<human>: So I have an irrational fear of snakes. Just something about them freaks the hell out of me. A couple years back I saw a garter snake in my yard. Startled me, because I had just stepped out of my front door and there it was about three feet in front of me. Had I not noticed it and walked around I would have stepped right on the damn thing.

Fast forward to last summer. My wife and I start noticing more snakes around the yard throughout the summer. We tend try to ignore them because, you know, the worst a garter snake can really do is bite you and you get an infection from not treating the wound properly.

Now it's a few days from spring and things are warming up. Yesterday I look out my front winding and there's another freaking snake. I'm watching it for a moment and see it slither on into a hole in the ground near front stoop. That was pretty disconcerting. Later on in the day I come home from some grocery shopping. I step out of my car and there is not one, but two smaller snakes in my garage. So I'm pretty sure there is a den of snakes somewhere under my property. 

Anyone have any ideas to efficiently get rid of snakes. I'm not terribly fond of killing them, so non lethal would be preferable. The best idea I've come up with is scoping them up with my snow shovel and dumping them in my garbage can and sending them to where ever the hell my garbage goes to. Of course I'll probably wind up with an irrational fear of garbage cans because of it.

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<bot>: version: I, a grown man who is afraid of snakes, is reasonably sure there is a snakes den somewhere in his yard. Anyone have any recommendations on getting rid of them?