Help!!! Snake!!!!

If they truly are garter snakes, they are actually very beneficial to your yard and garden. They eat mice, voles and other small rodents, slugs and snails, insects, etc. They are completely harmless to humans.

Moving will not help. Just go in and fish them out and place them in an old pillowcase or burlap bag and relocate them. Then block any possible entrance so a new family does not move in, or any other critters. They are beneficial to the garden. Personally I would be happy to have them. Or . . . Hire someone to do for you.

I have heard moth balls work.

carefully pick them up and carry them off somewhere else? grab them by the tail, (they may poop on ya) handle them gently and they usually wont try to bite

they're 'good' snakes -- eat small rodents, etc. when food source is gone, they will be too . No reason to stay

E gads...people will pick up a slimy worm. but not a nice warm snake? Garter snakes are wonderful...they live under the plastic in my garden.......and eat all sorts of critters.

Snakes freak me out, but things have improved tremendously since I got a cat. However, he is a first-class hunter and in the early spring he enjoyed catching small snakes and bringing them on the patio right outside the door for me to see. After he played with them as long as they could move, he left them for me to dispose of. Yuck!

We got rid of a family of skunks with red pepper. Used a funnel to dump under the stoop. Might work for snakes.

they are so harmless and eat rodents and garden pests. can't you co exist?

Make a thick line of diatomaceous earth by your steps, fill any holes. Probably keeping mice out of your house, so pick your preference. I'd go with the harmless beneficial garder snake.