Mothballs

Aleonard, I think you just posted that response on the wrong thread.

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Amen. Sad to see someone throw away so much life on such trivial pursuits.

Yep, mothballs do repel critters, although I think there is something in them that are really bad for you (carcinogenic and all that). I had a snake in my garage that I didn't discourage because they made the mice disappear. My mom then put in mothballs - the snake disappeared but now the mice are back!

On the owls: I read somewhere that the idea behind the owls is to scare away small birds and rodents that might be snake food, therefore discouraging the snakes?

More on snakes: I also saw somewhere on the internet a suggestion to put realistic fake coral snakes in your yard to discourage other snakes. Is that a good idea, or more of a tinfoil comment?

Two friends from Atlanta said they didn't know what I was talking about when I asked them about these. Have any of you guys ever smelled mothballs?

King Snakes (the big black ones) are territorial. If you have a king snake, you won't have rattlesnakes or copperheads. My dad used to keep them around if he found one, but they were bad to try to cross the road.

He also said that he never got used to seeing them around--he would go out to the woodpile and it would scare the spit out of him.

You should have know that you were gonna get a "rise" out of everyone from this. Mothballs make me think of my dad's mother. She had mothballs everywhere.

I was heckled right off the bat by dd , and greenroomsurfer stole my thunder . My step dad's mom had them everywhere too and his father used listerine to slick his own hair back. I guess for the scalp cuz it is antiseptic? The mixture of mothballs and listerine odors could nearly knock you out. They were really super people though.