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Apologies for the second post, but I'm afraid my first post was lost in the other thread ... Anyhow, I have a question about who to call for a snake problem.
One of my friends has a tenant who has reported copperhead snakes in the yard in North Raleigh and has requested that the landlord "take care of it." What's the best way to handle this? Are there companies or products that truly repel snakes? My friend is concerned with the safety of his tenants as well as any potential liability.
They have snake pellets but it just the same as moth balls but more grandular in form .
They both have sulfur and same smell. Moth Balls are cheaper
The best way to lessen the amount of snakes is make it harder for them to hide such as maintaining the yard or anywhere that has alot of weeds.
I am assuming this apartment complex has a retaining pond and most I have seen the grass around them is not maintain and this would need to be changed.
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We have a jasmine right up against the screen on our screened porch, next to the door. In that thick bush is a small bird's nest, where a family of mockingbirds lived this spring.
The other morning, I went to let the dogs out and up against the screen was this small snake, maybe 2' long, with a speckled white underside.
It may have crawled up there to see if there's breakfast in it. For the next 2-3 days we didn't see it, but now I see it IN the nest! It seems to have decided to take up residence, and it is all a bit too close for comfort for me.
Tried to look it up on the net and it appears to be a rat snake. We went to the Museum of Science to check out NC snakes, and it does, indeed seem that it's a rat snake. Yes, I know it's not venomous. I know they're very common around homes. They like neighborhoods. (We've been dealing with mice coming in from the woods and fields; we're setting live traps and letting them go farther from the house, and I know that these snakes love mice. They also like birds' eggs, and maybe even birds). And, even though they're not venomous, if cornered (or stepped on)I think they would bite. Like I said, it's too close to the door and the steps. I worry most about my dogs getting bitten because they're liable to poke it if they find it on the ground; and if the door gets blown open by the wind (while we're in the yard), the snake might decide to go on the porch.
I don't want to kill it. I just want it to go away. How can I discourage it from perching practically on my doorstep? If he moves from the nest, and I get rid of the nest, will he go away? Or will that just make him burrow in somewhere else close by and I won't know he's there.
Here are two shots - one of the jasmine so you see the setting, and one of the snake in the nest. The nest is about midway up in the bush, at the level of the porch railing. Any and all suggestions welcome!
Last edited by swbtoo; 08-13-2008 at 03:37 PM..
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We have a jasmine right up against the screen on our screened porch, next to the door. In that thick bush is a small bird's nest, where a family of mockingbirds lived this spring.
The other morning, I went to let the dogs out and up against the screen was this small snake, maybe 2' long, with a speckled white underside.
It may have crawled up there to see if there's breakfast in it. For the next 2-3 days we didn't see it, but now I see it IN the nest! It seems to have decided to take up residence, and it is all a bit too close for comfort for me.
Tried to look it up on the net and it appears to be a rat snake. We went to the Museum of Science to check out NC snakes, and it does, indeed seem that it's a rat snake. Yes, I know it's not venomous. I know they're very common around homes. They like neighborhoods. (We've been dealing with mice coming in from the woods and fields; we're setting live traps and letting them go farther from the house, and I know that these snakes love mice. They also like birds' eggs, and maybe even birds). And, even though they're not venomous, if cornered (or stepped on)I think they would bite. Like I said, it's too close to the door and the steps. I worry most about my dogs getting bitten because they're liable to poke it if they find it on the ground; and if the door gets blown open by the wind (while we're in the yard), the snake might decide to go on the porch.
I don't want to kill it. I just want it to go away. How can I discourage it from perching practically on my doorstep? If he moves from the nest, and I get rid of the nest, will he go away? Or will that just make him burrow in somewhere else close by and I won't know he's there.
Here are two shots - one of the jasmine so you see the setting, and one of the snake in the nest. The nest is about midway up in the bush, at the level of the porch railing. Any and all suggestions welcome!
Move the nest and you move the source the snake is using for food therefore it will go somewhere else.
Keep your yard trimmed and use moth balls when needed around the home and if the nest has hatchings in it move the nest with rubber gloves to prevent the human scent on it and germs.
SunnyKayak, the nest is empty, except when the snake curls up in it. It has been empty since about June, when the last set of hatchlings left the nest.
My thought was to remove the nest when the snake leaves it, and it won't have any place to come back to -- except that it might settle somewhere else nearby and I won't know where.
Moth balls? Is that a snake repellent?
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