Poison to kill snakes?

[huahinjim]

Try throwing some limes (but remember to keep one back for the g&t per above) around the property. Apparently snakes don't like the smell and they stay away. May need to repeat periodically - the g&t that is.

[devehrey]

Agree with you HHF. I too have only found the M Pit Viper to be an arrogant bastard. Found quite a few of them on the property, but none in the last 2 or 3 months. I did kill the ones I found as I have two young kids, and like you say, the MPV's don't seem to be keen on moving when you spot them. Also, it's always at night that I discover them, thanks to my Rottweiler.

The main concern I'd have about the snake under your house is your Rottweiler. If he is like my dogs he will go after any snake with no concern for being bitten, so you could lose him.

As for bats, we have a meter crawlspace under our house with two openings to allow people (Thais, not me! ) to go under there to work on electrical, plumbing, and bug spraying. For the first year we lived in the house I just left the holes open (they're in the back of the house) and an entire colony of bats moved in. When we sat on the porch or balcony at night with the lights on they would swoop back and forth by all the lights eating the bugs. Anyway the wife didn't like them so I had doors installed on the openings under the house and then for several evenings I opened the doors before sunset and then closed them again when we went to bed to let the bats out and block them from going back in (didn't want to trap them in there to slowly die). After a while they all found a new place to live.

Actually, we thought the same. I felt more concerned about my dogs whenever they play at the backyard. I'm afraid they might get bitten by cobras or vipers.

[deepee]

A friend told me he's been catching snakes that try to get into his chickens pen by using old scraps of fish netting laid around the pen. The trap works better if an egg is in the center of the tangled up netting.Suppose this sort of trap could work in any place snakes are a problem.

[Aussie Mark]

The fishing net will definately work .Here in Perth Western Australia we have a pretty deadly snake called a Dugite .In my back yard I have set up a prawn net to stop my sons cricket ball from destroying the garden .We went outside for a hit and noticed the net moving sure enough a 4 foot dugite tangled up in the net . No we dont have snakes in every backyard as most people think ,but I live across the road from the river and dugites are quite common around wetlands.Oh also killed a baby cobra at my house 2 weeks ago in Hua Hin .When I say baby it was about 3 foot long and no Im not Steve Irwin my pool man actually killed it .I bravely watch from the balcony