There is one spot my wife won't mow, weed wack or go near. where she chopped up a little snake last year. He was in pieces but there he was all over the yard. I saw one at the race track that looked like a tow strap dropped on the road, it was as big as my arm and so long when I drove up to it there was snake on both sides of my golf cart and he was in s shapes moving! There are no ground squirrels now though.