Are snakes detectable by smell?

No. Snakes, like a lot of reptiles, are covered with some pretty icky bacteria. It’s why you need to carefully wash your hands after handling a snake. And animals with good noses can smell them.

There are dogs that are very good snake hunters.

Snakes have a smell. In the Everglades, my sister uses her GSD to track constrictors.

Garter snakes smell like the dickens!

Thanks, guys – that’s what I figured!

In a word, no. Snakes stink. I always have to wash my hands after handling them.