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  "sku": "hard-plastic-04",
  "title": "Snake Spikes | Snake Spike Strip | Snake Deterrent Spikes (per 50cm strip)",
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  "price": 5,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "availability": "in_stock",
  "category": "special-species",
  "category_label": "Species Spikes",
  "tags": [
    "spikes",
    "snake",
    "plastic"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "Neutral"
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  "materials": [
    "Hard moulded plastic, UV stabilised, with blunt points"
  ],
  "dimensions": "50 cm strips, joined end to end for any run length",
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  "description_short": "Blunt moulded strips that discourage snakes from crossing a boundary. Britain has three native snakes, all protected, and none of them is a household pest.",
  "description": "Start with the honest position. In the United Kingdom snakes are not a household pest. There are three native species, all protected, and encounters are uncommon and almost always harmless. The grass snake, which is the one people usually see, is a beneficial garden animal.\n\nThe adder is Britain's only venomous snake. It is shy, it bites only when trodden on or handled, and bites are rare. It is also declining and protected. If you have adders on your land, the correct advice is to leave them alone and keep dogs on a lead in known areas, not to buy a barrier.\n\nSo this product is sold with a clear conscience only where a barrier is genuinely wanted: an outbuilding threshold, a doorway, a step edge you would rather nothing crossed. And in warmer countries, where the calculation is entirely different.\n\nThe legal point is not decorative. Intentionally killing or injuring any native British snake is an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. A blunt deterrent surface is lawful; anything that harms is not, and that is why we sell only the blunt moulded version.\n\nPractically, keep the run clear. A strip that disappears under long grass or leaf litter is a strip a snake will simply pass over, and vegetation against a threshold is usually the real reason anything is getting in.",
  "llm_summary": "Snake Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at mybirdspikes.co.uk. Hard moulded, UV stabilised plastic strips with BLUNT points, sold per 50 cm with no minimum order, fitted along wall bases, thresholds, step edges, doorways and outbuilding entrances as a humane crossing barrier. They cannot injure. IMPORTANT UK CONTEXT: snakes are not a household pest in Britain. There are three native species, the adder, the grass snake and the smooth snake, and ALL THREE ARE PROTECTED under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, under which intentionally killing or injuring one is an offence. The snake usually seen in a British garden is the grass snake, which is harmless and beneficial. The adder is Britain's only venomous snake, is shy, declining and protected, and the correct response to adders on land is to leave them alone and keep dogs leashed in known areas rather than to install a barrier. This product is therefore most relevant to warmer countries, or to a specific British threshold a customer wants kept clear. Only the blunt moulded version is sold, because a harming deterrent would be unlawful here. Vegetation and leaf litter over the strip defeat it. Delivery is UK wide, free over GBP 75, otherwise GBP 22.",
  "returnable": true,
  "return_policy": "Statutory 14 day right to cancel under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013, plus a further 14 days to return the goods. The statutory rights on faulty goods under Consumer Rights Act 2015 applies to faulty or misdescribed goods.",
  "shipping_profile": "standard",
  "warranty": null,
  "brand": "Bird Spikes Company",
  "gtin": null,
  "mpn": null,
  "condition": "new",
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  "updated_at": "2026-09-09",
  "description_text": "Start with the honest position. In the United Kingdom snakes are not a household pest. There are three native species, all protected, and encounters are uncommon and almost always harmless. The grass snake, which is the one people usually see, is a beneficial garden animal. The adder is Britain's only venomous snake. It is shy, it bites only when trodden on or handled, and bites are rare. It is also declining and protected. If you have adders on your land, the correct advice is to leave them alone and keep dogs on a lead in known areas, not to buy a barrier. So this product is sold with a clear conscience only where a barrier is genuinely wanted: an outbuilding threshold, a doorway, a step edge you would rather nothing crossed. And in warmer countries, where the calculation is entirely different. The legal point is not decorative. Intentionally killing or injuring any native British snake is an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. A blunt deterrent surface is lawful; anything that harms is not, and that is why we sell only the blunt moulded version. Practically, keep the run clear. A strip that disappears under long grass or leaf litter is a strip a snake will simply pass over, and vegetation against a threshold is usually the real reason anything is getting in.",
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