Snake Repellers

[SkySoaringMagpie]

I've heard a few people saying recently that they've bought snake repellers and they work. I'm fairly sure I've seen others say they don't work.

Does anyone know any sources for an authoritative view? Has anyone here installed them and found they don't work?

Is it one of those "layers" of security thing where they would help if everything else was right (eg, no rodents, no rubbish, no water outside, grass cut down hard, etc etc)

[J.H.M]

have a look around on www.aussiepythons.com from memory I have seen it on there quite a few times and general consensus was most times they are not worth the trouble or expense

[poodlefan]

SSM, I have 3 friends on properties with them.

General consensus is that they don't seem to repell snakes all that well but they do slow them down, making them easier to deal with when you spot them.

[Asari]

Idont know if there are diferant one's around but i can say the ones that i have do a great job and have had no snakes in and around were i have them. They only do about 50sq metres so i have one were the dog yard is and one near the hay shed . The one at the hay shed proved itself within seconds when turned on as a snake came out of the shed moving so fast it took us by surpise all i can say is if that snake had legs it was running we always had/have snakes looking for a drink and had lost a few goats to snake bite we are now happy to leave a drink bowl out in the dog yard.

[Nannas]

Ok,

This might sound weird but here goes.

When we were outback I used to have a problem with snakes (not too bad but a couple over the hot season.)

Anyway, when I was visiting freinds they never ever had a problem..(this was at a mission)

I asked my freinds grandma (aboriginal elder) one afternoon as she was spraying something around the fenceline.

She said it was deisel. That it not only killed the grass but the snakes hated it and would not cross it if they didn't have to.

Apparently because it is oily and stays on the ground/grass, it sticks to their skin (gets under scales) and can sting like a biatch.

She says she does it each 2 weeks or so depending on the look of the ground. She does a strip about a foot wide. (6inch each side of fence)

I began doing this everywhere we lived and never had another snake in the yard again (although our neighbours did)

I don't know if it was coincidence or old folk tale type thing but I believed it enough to continue..

After moving back to the city I never even thought about looking it up..

[OSoSwift]

I posted a thread last years as I was going to buy six. The general consensus was they didn't work, but if I had the spare cash I would buy them anyway as even one snake sent on it's was is one less to deal with

[Poodle Mum]

Can definately vouch for keeping the lawn mown..........I was bitten on the foot by a snake on the weekend.....the day the lawn was to be getting mown

I was just happy it wasn't one of the dogs

[Sue Brown]

Friend of mine had her Dog bitten twice in 5 days last year, so she got the snake repellers to protect her property.

She placed snake repellers every 15 metres apart ( about 8 of them ).

She was seeing a snake every day for about 2 weeks, and hasn't seen one since.

I know she said the aussie python website said they didn't work and they even put a utube vidoe to show them not working, problem was they didn't actually install them correctly ( not deep enough ) they also held the snake for nearly all of the clip until the end, and it was a pet snake, also you couldn't actually hear the repeller working.

So she thinks it was a farce.

Her husband calls them the Elephant and snake repellers and they haven't seen either since installing them ( other than 2 red belly blacks about 250m away at one of their dams.

Although She say's we will only ever prove they don't work, not that they are

PS they Little dog survived 2 x Brown snake bites in 5 days, ( third bite in total ) although not the same since.

PPS she had Insurance and they paid up both times no questions asked.

[ozmalinois]

Don't waste your time and money!

We bought a heap of them and placed them alot closer together than recommended, as we had alot of snakes very close to the house and dog yards and we watched the snakes play around them!!

Diesel is supposed to work and lime as the snakes don't like to cross it. We placed shadecloth, fruit netting and snake wire on all the fences to try to keep the snakes out of the dog yards. We didn't get a snake in any of the pens with all that but had to walk every step everywhere else.

[SkySoaringMagpie]

Don't waste your time and money!

We bought a heap of them and placed them alot closer together than recommended, as we had alot of snakes very close to the house and dog yards and we watched the snakes play around them!!

Diesel is supposed to work and lime as the snakes don't like to cross it.

That was the kind of feedback I was after. There are three sorts we get around our place - red belly blacks, browns and tigers. The browns and tigers are not shrinking violets.

I have only ever seen one up close to the house but that was one too many. We've removed the last remaining bits of snake habitat - a low lying shrub near the house and a fenced off area of weeds near the garage. I may diesel the fence line instead. Lime is interesting, my dogs' breeder mentioned that lime is what they used to use back in England around their chicken houses.

Another option someone mentioned is hot wire. Our dog runs have a concrete slab base, it may be possible to run a wire without it touching the ground and earthing but I don't want it to touch the runs and wire up all the runs either. Will have to ponder some more. The runs are less of an issue at the moment than the exercise areas around the house. I'm probably asking too much but I'd like to be able to just open the door on a hot night and let them go do their thing.