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frazzled

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2. Yikes

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 12:06 PM

Oct 2012

The house we used to own in another state had a retaining wall in the back covered with English ivy. Never found a snake (or a rat) in it. But each spring and/or autumn I'd go out there with my pruners and have to thin out layers of old growth and dead vines. (It took hours and hours of hard work.) Maybe that kept the snakes away?

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English Ivy and snakes [View all] raccoon Oct 2012 OP

Rats love the stuff, too. BlueToTheBone Oct 2012 #1

Oooh, I didn't know that. Sounds like aStephen King novel....nt raccoon Oct 2012 #4

Nah...just LA. n/t BlueToTheBone Oct 2012 #5

Yikes frazzled Oct 2012 #2

Maybe that scared them off for the time. Also, did you have cats? I've heard that cats keep snakes raccoon Oct 2012 #3

Cats will kill small snakes Mariana Oct 2012 #6

English Ivy and snakes Katerelvis Oct 2012 #7

Good gosh, hope it wasn't poisonous. nt raccoon Oct 2012 #8