Thread: Cobra invasion !

Last year at this time, we spotted the first cobra in our garden and
for the 2 month following I killed a cobra weekly, some weeks twice.
I don't lie when I say I have must killed more than 10 of them in competition with our dogs who prolly took another 5.

They totally disappeared around Songkran and I wrote it off as an effect of the heavy flooding we had that year. I thought that brought the snakes down from the mountains not far away from here.

So 5 days ago it was time again. I heard the dogs bark and it was not the normal barking telling that there was people or another dog near the gate.
No, it was the snake-barking, a very loud and deep voiced bark.
I went out on the balcony to see our dogs attacking something in the bushes near the house. When I got down and out, I found this youngster cobra on the driveway:



I whacked him lightly over the head to see if he wanted to play, but no game. He had already lost blood from the dogs bite so I helped him on his way to greener pastures.

Today there was another one right outside of our kitchen stair and this time
it was a bit bigger, about a meter long :


To the right is Nickie, really pissed that he is not allowed to play
anymore.



Nickie, wont give up even though I already have killed it:



The other 2 team members, Nong:


and Sprite:


Sprite is extremely quick and jumps like a rabbit. She use to
go for the head of the snakes while the other two attacks the body or tail at the same time

None of them has got bitten sofar which I find very surprising.

Thanks hillbilly, I have 2 good hospitals within 1km range and they have serum for the monocellate cobra.
The vet station is even closer and I will pop in there tomorrow and ask for advice should one of the dogs get bitten.

I'd rather see that I didn't get the cobra's here in the first place though.
And I'm more worried about the dogs than about myself. The cobra can not reach out very far when attacking so it is not difficult to stab them in the head with a long pole. The dogs however do not keep distance, actually it is a fight between me and them on who is gonna kill the snake.

^will keep that in mind, could have had two over the last 10 days.

E. G.

Originally Posted by lom

None of them has got bitten sofar which I find very surprising.

This could be complete and utter nonsense - can't even remember where I heard it - but I was told that dogs are immune to snake venom for some reason. Perhaps not immune per se but it's not fatal.

One thing I do know for fact though is that the baby cobras are more deadly than the adults - poor wee things haven't learnt to control their venom yet so when they bite inject the whole lot in one go

Spent the evening hours at BiL's house have a couple of Leos. One of the guys wondered off into the orchard to rid himself of extra Leo. Came back in a flash...

Big Cobra, Thia translated into " 2 meters and as big as my forearm". It went off into the brush post haste. Cobras really don't like being around humans I take it, just stamp your foot and they are gone unless cornered.

It really does seem to be Cobra season here in Chantaburi province.


E. G.

We have apparently at least one cobra in the garden. Any advice what to do? We live in Pattaya, Maprachan area.

thakns

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