Please choose the correct ending to complete the given sentence: Home and Garden: [header] How to keep snakes away [title] Keep your yard free of clutter. [step] Snakes are ambush predators, meaning they like to attack their prey from dark hiding places. As such, clutter is essentially an open invitation to snakes, giving them perfect hiding spots.

Ending1: Since snakes may hide in unexpected situations, it's important that you keep your home and yard free of clutter. [substeps] Arrange your yard to be the ideal site for snakes in the snowy winter. Ending2: But it also provides excellent hiding places for animals, insects, and vermin, so any animal that visits the area should be avoided. [substeps] If possible, have a large trap for your snake to hide in instead of an obstacle so it doesn't have to reach or fetch something. Ending3: [substeps] Rats are a regular occurrence in the flesh, so there's no need to keep lots of junk and garbage around during the day. Mail trays, newspapers, and magazines are good things to keep from attracting snakes, however. Ending4: Piles of leaves, compost piles, straw mulch, wood chip mulch, stacks of firewood, and piles of cut grass are all comfortable places that snakes like to hide in, so these should be removed from your yard. [substeps] Instead of wood mulch, consider crushed stone.

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