You know, it's perfect time for snake hunting. It's breeding season, and it's not too hot...the snakes are out and about and not just staying under rocks and logs. I haven't gone herping in a real long time...like 15 years. I'm getting the urge...
A friend of mine had a problem with snakes in his hen house, eating the eggs. I told him to get a bunch of golf balls and put them around the hen house. He did, the snakes think its an egg and swallow it whole. Problem solved.
Bad form. You must identify it to see if it is poisonous, so that you may know whether to kill it with triumph or with regret.
After 4 snakebites in my life, 2 of which requiring hospital trips, I kill first, ask questions later. Especially now that I have children of my own. Most of the snakes around my house are copperheads or little black snakes. I put moth crystals around my fenceline every year but it doesn't get them all. The copperheads I kill on sight, the black snakes are usually killed by the dogs before I get to them.
FOUR bites?!?!Man that's some bad luck! I've heard moth crystals (balls) work. There's also something called "Snake Away" that I've heard mixed reviews on. What kind of dogs? Jack Russell?
He's a dachshund-black lab mix that attacks EVERYTHING that enters the yard. Our female is a straight up golden retreiver, and she'll attack any outside animals too, of course she grew up in the country and now she's fenced in.
