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Re: [RC] snakes - rides2farI hate snakes too. We are looking for retirement property and that is the one thing I research about each place considered. Just cleaning out my in-box (holiday :-) and skimming some of the "snakes" posts. Nobody seems to differentiate between "good snakes" and "bad snakes". The first thing you need to learn is which snakes are good. I have two 4' long black snakes that live in or near my barn. I love them because they are COPPERHEAD & RATTLESNAKE REPPELLENT! Black snakes will kill poisonous snakes and will eat their eggs. I have lived here 15 years now and I have seen many black snakes. I have never seen ONE poisonous snake. They also eat mice and can get up under the hay palletes where the barn cats can't go. They don't hurt a thing and once you bother to learn the difference they dont' look anything like the poisonous snakes. If you kill the black snakes those barn mice will draw poisonous snakes.There is also a $1,000 fine in the state of GA for killing a black snake. It's a very bad habit to group all snakes together. I'm in North Ga. at the southern edge of the Appalachians so I'm guessing your area will have some similarities. Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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