Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent

RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post By Me Too (Guest Post) (09/18/2008) I took 2 boxes of mothballs and a slingshot and started shooting them under our mobile home. Now I wish I hadn't been so stupid. Should have looked at this before. The smell permeates and ends up in the house. How I am going to find these things under this house I just don't know. How long to they last? DON'T MAKE THIS MISTAKE. Make sure you can find them and get rid of them. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post By mabry22 AT comcast.net (Guest Post) (09/09/2008) Just in case moth balls don't work where can I purchase lime or sulphur? Thank You. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post By Laice (Guest Post) (07/19/2008) If we put lime out for the snakes, if the dogs touch it or lick it, will it hurt them? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post by oredwine1933 (11) | (06/28/2008) Contact We had a skunk under the house. My husband put mothballs under there through the crawl space. After the skunk left, he closed all openings and we have not seen any since. I live near the river and get a lot of different animals. I saw snake skins in the yard and I put mothballs all over the yard and have not seen any since. Maybe some areas of the country the animals are hardier and survive more repellants. Right now I can not get rid of fire ants.I have used everything. Still thriving. They are tough SURVIVORS. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post By gary (Guest Post) (06/15/2008) Not so sure moth balls work, but it has been proven that lime will get rid snakes. It keeps them away and if they go through the lime it will burn their skin. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post By Loren . (Guest Post) (05/17/2008) Yes they do work. We started using them in our barn here in Northern Nevada. Our neighbors have all had snakes this year except us. This is our first year using them but after all the snakes we had last year and the lack of snakes this year; I believe they work. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post By Tommy Young (Guest Post) (02/18/2008) WE live on a creek in S.W. Georgia and mothballs have proven to me they work years 2003 to 2006 we have killed 12 to 17 poisonous snakes each year[cotton mouth,rattle,copperhead] day and night around the house and bushes and last year 2007 we put out mothballs every other month or when they disolve and only killed one rattlesnake and it was nowhere around the mothballs but dont just put out one or two put them out heavy. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post By (Guest Post) (01/23/2008) We have been using moth balls a long time. It's working 4 us. Old folk say they work. Mr and Mrs Bessmer City, NC Report Spam or Abuse RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post By Marcia (Guest Post) (01/14/2008) Mothballs do work as a repellent for cats. We had a gang of wild cats in our neighborhood. We put the balls under our porch. As soon as the cats would get close to the porch they started crying. Then they left and never came back. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post by Paula Jo Carr (9) | (09/09/2006) Contact No moth balls I know for a fact do not work. When my children were younger we rented & lived in a 100 year old farm house in the western NC area. The house became infested with snakes which (I found out) were after the mice in the walls YUK!) Needless to say after killing a few snakes within the house itself we moved from there & into another state! I have seen SNAKE AWAY which is a repellant that you use to keep the snakes a bay in the area that you want taken care of. Google Snake Away and see what you come up with, good luck! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post By dean (Guest Post) (09/08/2006) Moth balls to repell animals is a myth.If you put them in a burrow the animal just tosses them out.On the ground animals just move around them.Some people use them thinking they are effective.But there is no harm in letting folks believe this stories.Use them if you want but they are not animal deterants. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post by looklady (3) | (09/08/2006) Profile | Contact For 2 -3 years there have been snakes, garden, I think in my neighborhood. At the first sight of one I put mothballs around my house and my fenced in yard. I saw one small snake this year but it was dead. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Do Mothballs Work as a Snake Repellent Post by ThriftyFun (3740) | (09/07/2006) Profile | Blog! | Contact Some people say they do but others have complained about trying to get the smell out of their attics. What might be best if you want to try it is to put them in cheesecloth or something so they will be easy to locate when you want to remove them. If you just throw some up there, they will be difficult to locate each mothball. People don't like the smell of mothballs any better than snakes or moths. Susan from ThriftyFun Report Spam or Abuse