How to secure your yard against rabbits, gophers and snakes

Sometimes the wildlife around us can really wreck our garden. Rabbits, gophers and rats can slip through the smallest of cracks in fences. This video shows you how to install 1/2" opening galvanized metal hardware cloth as a defense on the perimeter against those pests as well as the snakes that follow them. This video was shot in San Diego, California.
Here is a great link for more info on what to do if you find a snake.
www.humanesociety.org/resourc....
Video by Doug Kalal, Great Gardens Landscape Design
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[@2minutegardener639]

Here is a great link for more info on what to do if you find a snake.
www.humanesociety.org/resources/what-do-about-snakes#:~:text=In%20many%20places%2C%20you%20can,are%20critical%20to%20their%20survival.

[@Jeffindsm]

I was thinking air drop grizzly bears into your town

[@2minutegardener639]

Now that would be a fun video.

[@SunlessComa4614]

Yeah...definitely everyone needs a terrier mix of some sort. Thankfully mine is American Staffy, so she's not out for blood, just to chase them off. We only have garden snakes in Ohio which doesn't matter cause she has zero interest in them anyway, so I definitely wouldn't know what to do with that

[@darlenesimmons9292]

What about rats and mice?

[@2minutegardener639]

I use large rat traps and have gotten more vigilant about removing fruit from the ground. I also recommend sealing all ground access points to make it harder for rats (and snakes) to get in. Rats can climb almost anything so the traps are the best solution.