| If you happen to come accross a snake in your house | | | | Other tacktics include spraying it from a distance with |
| or garden the first thing to do is to resist the urge to | | | | a high pressure hose or opening the garden sprinklers. |
| attack it with a broom or stick or any other form of | | | | This will have the effect of 'persuading' the snake to |
| stick for that matter. Snakes can jump quite high and | | | | leave the area.The thing to do after that is to find out |
| strike you just as well as if they were on the ground. | | | | why the snake came to your area. Do you keep |
| Sometimes if the snake is in the house they may be | | | | rodents or birds? Are there birds nesting in your |
| on a slippery floor surface that reduces it's ability to | | | | garden or in the eves of your house? Do you have a |
| move efficiently. If this is the case the best thing to do | | | | rodent problem on the house or garden. Note that in |
| is to place a heavy object like a big book on top of it. | | | | places like the USA this can be problematic because |
| This will limit it's ability to move still further. Be careful | | | | animals like chipmonks and squirrels are everywhere. |
| though. Use the book as a shield in approaching the | | | | Snakes, however, like mice and rats and other small |
| snake.Please note that I do not advocate killing snakes | | | | rodents. Again in places like the USA, where buildings |
| if you have any way of calling a trained expert to | | | | are mainly made out of timber, rodents often find easy |
| remove it. Snakes are a necessary part of the | | | | shelter in the space between the outside and inside |
| environment and play a vital role in controlling certain | | | | walls. If you hear scatchings or find evidence of mouse |
| species. Only if you have no other option available to | | | | trails in your kitchen, get an expert to solve the |
| you should you consider killing it.It is always a | | | | problem. Remember, No mice, No snakes.A mouse |
| veryadvisable to find out about distinguishing non | | | | can get through a hole the width of a pencil with no |
| venomous snakes from the vonomous ones in your | | | | problem at all. Make sure there are no holes in your |
| area so that you don't kill the non venomous ones by | | | | walls. Fill them immediately. High pitched sound devices |
| mistake. It is of the utmost importance not to kill non | | | | are now becoming a popular way to discourage |
| venonous snakes because they actually control the | | | | vermin from entering our home. Evidence shows that |
| population of venomous snakes by actively preying on | | | | there is some proof to this claim. Having one installed |
| them.If you have decided that there is no alternative | | | | can be a good idea. Remember snakes always follow |
| other than to kill the venomous snake the next thing to | | | | their food source.Snakes do not take any active |
| do is to either chop it in two with a long handled, broad | | | | interest in humans and all contact between them and |
| bladed garden hoe. I still say it's best to call the PDSA | | | | us in merely coincidental. The threat of snake bite is |
| and get them to send an expert out to collect the | | | | quite remote exactly for this reason. If, however, |
| snake if at all possible. Usually they will catch it and | | | | somebody in your vacinity is bitten it is important to |
| release it somewhere far away from human habitat.If | | | | establish the following procedure; move the person to |
| the Snake is found in a drawer or somewhere difficult | | | | a safe place and keep them calm. Establish what kind |
| to access leave it alone, move all family members | | | | of snake bit the person. If you can safely kill it for |
| away from the immediate area and most of all do not | | | | identification, do so. If not, make a mental note of it's |
| attempt to interact with it at all. Call the PDSA, or | | | | markings. Call the emergency services to evacuate |
| RSPCA, and get them to collect it. If they do not have | | | | the wounded person or evacuate them yourself if |
| a snake catcher they will contact a trusted | | | | they are not critically ill. Meeting the ambulance on the |
| professional snake catcher.If you come accross a | | | | way is another good option. Keep calm and keep the |
| venomous snake in the garden the first thing to do is | | | | patient calm.Hi, I'm andy Routledge. I write articles on a |
| to get everyone away from it. If you actually do need | | | | wide range of topics and I would love to write articles |
| to kill it, do this with a long handled, broad edged hoe | | | | for you. If you like my writing style please contact me |
| simply choping the snake in half as previously stated. | | | | to discuss how we can co-operate. |