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Re: Strawberries, birds and snakes

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Think I'll do my gardening in metal boots and gloves!!!
thanks
Cathy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nickie A. Shasteen" <nickie@fanninelectric.com>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: Strawberries, birds and snakes


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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> You might also have to put hardware cloth with very tiny holes around your
> garden if you don't want snakes there.  Six months ago a copperhead got
> inside my fenced in guinea cage and swallowed a live guinea about 6 weeks
> old.  Now we put smaller holes hardware around the new cage that is 3 feet
> off the ground.
>
> My Great Danes have been bitten by a copperheads.  "They say" dogs survive
> these bites ... "unless" there is bacteria on the fangs ... the poison in
> the fangs just makes them swell up a bit, but it goes away ... except the
> one time years ago Goliath, Sr. was bit by THE one with bacteria.  He
nearly
> died before we finally took him to the vet just in the nick of time!
After
> that HE killed snakes! (and skunks! Yuk!!!)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <CynMob@aol.com>
> To: <sqft@listbot.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 2:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Strawberries, birds and snakes
>
>
> > Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> >
> > Dogs and snakes -- NOT a guarantee that you won't get snakes.  I just
had
> one
> > of my greyhounds bit last month by a rattlesnake.
> > It's worth spending money to figure out how to keep them out and I'd
> welcome
> > any suggestions.  I think the answer's going to be concrete block walls.
> > Treatment for snake bite is expensive -- one vial of antivenom is almost
> 500
> > bucks, and you administer one vial per 50 lbs of dog.
> > Cyn
> >
> >
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