Thread: Snake repllent

My greatest fear when visiting Asia is snakes, not helped by being just missed by a Burmese Krait on a visit to Bagan. I was sent this recipe for snake repellent , maybe its of use to you chaps that live in Asia.

120 ml Oil of Cloves
20 ml Eucalyptus oil
20 ml Tea tree Oil
20 ml Lavender Oil
20 ml Sandalwood Oil
Dilute to one litre of water, respray every month.

It comes from Allan Burnett at Reptile Awareness Displays of Australia. Good friend of mine me tells it keeps them out of his yard.

Originally Posted by Bower

120 ml Oil of Cloves
20 ml Eucalyptus oil
20 ml Tea tree Oil
20 ml Lavender Oil
20 ml Sandalwood Oil
Dilute to one litre of water, respray every month.

It comes from Allan Burnett at Reptile Awareness Displays of Australia. Good friend of mine me tells it keeps them out of his yard

In any event it should be of help to any asthmatic snakes who suffer with stress.

Originally Posted by can123

Originally Posted by Bower

120 ml Oil of Cloves
20 ml Eucalyptus oil
20 ml Tea tree Oil
20 ml Lavender Oil
20 ml Sandalwood Oil
Dilute to one litre of water, respray every month.

It comes from Allan Burnett at Reptile Awareness Displays of Australia. Good friend of mine me tells it keeps them out of his yard

In any event it should be of help to any asthmatic snakes who suffer with stress.

They prefer Tiger Calm

Repellent and prevention: watch where you walk....

Mongoose piss.

Works wonders, snakes instantly get pissed off and piss off away in a hurry.

Sprinkle a little in a perimeter around where you are, snakes remember, and won't want to come back.

^ Fook, mate...For a moment I thought you were recommending drinking a glass each day...

Where do you get the mongoose piss from, is it sold online.

You "pry it from their cold dead hands"...

Originally Posted by crackerjack101

Walk softly,

On the contrary, walk with loud, thudding footsteps, so as to give them a chance to slither away. You don't want to surprise them.

A few months ago I was standing at the edge of a large waste land at the end of the soi. Quietly contemplating nature, when I finished my smoke I went to turn around and saw a large snake had come out of the long grass and was loosely coiled not 40 cm from my right foot. It had not been there when I arrived. I jumped, it was startled, and beat a retreat back to the long grass.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

walk with loud, thudding footsteps, so as to give them a chance to slither away.

True.

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

^ Fook, mate...For a moment I thought you were recommending drinking a glass each day...

Wew! What an idea!

My skin's as smooth as a baby's bottom without resorting to sucking the golden nectar!

Originally Posted by wasabi

Where do you get the mongoose piss from, is it sold online.

Good idea for a new business angle....hmmm.

What ya do is buy a mongoose or two, (they like company) and keep them in a decent sized cage with a gridded floor, allows their piss to run through into a tray beneath which you then empty into a glass jar.

Only need to do that a few times to keep supplies going.

The problem these days is that the Asian mongoose is a protected species, but Hill-tribe or Burmese don't worry about that.

You could buy one at the Warorot Chiangmai market a few years ago
So acquire one discreetly.

They're quite easily trained, are very playful, and can be run on a leash off a long wire along a boundary wall. Two such set-ups for two mongooses, or they'll get tangled up.

They'll eat, scorpions, spiders, lizards, geckos, any insects, birds eggs, chicks and even small birds....they also love any meat scraps, even bacon, but rarely eat snake after killing them.

Careful when first handling them, they've got a nasty bite and their claws are sharp, so wear leather gauntlets as used by welders, to handle them until they get used to you.

Let them free to roam around the garden before they get used to living the high life and have bonded with you, and they'll be gone. Generally though, once domesticated, they're as loyal as dogs, and love attention and playing games, just as dogs do.

Failing all that, you could approach the local zoo,or safari park, as in Chiangmai and ask to buy some of their mongoose piss.

Originally Posted by crackerjack101

Originally Posted by Maanaam

walk with loud, thudding footsteps, so as to give them a chance to slither away.

True.

Snakes are more scared of you than you are of them!

As you say, slap your feet on the ground as you walk through long grass, jungle, etc, and they'll feel the vibrations a long way off and will head the other way.

I spend a fair bit of time in the forests and very rarely see a snake they are certainly there for I have a friend who goes looking for them and he finds plenty, mostly at night.
The ones I do see are usually dead on the roads, saw 3 last week they have been forced up from the river banks by the floods. We do have at least one Pit Viper in the garden but no problem.

Very unlikely to get bitten by a snake and consider yourself lucky if you see one.

Falling of balconies and road accidents, particularly on motorbikes, seem to be the most common causes of death among tourists, try to avoid them.

7 children die in motocy accidents per day in Thailand, = 2,500 or so children a year.

Another 200 youths on motocys are killed per week here, 7,3000 a year.

Snake bite deaths are around 8 < 30 per year.

I love mongoose, I was read the story by Ruggard Kiplings " Rikkie tikkie tarvie" as a kid. Don't think kids today get to read that mongoose story .

Originally Posted by birding

Falling of balconies and road accidents, particularly on motorbikes, seem to be the most common causes of death among tourists, try to avoid them.

Who, the tourists?

^ Yeah, they might fall on you...

Originally Posted by Bower

120 ml Oil of Cloves
20 ml Eucalyptus oil
20 ml Tea tree Oil
20 ml Lavender Oil
20 ml Sandalwood Oil

So basically you make yourself smell like a forest? Then when you spot a snake you wait until you're told 'Run, Forest, Run.'?

Yeah sure. And the next time I swim in shark infested waters I'll cover myself in cod liver oil shall I?

Originally Posted by Gazza

Originally Posted by Bower

120 ml Oil of Cloves
20 ml Eucalyptus oil
20 ml Tea tree Oil
20 ml Lavender Oil
20 ml Sandalwood Oil

So basically you make yourself smell like a forest? Then when you spot a snake you wait until you're told 'Run, Forest, Run.'?

Yeah sure. And the next time I swim in shark infested waters I'll cover myself in cod liver oil shall I?

Wish I had a green to give you.

Originally Posted by wasabi

Where do you get the mongoose piss from, is it sold online.

It's not "a thing". He's just extrapolating from using tiger urine to deter stray dogs and cats from your property. THAT is a thing though I don't know how effective.
I seriously doubt snakes in Thailand would flinch at mongoose urine....for one thing, mongoose are not here for the snakes to have learnt to fear them, and for another, mongoose don't actively prey on snakes, but are capable of defending against them.

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

^ Fook, mate...For a moment I thought you were recommending drinking a glass each day...

^^
Another point. Vaguely recall there being an island somewhere that was overrun with a particular species of snake, so a shit load of mongooses....erm, mongeese.....err...a mongoose and a load of others were released into the wild to combat them. But it turned out that the snakes were nocturnal and the mongoose was diurnal.