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Garden Snake

Not everyone has to contend with learning how to deal with a garden snake, if that’s you, then, lucky you!

We have become quite experienced in finding and preventing them in our house garden. It was a total shock to learn they were there.

I have lost count of the amount of times I was within striking distance, I even trod on one once!


Where we used to live we had to contend with the following

* Brown - Pseudechis australis
* Tiger -
Notechis scutatus
* Copperhead
* Whip
* Redbellied black

know first aid in case of snake bite

All of them are extremely venomous – all are in the top ten most venomous in the world. We lived in a very small rural area and during summer an average of 5 dogs were bitten each week by a garden snakee with less than half surviving. That is just so distressing and I hope these pages will help prevent some of these deaths.


NATURAL WAYS ON HOW TO GET RID OF SNAKES FROM YOUR GARDEN
small snakeSome people use bird netting

small snakeWhy oh why do they go under the house

small snakeClean up fallen fruit and compost

small snakeOld piles of rubbish need to be cleaned up

small snakeThey loose their habitat during floods

small snakeTake care around the woodshed

small snakeWonder why they like rain tanks


OUR DOGS - CATS- GOATS AND HUMANS

small snake How our giant schnauzer reacts with them

small snake Our boxer has a very different approach to copperheads

small snakeCats can be good hunters

small snakeOur first experience

small snakeVitamin C report


MORE HANDY HINTS

small snakeMore facts and information

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List of them in the US

List of them in Australia

You can live in the countryside and share it with these interesting neighbors so long as you become educated and make smart choices about your environment. They are very much part of life in rural Australia, you just have to accept that.

They certainly make an unusual garden pest and stories of our adventures with them keep our city friends enthralled - it might also explain why they prefer to visit us in the cold winter months.



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I live in Australia. I know many of you reading my site come from the US.
Regardless of where you live the best way to reduce snakes in your garden is to stop providing them with shelter, food and water. You can see many different ideas on these snake pages to help eliminate your snake population without resorting to killing them or getting bitten yourself.

With intelligent garden design there should be no reason to kill a snake.

Get educated here.


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When I Found a Garden Snake  Not rated yet
It was Sunday morning May 17,09.

I was digging in the rocks next to my house and I found a tail I said, 'Dad I think I found a snake'.

He said, 'really'...


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