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You can't have a snake infestation without a mouse infestation. When the mice are gone the snakes will leave.
Not necessarily. These snakes are probably entering the house through cracks in the foundation to brumate (hibernate) through the winter. Garters favor frogs and invertebrates over mice because of their size and their immunity to the secretions of many frogs and toads. Larger garters may occasionally take mice and birds but they're definitely not the primary prey. I wouldn't be surprised if pinkies were fair game, but the average sized garter won't risk the injury from the counter bite of an adult mouse.
That video is of the Narcisse snake den in Manitoba. It's famous among herpetologists as being one of the world's largest (if not the world's largest). These garter snakes aggregate like that because they court and breed using chemical cues, and the male of this particular species of snake can mimic the female's hormones, confusing other males (known as "shemale" mating scents).
You're not going to get anything that even remotely resembles that in one house.
I used Bull snakes (some call them gopher snakes) to take care of both a mouse and gopher issue I had. My son and his buddies were always catching them and bringing them home. I let a couple bigger ones under the house, mice were gone in less than a week. Never saw the snakes again. A couple others I showed convenient gopher holes to and down they went. Gophers evacuated as well, never saw the snakes again. Bull snakes get big. Seen them up to 5 foot. Mice and other rodents just can't abide the smell of a snake.
If the snakes in this case aren't really enough critter to handle full grown mice, there's still a lot of them it seems, so the smell of them alone would keep the vermin out. Snakes get a bad rap. Venomous ones like rattlers I won't abide but racers and bulls I encouraged to hang out on the ranch I used to have. They kept the mice out of the house and barns, kept gophers and moles seeking life elsewhere as well.
In truth, there's nothing more honest than a snake. You always know exactly where you stand with a snake. Yet people call sneaky, devious people "snakes". That just ain't fair to so many good, honest critters. lol, Still, I don't reckon anyone wants them getting in bed with them at night. In this case, I've never seen the like. Snakes just don't generally favor a house in such numbers. Must be a breeding and nesting spot.
Not sure how she got herself in this position. If I were her I would file a civil suit for the deposit money. As soon as it was filed I would contact the TV show Judge Judy. Judge Judy would tare the property owner up and the show would give her her money.
That's the last thing I would do. This lady has enough issues just paying the bills and running her life. She doesn't have time to waste on civil suits, which the landlord would very likely win. What I would do is put a request on gofundme.com and see if some kind hearted people can help.
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I live in the desert. I don't want to share my house with rattlesnakes. We have a "snake resistant" yard with block walls and rubber sweeps / weatherstripping on the bottom of our car and entry gates. It's unlikely a snake would get in but we still watch and light it at night if we are outside.
If I had more gartersnakes around the house, I might not have a swat-team of carpenter ants trying to do an invasion every year or so. And I probably wouldn't have an infestation of countless numbers of those tiny, odorous house ants every winter. I accidentally ate one recently and they taste worse than they smell.
I would love to have a nice snake take up residence under my house. My house has a framework under the house, and the foundation lies on top of it. There are numerous places to get past the foundation and inside too. The dogs bark at the mice, but my cats are excellent mousers. But last summer, we had an even more populace crop.
The cats noticed and they'd be sitting and staring at a spot sure the critter would come close enough. But there was a super bumper crop. My son and his wife were visiting of course. While we went to get dinner and took a long ride for a movie, I left all the drawers and doors in the kitchen open....
We stopped by when we got back and the cats were still in hunting mode. So we went to their motel room and watched another movie. I went home then and found very tired cats, and no, none, not any mice.
Since I know my cats will catch any stupid mice who decide to take the chance, I'd never use poison, but there is indeed a reason why cats started to become popular in crowded places with lots of little mousies to keep them busy. A nice friendly snake to just keep them out in the first place would be an excellent addition. :-)
Ya know.............. I can deal with the occasional monster under my bed, but snakes, nooo thannks.
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Bull snakes get big. Seen them up to 5 foot. Mice and other rodents just can't abide the smell of a snake. 
lol, Still, I don't reckon anyone wants them getting in bed with them at night. In this case, I've never seen the like. Snakes just don't generally favor a house in such numbers. Must be a breeding and nesting spot.
