I don't have any ideas but I'm really sorry to hear you lost your dogs. Hopefully none come in my yard or my dog would be chasing it.

So sorry about losing your dogs, it is like losing one of the family I don't live on property so I don't have that problem but I would keep them inside during the day in the months when the snakes are around and take them for a couple of walks on a leash for exercise. They have been advising to keep your dogs inside in this hot weather.

We have those electric repellers and since then no snakes. There had only been one sighting of a python a few weeks before we got the repellers so it may be coincidence or they may work. We live on a quarter acre block that backs onto a nature reserve. The snake was on our back stairs. I have a MASSIVE phobia of snakes after being bitten by an eastern brown as a child, so there's no way in hell I wanted to take any chances.

The ones we got were from Sureguard and cost about $50 or so each. We set four of them up around our pool yard out the back. The front yard is mainly concrete and the electronic repellers don't do well with big expanses of concrete according to the instructions they come with.

Sorry to hear about the dogs. We put in a couple of solar powered snake repellers. Living near Nudgee wetlands we usually get one every six to eight weeks or so. Repellers in for about 9 months and only one small tree snake and I think he came in from over the shed side where there are no repellers. I grew up in Nth Qld and have a snake phobia after a couple of close encounters with Taipans so I keep the lawn mowed and the gardens tidy to eliminate hiding spots.

I have no idea however I just wanted to say how sorry I am about your dogs. We had a close call with a tick recently and that was harrowing enough. when something like that happens you realize how much they are actually a part of the family.

Sorry to hear about your dog, Haven't used the snake repellers personally but a work mate has and believes they are working as he hasn't had any snakes in his yard since setting them up, also try and find some injectable vitamin c usually sold at rural stores has worked a treat on our dogs when bitten by snakes and ticks, I heard of the injections from a vet at moree, not 100% what the injections do but it gives you more time to get to a vet.

I live in suburbia in S.A and we have stacks of brown snakes. My cat has been bit once, the other time she ate 1 and managed to come out of the ordeal unscathed! I lost another cat 2 yrs ago to a brown snake & I'm petrified.

See if you have a local snake catcher in your area & perhaps like their Facebook page if they have 1 and if you are on Facebook. I've done that & they are actually pretty helpful. They say the repellents as in the vibration type 1's are a load of hogwash, the vibrations do nothing (apparently). They tried to get me to get some other spray repellent that they do, I didn't end up getting it done as it was expensive & I honestly wouldn't know if it was legit (could just be some water for all I know).

The snake guy that came out told me to just keep the yard tidy in the warmer months, don't leave water around (kinda hard with a pool!) & be mindful that they are out there. As for your pets (sorry to hear about the loss of your animals), you can't stop them from chasing things that move, unfortunately.