Snake Relocation

TARider

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A few times this year I've had to move a rat snake from under our sunroom (yard is a hill so sunroom is elevated with lattice around the bottom).
Yes, I know their benefits and blah blah blah but they make my dog go nuts and I just got a call from the wife that we have another one.
Do any of the powders or cayenne pepper or anything actually work to encourage them to hang out elsewhere? Not really wanting the smell of moth balls back there.
 
i can't tell you about all that but I relocate them straight to hell, don't do snakes 12 gauge, .22 , truck or tractor tire I don't discriminate.
 
Fabrik8 said:
Not cool. Support your local non-venomous snakes, they do good work.
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Down here redbellys copperheads and rattlers are everywhere, when your up under a dozer or tractor working you don't have much time to cull em.
 
anvilrubi said:
Down here redbellys copperheads and rattlers are everywhere, when your up under a dozer or tractor working you don't have much time to cull em.
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Black snakes, king snakes and rat snakes deter and even eat copper heads and rattlers.
 
From what I've read most snake deterrents only work on snakes with pit organs. The cinnamon or pepper extract irritates the organs. It doesn't work on black snakes and others because they don't have pits. It will work on copperheads, cotton mouths, and rattle snakes.

If you remove it and it keeps coming back then it probably has a good food source under there. Put out some mouse traps or baits.


Mothballs don't work for shit........
 
I live in a culdesac. My neighbor is a northern transplant, and is terrified of snakes. He's got so many mothballs scattered about his property that it stinks up the entire culdesac. With all of those mothballs a big ass black snake cruised right across his back porch shortly after he scattered em. It was quite comical.
This is the same guy who my wife had to show him how to jump his car off one day.
 
Get a 5 or 7 gal. bucket , stuff some pine straw and/or leaves and sticks in the bottom and lay it on the ground. Then push or steer the snake into the bucket, then you can relocate it safely.
 
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