SNAKES IN MY HOUSE!!

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OK HERE IT IS........ I HAVE THIS PROBLEM WITH SNAKES IN MY HOUSE AND NEED TO GET RID OF THEM!!!!!!!!! I NOW HAVE ONE LIVING IN THE WALLS OF THIS PLACE AND I'M DEATHLY AFFRIAD OF IT! AND DON'T WAN'T TO SLEEP IN MY BED ROOM, ( WHERE I FOUND IT!!) DOSE ANYONE KNOW HOW I CAN GET RID OF THIS PEST OF ALL PEST??? PLESE...I'M DESPRATE! PETROFIED TO SLEEP!!

-- Lenore Packard (ljpncrw@juno.com), August 11, 2002

Answers

They really don't like mothballs. I've Used them before and it does help. I know it would make your house smell, but if I had snakes in my house I'd have mothballs in my pj's before I'd sleep. Jean from Ky.

-- jean from ky. (jky@ky.com), August 12, 2002.

Poor Lenore. I know that feeling of panic and fear! LOL!

Before I remodeled the "old" farmhouse, it sat vacant for 15 years, used as a chicken house, sometimes a goat nursery, puppy maternity ward,. . . you name it. The place was full of trash and junk, and living in the walls were squirrels, mice, birds, bees, snakes, and heaven knows what else. ( I know 'cause I tore off all the old plaster and lath myself, and saw the stuff inside there).

One day while the rehab was underway, probably about half finished, I walked into my future office/den and over against the wall was a HUGE blacksnake. At least 8 feet, . . .HONEST. . . .I took a picture of it stretched out comfy as could be.

While I was trying to decide what to do next, ( after the picture posing session), and with those snake hater shivers running up and down my backbone, he took off, shimmied onto the heating vent and left. I thought he dropped down into the kitchen, and was verrrry carefully looking for him, to no avail. I probably would not have gone near that room for a very long time if that snake had not turned up. . . . but. . . I went and found the carpenter, a far braver snake person than I, and he went looking to see if he could find it.

While we were standing in the future office facing a window, we saw that snake go sliding past the window, and we raced over and watched it climb down the side of the house and then down the scaffolding coming from the attic.

I was weary for a long time, but once the house was finished, all new interior walls, and the holes siliconed in the outside walls, I've not seen or heard from the fellow, nor his relatives again. Thank goodness.

Now to your question. LOL! Have you seen the plug in things in the stores that are supposed to emit a high tone varmints cannot stand? My DIL swears they keep the mice at bay - - she uses one.

Other than that, I can only suggest you try to plug any entry routes.

Errrrrgh. Gives me the shivers ! ! LOL!

-- Granny Hen (cluckin along@cs.com), August 19, 2002.


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