You can purchase expanding foam at any hardware store.
Piles of boards or debris. Mounds of branches, sticks, and leaves. Piles of rocks. Old and unattended vehicles or boats.
Pick up outdoor pet food every night. Securely close trash-can lids so rodents won’t eat your garbage. Keep your compost in a sealed container, not lying on the ground.
If your property contains a large field, mow the field as well. Long grass is an inviting habitat for rattlers, and if there’s high grass anywhere near your yard, rattlers may come crawling in.
If you have made your yard as unfavorable to a snake as possible, the snake should leave if given the chance.
Snake-proof fencing isn’t cheap. A single 50 ft (15 m) roll can cost about $60 USD. However, this cost is worth it to assure your personal safety and peace of mind.
This could be a children’s play area, the patch of grass where you walk your pet, or the section of yard nearest your back door.
When you’re digging, make sure that the trench is uniformly deep along its entire length.
If there are any gaps between the bottom of your installed fence and the ground, rattlers will crawl right in.
Rattlesnakes won’t be able to shimmy up the fence if it’s leaning outward at this angle.
If you need to install support stakes to hold up the fence, place them on the inside of the fence. If they’re on the outside, rattlers can crawl up them.
If there are only 1 or 2 lightly damaged sections of fence, you can patch them up with slick packaging tape. You can also maintain the fence by cutting down any new growth on encroaching tree branches or bushes.
