2006-08-25 14:24:39 · 9 answers · asked by fullhouse7x 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Yes to both!!! I am in Texas and in a lake area with lots and lots of poisonous snakes. I have yet to have a problem. It also works well with racoons. You have to set them around the perimeter of the area you want to protect about 2-4 inches apart, pushed down into the dirt about 1 inch. BE WARNED - they are poisonous to small children and pets if they eat them.
2006-08-25 14:33:39 · answer #1 · answered by joycaro 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about snakes, but my mother laid moth balls down and drove away a skunk that was trying to set up home under her porch..once gone, she filled in his burrows....but he didn't like the moth balls at all.
2006-08-25 21:28:09 · answer #2 · answered by cypress9silver 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hi!
I think they might! We had a woodchuck problem, (my fault I fed him, her actually and she had twins under my house in the spring), my husband said... two would become two more, then 8, etc. So I asked my vet how to discourage them without hurting them. He suggested mothballs poured down their backdoor before blocking it off securely, then in a week, pour more in their front door, then in a week block their front door off loosely, wait a few days to see if they had to dig out, then block it off permanently. It worked! They moved two houses down the block. I still let them eat corn at my birdfeeders, tho. p.s. but be careful, as they are harmful to kids and cats, too I think. In fact, I think a cat or dog, spayed and neutered! :-) of course, would work even better for you and be part of the family. I once had a cat who brought a snake in the kitchen for me, and a dog who "chased" the striped kitty right out of the yard. He smelled for a year!
2006-08-25 21:46:22 · answer #3 · answered by bobandsue M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We were told by dozens of people when we moved here to get a goat, and cut our azaela's. Well we did both and have not had a problem yet, though our neighbor has lost a dog to a rattler
2006-08-25 23:05:43 · answer #4 · answered by Amy S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a groundhog that thinks so...not only will moth balls do the job.. but it's safe...it's better than pesticides...
2006-08-25 21:35:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do but the hard part is holding their little legs apart so the snakes can smell them.
2006-08-25 21:29:32 · answer #6 · answered by david s 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
not skunks
yes snakes
2006-08-25 21:27:43 · answer #7 · answered by Cap'n Donna 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yep
2006-08-26 10:59:06 · answer #8 · answered by Texas T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,,, old wives tale..... no it does not work......
get some cats and dogs.. they work better...
good luck
2006-08-25 21:31:12 · answer #9 · answered by eejonesaux 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