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While researching, and looking around on the internet for various snake info I found a link to snake repellant.

Humorous just to read.

www.users.tpg.com.au/ribert/

Steven

They seem serious, although I doubt it would work, it's a joke right? Or are there people out there making money when they should be arrested for false advertising??
Michael
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Yeah...that "snakes are everywhere and deadly" tone of paranoia in the add had me expecting the end to read something like, "Buy our product...before a snake infects your child with Comunism!"

Often I receive phone calls from folks who have moved out of the city and into the "wilder" areas of our region. After building or buying their dream homes, their happiness is shattered because THERE ARE SNAKES ON THE PROPERTY. With great gnashing of teeth, they inquire (since I'm "one of those snake people,)" what can we do to get rid of them? Or, is there something I can buy or make to discourage them from coming on my property?

These folks would gladly lay out bucks for a snake repellent in the hopes it would work. What they get from me are the virtues of coexistence with these slithering rodent eradicators, and a sheet of suggestions for making one's yard less snake friendly.

One woman erected her dream of a very large dove aviary/cage in her back yard. What she didn't consider in her design was that, in actuality, she had constructed the equivalent of a rat snake Sonic drive-in.

She had captured five black rats and put them in a trash can before calling me. She was none too pleased when I assured her that there would be more coming to eat her birds. When I went to pick them up "for relocation", they were so gorged on baby birds that I doubt they would've made it back through the wire of the enclosure to escape! They were lucky she is an animal lover. I guess that they don't teach about the food chain in school anymore. . .
regards,
althea

np

If you call many of the trappers around, many of them will put out mothballs or that stuff called snake away. I have a friend and he tried tests with both. He placed a cottonmouth in a large tank and put mothballs under some hides and left other hides moth ball free. The snake actually went to the ones with mothballs and curled up with them. As for snake away, the same friend went on a snake call. Some people had put out snake away and said that it was keeping a snake trapped in the corner of their house. Turns out it was just planning on laying its eggs in the "snake repellant." Though the trials were not exactly scientific, it is enough to assure me that the products are a joke. Best way to keep a house/yard snake free is eliminate hiding spots for snakes and rodents as well as a food source for the rodents. No rodents, no snakes. It is usually that simple. But people have to insist on having bird feeders and then getting irritated when a nice big ole' texas rat comes out to their yard to eat the rats that share the birdseed or the birds themselves. Or they have to insist on leaving a brush pile or tall grass along the perimeter of their yards. These days it is all about trying to take the easy way out...
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"A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika. Nothin' proper about ya propaganda. Fools follow rules when the set commands ya. Said it was blue when ya blood was red. That's how ya got a bullet blasted through ya head"- Rage Against the Machine

lol they are crazy 99.99 dollers never heard of that but i beat you those people that are really scared of snake like the grandmothers buy gallons of lol

I saw that stuff at a local Tractor Supply store, and me and my boyfriend laughed so loud that people started to stare. what a joke!
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A bunch of Oscar cichlids, one giant pleco, huge breeding lot of "fancy" (read: deformed) goldfish, and me an' the boyfriend.

Hell might as well put mountain dew in a bottle and write "snake away" on it. I'd be rich.