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What to do with an adder in the garden?
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It's a youngster of around 8 inches. Looks like a female from what I've read. It didn't look too keen to get away when I discovered it, that's why I put a box on top of it.
Due to a cost cutting exercise a year or so ago we haven't got a pest control department at the council any more :mad:
Will call the RSPCA to see what they say. I really don't want it in the garden. We back onto a field, so it must have come from there. They're not normally seen in this kind of weather, only basking in the sunshine on a warm day.
Oh poor thing, could you be brave enough to scoop it up and chuck it back in the field it came from
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blindmouse wrote: »Oh poor thing, could you be brave enough to scoop it up and chuck it back in the field it came from
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Panic over. Hubby came home and was quite impressed that I'd properly identified it!
He did the spider and glass thing and slid some thick cardboard under the container it was in and released it in some grass on the field. Needless to say we won't be walking the dog that way tonight!
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Glad your ordeal is over!Putting these winter preps here so I don't forget!
Curtain pole installed in the living room
Paint curtain pole
Window quilts for landing window & french door
Add shrink film to the kitchen door & insulate
Insulate front door
Bubble wrap windows & french door
Wash front door curtain
Blind for the bathroom
Find wrist warmers & the wool socks!
Wash heated throws
Wash duvet & wool blankets
Buy vest tops to go under clothes and PJs
Buy nets for bathroom and kitchen
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Oh dear God! What an ordeal! I think if I ever found a snake in my garden that would be it, I'd have to astro turf it from wall to fence just so that nothing would grow and so I could see every part of the garden - that's if I ever went out there again!
Petrified of them in case you wondered!
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All snakes are protected by law from killing and injury under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. If it is trapped or injured the RSPCA will rescue. Adder bites are not potent to cats or dogs by small mammals, although I understand your concerns so worth giving RSPCA a call; also as previous poster said there could be a nest nearby."enough is a feast"...old Buddist proverb0
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OMG - i could not have coped with that - i have seen an adder in the wild and ended up in A&E due to the resulting panic attack, i cant even watch snakes on the TV.Dogs return to eat their vomit, just as fools repeat their foolishness. There is no more hope for a fool than for someone who says, "i am really clever!"0
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All snakes are protected by law from killing and injury under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. If it is trapped or injured the RSPCA will rescue. Adder bites are not potent to cats or dogs by small mammals, although I understand your concerns so worth giving RSPCA a call; also as previous poster said there could be a nest nearby.
Leaving sentimentality aside, not everyone is quite so sanguine about adders. And with good reason.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-107118180 -
omg, I would have been so excited! I have corugated sheets on top of my compost head to try and keep it warm in the hope that we get snakes, wish we had one, glad it's back in the field though so your guineas can calm donwn.0
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Yes and at the bottom of your BBC piece about wildlife hurting man who tried to pick it up......... is "adders haven't killed anyone in the UK for 20 years"Leaving sentimentality aside, not everyone is quite so sanguine about adders. And with good reason.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-10711818
Even idiots who try to pick them up.
V well done to the OP and your OH. Sensible thinking, unlike some of the replies.Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0
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