How to permanently get rid of snakes in a summer cottage: the reasons for their appearance, the effective means to combat them and preventive measures

If there are characteristic signs of a dangerous amphibian moving in, be sure to call the Ministry of Emergency Situations (112), the veterinary service, and be sure to SES and environmentalists, as well as snake specialists. It is not easy to attract specialists, be sure to inform the district police officer about your trouble. It is completely impossible to see a dangerous burrowing snake (the same viper), even if all the signs of its vital activity and habitation are present. Strange leathery testicles on the hot sand and a sick amphibian basking on heaps of waste in the warm rays of the May sun—once every few years, or rather decades. A metal mesh will help to save the animals, glazed window frames that have served their time, broken glass, slate, brick (cm 10) under the sand on the floor of the cage and around it, a double wooden floor, dense walls from the lower ends of the board buried in the ground, doors and an entrance are also in we deepen the ground, because the holes of reptiles are not usually deep at the exit. Our dough-grains into all holes in the ground, cellars and pits on the site. Protect yourself and your pets from a dangerous neighborhood! With Uv. to the valiant authors of the article.

Dear summer residents! Walking along the steep sandy bank of the reservoir and noticing the entrance holes of the lairs of burrowing snakes (with their rarest seasonal activity this year), we risk getting a bite. 100% - if we decide to walk on last year's densely laid down grass on top of which there is green tall grass. A snake bite is always an even red wound (or three), initially painless, later burning, swelling and pronounced redness are found at the site of the bite. It is good if the bite falls on the bone of the foot (as in my case) and if there is no allergy. I apply hydrocartisone ointment around the wound (from my grandmother's first aid kit), with insect bites (even wasps), it is indicated and the erysipelas that has begun is localized instantly, and local swelling and redness soon disappear. After examining a doctor, lubricate with fucorcin. In the morning, of course, there will be bite symptoms: dizziness, tinnitus, decreased visual acuity, muscle pain and weakness in the affected leg.It is necessary to "cancel" honey. drugs and do not use the same captopril, for example, antibiotics and acetylsalicylic acid and others that increase blood circulation and vasodilating drugs before consulting a therapist in the nearest emergency department. Presumptuously I took a pill of cofitsil (not for the first time for me, and, moreover, in the bone, a superficial “graft”) and glucose with ascorbic acid. It is better, of course, to avoid snake bites and not to neglect the rules of your own safety. Bless you!

It is good that I am no longer alone in the question, which is a hundred years old in our house. Don't repeat our mistakes. You need to start from the house inside (and not like some: “took out the trash, spread the barbecue and arranged a barbecue” - this is how we cut off the path for the reptiles from the house to the food environment. In all secluded places (and in the cellar), spread out the tablets from rodents, and pour tobacco (the cheapest of packs) over the batteries and around the perimeter. Into the sofa and armchair as well - otherwise you risk being stung in a dream by disturbed creatures and becoming a “vegetable” for a year. In four days, the snake will leave the house and die on the territory. Only after pour soot from the chimney under the steps (these are my plans for tomorrow).It's good if there is a dog with a "lower instinct" - you will know by its behavior that the snake has crawled out into the grass.Further task: to dig a trench for animals.They, of course, you need to move it to a smoked cage (I dripped the remains of a fire with wormwood around the perimeter of the cage). Lay out the slate, metal, tin cans and bricks in the trench, wormwood on top (as advised in the article) and on top, see 10 dry garbage. In damp calm weather, set fire to and no admission direct combustion, of course. By these measures, I localized the poisoned snakes in the ground under the shed (I called mine “white jaguana” for the brutal reprisal against birds and animals.) The smell of smoke underground will not allow other reptiles to appear from the side of the forest lake (10 meters from the fence and two weeks after the first "pills" again, the animals became very restless, even afraid to go into the grass. I realized that snakes make their holes for centuries and cannot quickly create new ones. My grandfather secured our housing for many years (the same slate, roofing felt and rubber with tar firewood were already around the perimeter) as we thought, “from foxes.” The snakes themselves will not go anywhere. ) and the snakes didn’t go to any smell. This year their activity is obvious. Can you imagine how they can be “fed” on chickens and tomatoes? It was on the beds that my “jaguana” came out of the barn to eat roots and mice. in a trench with on the other side of the barn without the “burner”. For the last two years, I have ceased to find eggs in the sand: by “burning” under the beds, I forever separated the “jaguar” in the cellar from the “jaguana” in the barn. I received an addition both in the house (and in the barn (. So far, there are only lizards on the site. Moles and mice would be happy to see.There were never mice in our barn, only rats and black weevils, very nimble, but this winter they disappeared too. But there have always been victims that terrify me. Do not console yourself with the thought that a dog, especially a cat or a kite, magpie, ate a full cage of chickens without a trace. Birds tend to scatter, hide in the grass or under the crotch. A dog of one and only will not eat, but “squeeze”, especially a cat (can you imagine how many traces a cat leaves from a mouse? A rodent will also have time to sleep on a sheet in cat paws (Yes, the most important thing: do not overdo it and do not set fire to stumps: they need to be left, next spring, if they don’t turn green, uproot (and that’s the only way!).Every summer resident needs to be very careful with the roots.At first (especially under the trees) you need to start mustard and garlic with onions - this is known to any “hereditary” dacha resident. Take care of yourself! Thank you.

