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[denizaksulu]

Make a boundary around the yard with miniture Turkish flags, That will keep these sneaky snakes away.

Come to think of it… if you use "TRNC" flags there's no way snakes can enter a non-entity!

It must have been a mirage I saw when I witnessed you on Northern soil.

[tessintrnc]

Let's see a ban on poison in Cyprus and let nature do the work it was intended to do.

Absolutely - but the chameleons main enemy is cats, because they move so slowly. I wonder how many rat eating snakes die of poisoning? I don't suppose we will ever know.................

We don't deserve this bloody planet do we?
Tess

[denizaksulu]

I actually like snakes - very much. I had to stop my car last year when a long black snake crossed the road, and I have also stopped the car for a chameleon, but they are SO slow........... I ended up picking it up, it really hissed at me - but was lovely and warm and it started to change colour even in those few seconds - amazing creatures!!!
Tess

The last time I ever saw a chameleon was in Kyrenia, 1956. Near the old Colonial stly Hospital. Never saw any again. You are indeed lucky Tess.
Did you see it in Kyrenia, because they love the greenery.

[denizaksulu]

In Cyprus it is called a 'Fina'. It is about a meter long and thick and has a very short thin tail. I don't think it is the same as an Adder but more like a Viper.
The following is from a book teaching school kids about the Cyprus snakes.

Nice collage there Kafenes. They look pretty.............

[kafenes]

In Cyprus it is called a 'Fina'. It is about a meter long and thick and has a very short thin tail. I don't think it is the same as an Adder but more like a Viper.

This viper is also called gufi in Cyprus

Iceman, 'Goufi' in Cypriot also means 'Deaf'. I don't know which word came first. Probably from 'Deaf as a snake'.

[purdey]

We have a huge one next door to our house. My daughter calls it "nodding donkey".Always in the same place year after year.Anyone know how long they live ?
Re: poison, I know of a poison that turns white when mixed with water, looks like milk, this seems to be widely used in some villages. One year these villages are overun with cat's the next year they are gone...

[kafenes]

In Cyprus it is called a 'Fina'. It is about a meter long and thick and has a very short thin tail. I don't think it is the same as an Adder but more like a Viper.
The following is from a book teaching school kids about the Cyprus snakes.

Nice collage there Kafenes. They look pretty.............

These are a few extracts from a book put together by George from the reptile park for school children. He is well known as Snake George.

[denizaksulu]

In Cyprus it is called a 'Fina'. It is about a meter long and thick and has a very short thin tail. I don't think it is the same as an Adder but more like a Viper.
The following is from a book teaching school kids about the Cyprus snakes.

Nice collage there Kafenes. They look pretty.............

These are a few extracts from a book put together by George from the reptile park for school children. He is well known as Snake George.

I gathered that. A good idea. Should be published in the North too.

[GorillaGal]

i didn't read this whole thread, so i don't know if this one came up, but you can try mothballs. i know rats/mice don't like mothballs, it MIGHT work for snakes as well. if they are the kinds of snakes that like to eat rats and mice, at least there would be less rats and mice around, which in turn would mean less snakes.

[iceman]

In Cyprus it is called a 'Fina'. It is about a meter long and thick and has a very short thin tail. I don't think it is the same as an Adder but more like a Viper.

This viper is also called gufi in Cyprus

Iceman, 'Goufi' in Cypriot also means 'Deaf'. I don't know which word came first. Probably from 'Deaf as a snake'.

now that you mention the meaning of the word...in Turkish the snake is also known as sagir yilan (deaf snake)
I the willages they also call it dagarcik yilani (dagarcik is the traditional bag made of sheep skin carried by shepherds)