Your heart is pounding, your forehead sweating, every muscle tensing and goose-bump rising; before you can think—before your brain can even conjure the word “snake”—your limbs have frozen in place. Your body is alerting you to what your eyes have seen. As you halt, you finally register a little Garter snake as it slides off through your garden. Thousands of years of vulnerable Homo sapiens struggling to evade snake predation have led to this … [Read more...]
How to Get Rid of Snakes
Non-venomous snakes are generally not a danger to people or pets, but being startled by one living close to your house is rarely experienced as a pleasant surprise. If you want to get rid of snakes living around your home, this common sense guide explains how to eliminate the things that attract snakes and how to seal up potential entry points that snakes might use to get inside your home. First, though, it’s worth considering the useful role … [Read more...]