EWWW!!! OMG, EWWW!! I'll never be the same again!!!

[dustin92]

My mom always used moth balls around the foundation of the house, I think she used a little overkill though. She had seen a snake in the laundry room (off the back of the house, unheated, connected to the basement, more like an enclosed porch) and every year after until we moved (when I was 7 or 8) she bought 3 or 4 boxes and had me help her spread them around the house. She is absolutely horrified of snakes, they don't bother me much if they leave me alone and stay outside. She tells a story about the snake she stoned to death by the back porch, she just started throwing rocks at it until my dad finally got home and there was a pile of rocks from her flower bed piled up on top of a flattened snake.

 

[autowasherfreak]

If they aren't poisonous, they don't really bother me. I used to play with them when I was a kid. I used to go to friends house on the weekends out in the country, and occasionally we would run into a rattler but we knew well enough to leave them alone, which is exactly what we did.

 

[washerman]

I am terrifed of snakes also.....however, in Minnesota we have a natural way of dealing with them. It is called "winter!" Nearly guaranteed to kill anything that is not bundled up or in a warm place.

At any rate, my cat would so enjoy it if a snake came into our little world....."Oh look! A new toy!"

 

[perc-o-prince]

Liquid Fence ingredients:

MINT OIL
SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE
THYME OIL
PUTRESCENT EGG SOLIDS
POTASSIUM SORBATE
WATER
CITRIC ACID

Mint, shampoo, thyme, rotten eggs, vitamin C and a preservative (?) in water.

I like reading what these things have in them. There's a gopher/mole repellent that has something like 0.05% dried blood and garlic oil in it. I'm sure there are lots of old farmers out there that know just what to use... that they already had on hand!

Chuck

 

[northwesty]

I would suggest a little plastic snake in that gin and tonic.