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First, the local squirrels chewed up the wiring in my husbands truck. But the last straw was when they built a nest near his gas tank and chewed thru the line. Why squirrels would do that is a mystery to me. $1500 later, he’s mad. Our next door neighbor sympatically offer my husband his creature catcher, so it’s set and within the first hour, the first squirrel is trapped. I look out and the prisoned squirrel has 2 of his buddies climbing all over the cage, looking to help him escape. My husband runs out and our neighbor joins him and they decided they’re going to need to build holding cage to put all these squirrels until they can transfer them to a local park. My husband loads up the frantic squirrel and dropped him off a couple miles up the road at a park. Of course, being a woman, I gave them a sob story about tearing a squirrel family apart, poor guy not seeing is friends again, not knowing where to eat or drink, just starting all over. My husband told me later that’s when he started feeling bad about the plan. The rest of the story is, about 4 doors down is the “Squirrel Lady.” She rehabs squirrels. So every night, squirrels going to dinner via the power line in our backyard, tease our dog mercilessly. They go down and back up the line with a big nut in their mouth. I also reminded him of what might happen when she realizes her squirrels were disappearing. So between my sob stories and the realization the “Squirrel Lady” might not be too happy, we started looking for other avenues. So we got these lifelike snakes and attached them to the tree and driveway where my husband parks. They are so life like the Dog Walker lady, who we soon found out was terrified of snake, knocked on the door one day and asked if we were aware of the snakes in the driveway. I told her the story and she seemed relieved. She even stopped by later, as her husband wanted to know if the snakes worked. Well, that’s the question. We do have fewer squirrels. But not sure if it’s the snakes or the squirrels are still traumatized from seeing their buddy carried off.

We use these to keep critters from under our deck and out of our boat in storage. Works so far.

These snakes still shock me in the garden where they are wrapped around tree limbs. And they are effective at keeping down the squirrels visits.

I got these because I saw some reviews saying that they work to repel cats. Well not the cats in my neighborhood! My neighbor feeds feral cats and they use my front door area as a litter box so I placed the snakes at the front door to scare them off. The cats HUNTED them and carried them off! I have found my poor rubber snakes belly up on the sidewalk and as far away as the driveway. HUMAN visitors were horrified (they even surprised me once and I'm the one who out them there 😆) but the cats just saw more prey. So if you're getting these to scare some cats away I suggest choosing a different item, but if you want to scare some HUMANS these will work perfectly!

They look real!