 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
| HomeDiscussion GroupsGeneral TopicsCat AnecdotesHealth and BehaviorRescue CatKB.com Contact UsLink To UsSearch & Site Map |
Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / December 2005How do cats behave with Spiders and Snakes?
Hello friends, I am moving to Arizona and want to hear your experiences on the following: 1. How to pest-proof the home against black widows, scorpions and snakes. 2. How do cats react when they see these creatures? Attack? Run? 3. Any other precautions/advice. Many thanks for your help. al > Hello friends, I am moving to Arizona and want to hear your experiences on > the following: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Many thanks for your help. > al No, cats don't run from snakes or spiders. It's just prey to them. It's up to you to protect them from the poisonous ones; they don't know the difference. > Hello friends, I am moving to Arizona and want to hear your experiences on > the following: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Many thanks for your help. > al You can spread sulpher around outside of house to keep snakes out. I'd spray inside of house, but along exterior walls at baseboard...sorta keep them under the house...and then bomb under the house. I have no clue about scorpions. >> Hello friends, I am moving to Arizona and want to hear your experiences on >> the following: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >I have no clue about scorpions. In my part of the desert, scorpions tend to live under things. Be careful with sprays, sometimes they can be worse than the sprayees... Keep your area free of food and habitat for rodents, because they are the snake's buffet. No rodents, snakes will go elsewhere. Claude > Be careful with sprays, sometimes they can be worse than the sprayees... > > Keep your area free of food and habitat for rodents, because > they are the snake's buffet. No rodents, snakes will go elsewhere. > > Claude Good advice. Another thing that will help is to keep your lawn very short and don't offer them shrubbery or other cool, shady places to get next to the house. There's a product called "Snake-Away" that you sprinkle to create a boundary around your yard that (allegedly) snakes won't cross. I don't know whether it works. It smells like mothballs. Incidentally, it might be good for the OP to brush up on identifying poisonous snakes. Sherry Lime works just as well. Snakes won't cross it because it burns their skin. Celeste >> Be careful with sprays, sometimes they can be worse than the sprayees... >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Sherry > Hello friends, I am moving to Arizona and want to hear your experiences on > the following: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Many thanks for your help. > al LOL - brings back some old memories. We used to always keep cats around the farm to help with the rattlesnake population. Our cats would corner a snake and then sit back and yowl loud enough to hear halfway across the farm. You got to a point where you recognized that distinctive yowl and grabbed the shovel or hoe to go decapitate a rattlesnake. We had one cat whose name I can't remember that was a long haired smoky gray cat, she was the best rattlesnake hunter we ever had. > > Hello friends, I am moving to Arizona and want to hear your experiences on > > the following: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > one cat whose name I can't remember that was a long haired smoky gray > cat, she was the best rattlesnake hunter we ever had. Funny They(the cats) never got bit. thanks, Tony D. Suddenly, without warning, nospam exclaimed (01-Dec-05 4:02 AM): > Hello friends, I am moving to Arizona and want to hear your experiences on > the following: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Many thanks for your help. > al Meep has lived in Australia, where everything is either poisonous or pointy. If she came across any snakes, she hasn't told us about them, but she's never been bit by the myriad of poisonous spiders, like redbacks, the Aussie black widow. I'd heard that cats are much more sensible about snakes than dogs are, and rarely get bit even if they do have an encounter. There's really no way to completely pest-proof your home, but there are some types of Black Flag that you can spray around door and window frames, and it's supposed to kill anything that crosses for a couple of weeks. This worked well to keep the Aussie ants (pernicious things!) out, and seemed to keep the arachnid population down as well. Meep has a rule about spiders: If they're under about an inch and a half, they're a toy. If they're bigger than that (some were MUCH bigger), they're simply entertainment - something to watch, but not touch. Which is how we knew when there was a big'un in the house, she'd be intensely staring in some corner, or under the fridge. Shouldn't use past tense though, there's some suprisingly good sized spiders that wander through our house here on a regular basis as well. As another poster said, keep the rodents away and the snakes shouldn't bother you. Just never stick a limb into a dark space - woodpile, dark shelf, shoes, etc - without checking it for creepycrawlies first. jmc
|
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.