Why can't you dig holes? And set fire to tree stumps?

Because your "radical" measures are simply dangerous, and for you in the first place. To solve issues unknown to me, I always rely on the recommendations of specialists and have never regretted it. The site is wonderful, the district police inspector and the veterinarian deserve my special thanks! The advice works: in the lilac bush, in the yard, the birds chirped and in the garden today I “saw” a happy couple of woodpeckers. And that's great.

The most basic measure to combat burrowing snakes is obvious: it is a ban on placing open animal burial grounds within five kilometers of the nearest farms and buildings. Of course, in my area such an unacceptable location of dead animals has been eliminated as usual, but prohibition signs are also needed in traditional places (in our case it was the nearest copse that turns into a forest). Forest vipers live in the forest and return there. Steppe-in ​​the steppe. And if the herd of cattle in the steppe is safe in the summer, then in the sheds that are attacked by forest vipers during the most dangerous spring-winter period, domestic animals, unfortunately, die from poison (it is during this period that burrowing snakes go hunting and attack, despite snow (in deep burrows they are of little interest in the weather) and concomitant infectious diseases that spread through a deep bite (even tetanus, and some types of coronavirus-animals have always been ill with it, although I am not an expert.) I don’t think that my conclusion not correct. After all, it was made with the involvement of specialists and on the basis of personal experience in the fight against the "serpentine flood"! From the fun: an excellent harvest of radishes and carrots. I would even call it a "harvest with meaning". It turned out three types of carrots in four beds, located from the poultry house to the barn. Namely: white, the usual orange color and dark (almost black). pleased: as usual, all the seeds in one bed (onions, cabbage, lettuce, basil, mustard, dill, carrots, at least something would have grown) - I had to remove the lettuce and onions earlier and transplant the cabbage with stronger roots into others wells. A dark-colored carrot symbolizes the activity of an underground fire. I bred it in a closed hole in the poultry house, once. Apparently, right: the smoke got into the hole obliquely from the poultry house to the barn (it is at least half a meter deep in the sand), on the surface of the smoky hole such “smoky” carrots grew. This is my first harvest of carrots - after all, I have been sowing it in this place for three years and there have never been shoots. Here is such a cheerful harvest mixed with smoke. Of course, it is necessary to find a hole and close up the entrance and exit with sheep's wool. Over time, if no one uses it, the hole itself will “fall”. It is a pity that many residents do not notice the obvious and blame their neighbors and disperse from the villages, abandoning farms, pastures rich in grass (on which supposedly “the wrong grass” grows from which cows swell and die and mowing.It is a pity for our old farms, because we do not have such perseverance and hard work as our grandmothers and parents have. My experience will definitely help someone. And, I hope, not in imposing yet another ban on what has helped people to develop the land for centuries. With the victory of us, of course.