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Old 09-03-2008, 04:36 PM
 
Location: Katy, TX
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Leave it to my luck to move to Katy and see every pest I hate within the first month! Damn drainage ditch behind my house must be the source...and here I thought have no rear neighbors would be awesome!

So I opened my garage door and startled a little snake, I think maybe a ribbon snake? My guess is it came in after our toads! I tried to chase it out but I think it got stuck in the glue trap my exterminator put out. I'm leaving it to my husband to dispose of when he gets home.

So I've read on this forum before that mothballs help keep snakes away...is this true? I'd just rather not be startled by snakes when I go out to get in my car. Also I heard about Snake-Away. Does it work? Where do you get it?
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Old 09-03-2008, 08:10 PM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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They seem to work on the copperheads. Mothballs in a Coffee can that's has punctures in it. Thick rope sometimes throws them off. They think they are going over another, bigger snake.
In NE Texas I'm planning on using that trick along with the super duper snake boots I got at Bass Pro-shop.

If you have a drainage ditch, you have a lot more to worry about than a ribbon snake.
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Old 09-03-2008, 08:35 PM
 
Location: Lake Conroe, Tx
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If you have a drainage ditch, you have a lot more to worry about than a ribbon snake.[/quote]


LOL, You can say that again.
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Old 09-03-2008, 08:53 PM
 
Location: Katy, TX
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Ok y'all, please do explain what more I have to worry about than a ribbon snake? BTW my neighbors just told me they have never ever seen a snake in our neighborhood. Figures I would.
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Old 09-03-2008, 10:11 PM
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Mothballs are known to keep away snakes, but they are also poisonous to humans and pets. I have seen rats in the neighborhood (saw one run across the entrance to our neighborhood just a couple of weeks ago in broad daylight).

Well, I could say that the snakes are keeping out the rats, but I'd rather not have either in my yard either. So I'd recommend getting a cat before putting out mothballs. Just be prepared to have the cat leave the dead or nearly dead prize at your doorstep. Some cats just love to leave their owner's these special "gifts".

Until then, stamp around your garden a bit before you work in it. You will scare any snakes away before they scare you.
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Old 09-04-2008, 06:33 AM
 
Location: California
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Ok y'all, please do explain what more I have to worry about than a ribbon snake? BTW my neighbors just told me they have never ever seen a snake in our neighborhood. Figures I would.
LOL...welcome to Texas! If you live near water...and I live on Taylor Lake...be prepared...You haven't lived until you see one of these guys in your backyard! Small kids, dogs, cats? Be VERY careful. I don't mean to scare you, but there is a very good possibility that one could be lurking!

I do have a friend who backs up to a drainage ditch and every once in awhile she sees one basking in the sun on the edge and she lives in the center of ClearLake!





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Old 09-04-2008, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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I was thinking more on the line of Cottonmouths/Water Mocassins.
But gators work too.
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Old 09-04-2008, 07:23 AM
 
Location: California
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I was thinking more on the line of Cottonmouths/Water Mocassins.
But gators work too.
Believe it or not...that is the one thing we haven't seen...although, I'm more than sure they are here!
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Old 09-04-2008, 07:28 AM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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BTW my neighbors just told me they have never ever seen a snake in our neighborhood. Figures I would.
I take it they aren't into gardening and/or aren't the outdoorsy type.
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Old 09-04-2008, 07:35 AM
 
Location: Katy, TX
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I dunno, they have very nice landscaping and I've seen them working on it themselves.

Our drainage ditch has very little water in it, and I'm trusting the big fence between my back yard and the ditch will keep at least the gators out.

Cla, one of my neighbors has a pair of very sweet outdoor cats that occasionally visit our porch and taunt my dog. Unfortunately though the association sent them a letter that someone complained about their cats (there's a leash law, of course) so they are upset and don't know what will happen. They won't bring the cats in, and so far they haven't gotten rid of them. Knowing about the rats, I hope the cats stick around.
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