Rubber Snakes and Roosters - Thank you Gatherites

Here is Sharon's Answer to all your wonderful comm fileId:3096224743895300;size:inter;

ents about getting rid of her nuisance roosters.

Many suggestions have come in regarding the rooster problem at my house. I really hate to shoot them, I'm not the shooting kind of person, nor does my husband want to do that. Even if I COULD catch them, cooking them is out of the question. These are mean old birds and probably tough as rubber if I COULD cook them.

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and placing them around the flower gardens and trees.

I took yesterday off from work and went to buy some rubber snakes. One man swore they work, as he uses them in his garden for the same problem. I thought, "Boy, how simple is this?"

I went to several stores yesterday looking for rubber snakes. Even Wal-Mart didn't have any. I spent the whole afternoon running all over looking for these "snakes." I have to say, people really look at you funny when you ask for them. I guess because I didn't have a kid with me, they wondered what I wanted them for. Some asked why I wanted them. I got tired of being asked WHY I wanted the snakes so I started making up some things. Like I told one, I was going to play a trick on my hubby and make him a snake sandwich. I really got some odd looks with some of the remarks I made.

I finally found this shop that had all kinds of weird things. They didn't have rubber snakes, but they had wooden snakes.

They look real. Some have tongues sticking out of their mouths. One looks like a Cobra.

Meanwhile, while I was out looking for the snakes, hubby was re-doing the flower gardens with new borders. He ran out and got new mulch, so by the time I spent the whole afternoon running from store to store, he got all the borders finished.

I placed the snakes all over the place, then I waited. Waited for those suckers to fly down from the trees and see what they'd do. It's so hot here, the roosters won't even come out of the trees until late in the day, so it was almost supper time when they all three flew out of the trees. Naturally, they ran for the flower garden. The black rooster saw the snake right where he's always digging in the garden, and he raised his silly head and let out a cock-a-doodle-doo. The other two white roosters came running over to him, one saw the snake and backed off. I stood still and kept watching, thinking, "Gee, this really works."

They ran to another bush they tear up, and another snake was there in a different position. Again, the black rooster roared out a cock-a-doodle-doo. The other two ran up to him, and I guess the black one got mad, so he chased the other two around the yard.

Lord, was I happy. I thought, gee, maybe they'll kill each other fighting over the snakes being in the flower beds.

Then they ran to my dad's tree. That's the one I really watch constantly when I'm home. Again, a snake was half coiled, with it's head sticking near the edge of the border. This black rooster must be the leader because he's always the first one to run. He ran up, saw that snake, and I think he got real mad that time. He did what I call a "chicken dance." Started stomping his feet on the grass, roaring out one cock-a-doodle-doo after another and kept circling the tree. But he never touched the mulch. None of them did.

The person who told me to put the snakes out, told me to reposition them every couple of days. So now I have a yard full of wooden snakes and mornings, I will move them around.

I thought to myself this morning......"I've GOT to get a life!"

Sharon