The smell emitted by the plant is irritating for mice and they try to avoid them. Poo from bobcats, snakes, and cats are also effective mice deterrent because of their distinct smell. That smell scares mice away due to their natural fear on their predators. Pet stores have products that contain this unique smell which you can buy to spread over your house to keep mice away.
1) A myth exists that a cucumber smell comes from rattlesnakes. 2) The Tongue Mountain Range is known for harboring rattlesnakes. 3) The only place I have ever smelled random cucumber is the Tongue Mountain Range. Which leads me to believe the tiny minority, that rattlesnakes do in fact give off a cucumber smell.
It is a fact that other nonvenomous snakes vibrate their tail and it can sound like a rattlesnake if done so in dry leaves. But the true intention of the snake may not be to imitate the rattlesnake but just an act of aggresssion or nervousness.n the topic of Old World snakes that do shake their tails when agitated, I recently traded off a very large female white lipped pit viper to our very own Courtney and she would shake her tail when she was ticked. She didn't do it when feeding, only apparently when she felt threatened.