i m deathly afraid of snakes , but not bugs.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty five times indepenently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. Legless lizards resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae). Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, and on most smaller land masses; exceptions include some large islands, such as Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, the Hawaiian archipelago, and the islands of New Zealand, and many small islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific oceans.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am terrified of snakes.  Do you know any way to keep them out of my yard?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You could move to Hawaii, Iceland, New Zealand or Antarctica!  Those are some of the only places on earth that do not naturally have snakes."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Really - Hawaii doesn't have any native snakes?  That's interesting.  What are the most common snakes?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Copperhead and Garter snakes are common where I live. I am friendly to them because they are carnivorous and eat rodents around my property!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have a small dog, I'd be afraid they would hurt her!  Is there anything that I can do to keep them out of my yard?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Garter snakes are not poisonous, but if you want to avoid bites, keep your yard and garden clear of small spaces for them to hide, and low plants."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Would getting a cat help keep the snake population down as well?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Not all cats make good snake repellents. Most snakes are harmless, but the best action you can take is limiting their places to hide around your house."}]