SNAKE REPELLENT

[Officially Retired]

True and it will get costly after awhile as well.

Yep, not to mention work-intensive as well as environmentally-irresponsible.

Another thing to think about when trying to control the ecosystem of the snakes is, what you are feeding. If your feeding kibble and keeping it stored in a place where mice and rats can get to it they will bed and reproduce which will make the area more attractive to snakes because of a food supply.

That is absolutely true ... which is yet another reason not to feed kibble.

Jack I'm no wild life expert by far. But don't some snakes climb? I know that I was out tracking my dog one summer morning and there was a black snake hanging from a tree. But then again black snakes are good snakes to have around right?

Good point, and yes again, some snakes do climb. However, in America, the only climbing snakes are non-venomous (rat snakes, corn snakes, racers and whipsnakes, etc.). Rattlesnakes do not climb and neither do copperheads or moccasins, and coral snakes are burrowing animals, spending most of their lives underground. There are no arboreal venomous snakes in the US ... however in Africa, South America, etc. that is another story.

So, in the USA, keeping your dogs in an above-ground pen is a 100% effective measure, it does not harm the environment, and (once the pen is built) does not entail a constant re-distribution of chemicals.

Jack