Thread: What snake?

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

I love snakes, think they are beautiful and avoid trying to harm them at all cost

Same goes for me. If I can get to one before my dog then I'll capture/release as it's not the snakes fault to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Quite easy to get them alive as long as you have a long enough stick. Pin down the snake behind the head. Keep the pressure on until you can get the index finger and the thumb above and below the back of the head and Bob's yer uncle. Once outside of your property just toss it away. It won't come back at you.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Same goes for me. I

Its not just snakes it's most creatures. We are occupying their territory so in my opinion we owe it to them to try to minimise our impact on them or given the amount of damage we've caused to their environment i try my best to at least give them three things; 1) don't use herbicides or pesticides 2) try to leave areas in my land where they can live i.e the weaver birds which love the elephant grass to make their nests, i leave a chunk of it for them and love watching them rip strips off. 3) try to help / save those unfortunate animals which fall foul of our ignorance or our environment i.e. snakes.

Want to know what i deem a test? - having snakes, scorpions and praying mantis because at the top of the food chain they are only there if the little stuff can exist for them to eat.

^ dinosaurs came about because of soft fuckers like you

Originally Posted by Dillinger

^ dinosaurs came about because of soft fuckers like you

two words........................ food volume fuker think crocodile taste but tonnage. Rich wankers with fillet this and intercostal of that got no idea what feeding a pre-cambrian family is about - twat

Is that an acronym?

someone is fiddlin ear, is that loose Eye Thai faux Oirish wanker still twiddlin dials in TD

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Same goes for me. If I can get to one before my dog then I'll capture/release as it's not the snakes fault to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Quite easy to get them alive as long as you have a long enough stick. Pin down the snake behind the head. Keep the pressure on until you can get the index finger and the thumb above and below the back of the head and Bob's yer uncle. Once outside of your property just toss it away. It won't come back at you.

Yes, agree completely, no need to kill at all. The vast majority of snakes in Thailand are harmless (although my daughter still managed to stand on a venomous one).

If you're not comfortable handling one, snake tongs / hooks are the way to go. There are loads on Lazada.

Originally Posted by Mendip

If you're not comfortable handling one, snake tongs / hooks are the way to go

...disagree: a machete/large club are the way to go...amateurs handling snakes out of respect and sympathy is a recipe for disaster...

Originally Posted by hallelujah

It doesn't take an expert to pick up a snake and dump it elsewhere with effective equipment.

...further disagreement, unless the effective equipment includes a disposable gardener...

Tom, I wouldn't tackle a cobra or krait, but almost all snakes are harmless. I see no need to kill them. See my pics in the 'Wildlife through your lense thread'. That tree snake has lived by our chickens for a couple of years and takes care of the mice - why kill it? Or even remove it for that matter.

Even the pit vipers like the one that bit my daughter are slow moving and easy to pick up with a snake hook - don't even need tongs for them.

Originally Posted by Mendip

but almost all snakes are harmless

...unpersuasive: kill all serpents that dare to trespass on what homo sapiens has taken from them...Darwin...

Originally Posted by Mendip

Tom, I wouldn't tackle a cobra or krait, but almost all snakes are harmless.

Agreed. The majority of snake bites are 'dry bites' whereby the snake doesn't want to waste its venom on something it can't eat. It's a defensive bite to ward off an assailant. At the hospital they will still have to treat with antivenom to be sure to be sure.

Originally Posted by tomcat

kill all serpents that dare to trespass on what homo sapiens has taken from them...Darwin...

Don't be silly...... Pragmatic....

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Don't be silly...... Pragmatic....

...soon to be Stumpy Pragmatic after your grossly swollen hand is amputated...

Originally Posted by tomcat

soon to be Stumpy Pragmatic after your grossly swollen hand is amputated...

Grow some Tom. Practice makes perfect.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Grow some Tom. Practice makes perfect.

...common sense already in place...practice makes Stumpy...

Stay in the city Tom. No worries re snakes there. However, beware of the 2 legged serpents. Some are far more deadly than the slithery ones we have in the sticks.

Originally Posted by Mendip

almost all snakes are harmless. I see no need to kill them

Actually, try not to kill them unless you fancy a plentiful supply of rat meat.

Originally Posted by Norton

Stay in the city Tom

...sound advice, well received...

The trousersnake is the most dangerous to comely womankind and, to a lesser extent, the harbourer, mankind.

It is beyond disproof that zipperupit flacidus is in a category, genus on it's own.

And an alarm scale all its own.

Sa Kaeo 14 April 2020

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Dunno, but I’d run from it. Looks evil!

I'll go for a 'Common Rat Snake'.

I think that it's probably a keeled rat snake. They can get big, up to well over 3 metres, but harmless all the same.