SNAKE PROOF YOUR BACKYARD

In my opinion there is no prettier place to live than in the desert, but you do have to take precautions especially if you have little ones or little dogs running around.
I’ve been asking my husband for a few months now if we could please put some wire with smaller holes than what we have on our view fence.  Why? Because we have 2 small dogs and 2 smaller dogs who regularly visit and I am afraid of snakes both for the dogs and for me!!  He always responds with the same “the 1-inch wire we have is fine, no snake can get through that.”
I came home Friday and heard…you guessed it… “OK, you win, we’ll get smaller wire, I just fought with a rattlesnake in the backyard!” Now to be perfectly honest it is the first snake we’d seen in the 7 years we’ve lived here but that is one too many for me!
And so we spent the weekend snake-proofing our backyard.  Off we went to the local Home Depot for ½ inch wire and after we cleaned them out we headed to Lowes and finished our 10 roll purchase.  A container of Snake Away to put around the outside perimeter of the fence and we were ready to get to work.
Sunscreen in hand to greet the 105 degree day, my husband on one side of the fence and me on the other, I thought how long can this take?  After all it’s only 10 rolls of wire, right? WRONG! We started at 8AM and 150 feet of wire and 500 zip ties later finished at 7PM. Of course that accounts for  hourly breaks in the pool to cool off.
Now as I stand back and look at our handiwork, I know its all worth it. No snake will be getting in our yard and the dogs AND humans will be safe.
But the Advil and the hot tub are calling my name!

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