Snakes - Driving them away, Keeping them in their proper place
By RBBantiles
@RBBantiles (347)
Philippines
July 15, 2011 12:07am CST
I would like to ask our fellow MyLotters if you have any idea how to drive snakes away. Old folks in the Philippines advise us that one way to drive snakes away is to throw garlic at them and put garlic in their lairs. So that no snake will dare visit your house, you should surround your house with garlic plants.
Have you information on folk wisdom about driving snakes away without killing them? You see, my friends in Media and I intend to help the Indigenous People residing in a forested area located in the Davao City-Bukidnon boundary in Mindanao develop their Ancestral Domain. We certainly do not like to kill the snakes for the purpose of maintaining environmental balance. Snakes control rats and other animals that damage crops. So I would like to keep them in their ecological niche but in their proper place in the local geography.
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
19 Jul 11
Hi RBBantiles, we have own our traditional method prevent snakes approaching our house compound as well as to drive them away using sulphur powder. We can get such yellowish powder from the local chinese medical shops here. As what we know snake really scare of the pungent smell of sulphur when oxidized in air. Spreading powder near the snake lairs will drive them away very soon 
We usually will prepare the required amount of sulphur before we go for camping. The powder was spread in the surrounding of the camping tent to prevent snakes and other poisonous to go near the tents. Anyway it's nice to evict those undesired creatures which may hurt us better than to kill them, as all living creatures are having equal right to survive in this planet. Moreover snakes would hurt others only when they try to protect themselves from attacking.
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We usually will prepare the required amount of sulphur before we go for camping. The powder was spread in the surrounding of the camping tent to prevent snakes and other poisonous to go near the tents. Anyway it's nice to evict those undesired creatures which may hurt us better than to kill them, as all living creatures are having equal right to survive in this planet. Moreover snakes would hurt others only when they try to protect themselves from attacking.
Happy posting 
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
20 Jul 11
You are very much welcome RBBantiles
The way we use to drive away and avoid snake to approach our living place is an instant method and it works well for temporarily. The unwelcome creature would come again if there are bushes here and there in our house compound. Thick bushes seem to be a safe and comfortable habitat for them. On account of this we clear our yard regularly to make sure that there isn't any safety place for them to settle down 
If garlic plants really work efficiently to drive away the snake. It's nice to grown such plants in our surrounding. How great it would be as we can get double benefits by doing so. Yeah, getting healthy and nutritious harvest from the plants at the same time. Take care and have a nice day
The way we use to drive away and avoid snake to approach our living place is an instant method and it works well for temporarily. The unwelcome creature would come again if there are bushes here and there in our house compound. Thick bushes seem to be a safe and comfortable habitat for them. On account of this we clear our yard regularly to make sure that there isn't any safety place for them to settle down
If garlic plants really work efficiently to drive away the snake. It's nice to grown such plants in our surrounding. How great it would be as we can get double benefits by doing so. Yeah, getting healthy and nutritious harvest from the plants at the same time. Take care and have a nice day @RBBantiles (347)
• Philippines
19 Jul 11
Thank you very much for the information, Friend Ikbooi. It will greatly help. And that's true, and I agree with you, that animals too have a right to this planet. Many of these may even have preceded humanity in this common home of ours. It is just fortunate that humanity has attained the power of reason. To paraphrase the Uncle of Spiderman, "With great power comes great responsibility." Humanity has not yet come to fully realize and to exercise with enthusiasm the great responsibility for all forms of life, as well as the basis for those forms of life, the objects that are inanimate, but without which life on Earth would be intolerable, if not impossible. Have a nice day too.
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@anodalim_22 (1)
• Philippines
7 May 12
All you guys are correct specially Ikbooi(9426), what should we bear in our minds that animals too have their own rights to live they are also God's creation. so if you wish to live without them, just clean your surroundings and your house i think that is pretty healthy life i guess. thanks from anodalim_22
@kareemadivina (1230)
• Philippines
16 Jul 11
I heard that snakes are afraid of cats, you can take cats as pets while keeping snakes away.
@RBBantiles (347)
• Philippines
17 Jul 11
Thanks, I will certainly do that. Cats will also control rats, so snakes will have no inducement to approach human habitation if there are no rats there. Thank you, Friend Kareemadivina.
@surfer222 (1714)
• Indonesia
15 Jul 11
several months ago my house got unwanted visit by some snake and to get rid of them i use salt, now every now and then i put salt around my house.. i think snake don't like salt. i never try garlic but if i see a snake i'll try it...
@RBBantiles (347)
• Philippines
15 Jul 11
Thank you very much, Friend Surfer222. I will keep salt in mind and inform my media friends about it.
