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
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
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.
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.
Why not share your story about garden snakes here?
** Tell us your most interesting story.
** Offer advice and suggestions on how to rid the garden of these pests (remember the ones in my garden are capable of killing - they are not the kind you want).
** What ideas do you have to protect pets from garden snakes?
** Share a funny story with us. (I find once the subject of snakes comes up everyone has a story, and many are hilarious).
Send in your ideas and suggestions so the rest of us can learn how to live in harmony with them.
Some people use bird netting 
