Dr. T’s Nature Products® Snake-A-Way® Snake Repelling Granules, 4 lb., effectively repel garter snakes, rattlesnakes and other species from areas they are not wanted.  This granular snake repellent is applied around the perimeter of the area you want to protect.

Snake-A-Way® is detected by the snake’s Jacobson’s Organ (auxiliary olfactory sense organ) and disrupts its sensory reception. This disorientation causes the snake to slither away unharmed, in search of fresh air.

Wearing gloves, apply the granules to the perimeter of the area that is to be protected. Place bands 4-5 inches wide to repel garter snakes, 8-12 inches wide to repel rattlers. For yard application, sprinkle Snake-A-Way® throughout the area within the perimeter. When odor becomes faint, simply reapply.

This product contains naphthalene (7%) and sulfur (28%) as its active ingredients. The only EPA-registered granular snake repellent product, Snake-A-Way® has greater than 91% repellency rate for rattlesnakes and garter snakes. The efficacy of this product makes it an indispensable resource in keeping your property free of snakes!  Environmentally responsible, this product is safe when used as directed.

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What It Controls

Dr. T’s Nature Products® Snake-A-Way® Snake Repelling Granules is a granular snake repellent that is applied around the perimeter of the area to be protected.

How It Works

When snakes come in contact with Snake-A-Way®, they are deterred because it interferes with their sensory reception system. The snake flicks its tongue and places the forks of his tongue into the roof of his mouth where the Jacobson's organ is located. Scents and vapor molecules are picked up by the snake giving it very specific details of what is around it. Snake-A-Way® temporarily shuts this sensory reception down, leaving the snake disoriented, causing the snake to leave the area to seek fresh air. 

Residual protection lasts for 2 to 3 months and should be reapplied after heavy rain.

All About Snakes...

General Snake Facts

Snakes are classified as vertebrates since their flexible bodies have far more vertebrates (up to 400) than humans (just 32).  This allows snakes to have far greater elasticity, which they use to devour large animals many times their width. 

Snake’s eyes are protected by clear scales, which are needed since their eyes always remain open.  Additional features of a snake are it’s forked tongue, and lack of external ears.

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Snake Reproduction

Snakes mate in the spring as the weather warms; however, snakes in warmer climates can reproduce year-round. 

Depending on the species, female snakes will either have live young, keeping the eggs inside of her body until they hatch, or she will deposit the eggs in a nest she has constructed and sit on top of them, protecting them until they hatch.

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Snake Habitat

There are about 250 species of snakes in the United States and Canada.  Only two groups are venomous - the coral snake and the pit vipers. 

The pit vipers include the cottonmouth/water moccasin, copperhead, and rattlesnake.  There are three ways to distinguish between a pit viper and a nonpoisonous snake in the United States:

• Pit Vipers have a deep pit on each side of the

  

  head, midway between the eye and nostril.  This does not exist on nonpoisonous snakes.
• Poisonous snakes have a scale pattern on the under side that goes all the way across the width of the tail in a row.  Nonpoisonous snakes have a more broken pattern.
• The pupil of the viper is egg shaped.  A nonpoisonous snake has an eye shape that is round.

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Snake Diet

Most snakes will eat a variety of foods including insects, rodents, birds, slugs, and other reptiles such as frogs and lizards. 

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Other - Predators of Snakes

Its reptilian enemies include larger snakes and crocodiles.  Although birds are part of snakes' diet, larger birds put snakes on their own menu.  Other meat-eating animals will also prey on snakes.

Snake Control Options

Snake Repellents

Snakes use their tongue to help them smell.  Gaseous particles from the snake repellent are picked up by the snake's tongue and inserted into the two-holed organ, called the Jacobson's Organ, at the roof of the snake's mouth.  Located in the roof of the mouth, this organ is very important to a snake's ability to sense their surroundings and snake repellents work by confusing this keen sense of smell. 

Dr. T’s Nature Products® Snake-A-Way® Snake Repelling Granules is the only EPA registered snake repellent product on the market.  In order for a product to be EPA registered, third party testing must be submitted to support every claim made on the label.  Snake-A-Way® is a very effective odor repellent to snakes.

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Prevention

Outside the Home:

• Keep woodpiles away from your home and other buildings on your property. Raise wood piles are a foot or more off the ground
• Keep grass and weeds trimmed around all buildings
• Keep shrubbery trimmed and limit the thickness of the mulch
• Eliminate leaf piles

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Ask Dr. T...About Snakes and Snake Control

Q:   Is a snake's skin slimy and slippery?

A:  Actually, a snake’s skin is smooth and not at all slimy. 

Q:   How often does a snake shed its skin?

A:  The frequency with which a snake sheds its skin varies by the species and can be anywhere from about every three weeks to once a year.

Q:   What is the largest snake that ever lived?

A:  Well, you would have to go back to prehistoric times to find that snake!  It had a body length of over 40 feet and weighed over a ton.  It is thought that these giant snakes feasted on crocodiles!

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