.

[one love]

I am terrified of snakes. I once saw in a new construction neighborhood where they had cut down so many trees there were snakes trying to find somewhere to go and one day there were about 6 going out the grass in the road and I wathced one go right through a door in a house that was closed, slid right through weather strip, I was just a kid and terrified. Who knows how long it could have been in that house

[oletimer]

Ilovebigcats Posted:

Moth balls around the wood will run him off and keep any others away BUT it will stank. I have been in some country stores that reeked of moth balls so snakes don't get in the store. I am not sure if it would keep mice away too.

It didn't work with Danny did it.

[rjc]

Moth balls around the wood will run him off and keep any others away BUT it will stank. I have been in some country stores that reeked of moth balls so snakes don't get in the store. I am not sure if it would keep mice away too.

I hate snakes, the only good snake is a dead snake. There are sveral black racers and red rat snakes around my house so off I went to Home Depot. I bought a couple of boxes of Snake Repellant. When I got it home my next door neighbor fell over laughing because all it was a boxes of moth balls with a picture os snakes on them. I paid about 3 times what moth balls cost.

[Mister Ed]

When I was a kid I was walking with my brothers through a field in a cow path with weeds on each side, barefooted, and stepped on what I thought was a big rope. I called to my brothers "hey, look at this pretty rope I'm standing on", and just then the 'rope' started moving out from under my feet! Only other thing I remember is that we got out of there.

[Linda]

I hate snakes too! We have about 5+ acres that are mostly woods around our house. My daughters have a path around the edge of the yard/woods that they use for walking every day. One daughter has already seen a large black snake in the woody part! As long as they stay in the woods, its ok, but we do not want them coming into the yard!!!!!!!!

I was so STUPID a couple of years ago...after watching Steve Irwin, of Australian Zoo, talking about snakes....I saw this looooonnnngggg black snake cross our driveway...feeling really brave, I ran outside to have a close look at it. I got pretty close too, even tossed a small rock or two and it didn't move. I went back into the house to look up the type and realized it might have been a black racer that could have started coming at me at any moment!!!! I will never do that again!