Show us your snake.

**MeMock** · 22-02-2008, 07:33 AM

Snakes are great for vermin control

**kingwilly** · 22-02-2008, 09:36 AM

^ poor kitty!

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

But given the size of some of the ones of here I'm almost to embarrassed to post a pic of it.

KW is never embarrassed!

**kingwilly** · 22-02-2008, 09:44 AM

deadly bugger this one was!

**DaveRobin** · 23-02-2008, 08:05 AM

Thai believe that if you dream of snakes, love is on its way. Don't tell the missus.

**DrAndy** · 23-02-2008, 08:57 AM

OK Herpetologists (sounds nasty)

what sort of snake is this, please? it was about 1.8m long

in our woodpile until flushed out, beaten up and then BBQ'd

a head shot, as they say

it is prob very common but I can't find it in my book

**Norton** · 23-02-2008, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by DrAndy

it is prob very common but I can't find it in my book

Looks like one of the many subspecies of Kukri.

**DrAndy** · 26-02-2008, 09:18 AM

yes Norton, thanks, it does

but my book says that the longest type is 115cm, this one was 170cm

maybe I should get a bigger book

**The Gentleman Scamp** · 26-02-2008, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

Thai believe that if you dream of snakes, love is on its way. Don't tell the missus.

Must be a phallic thing.

**JoGeAr** · 27-02-2008, 08:49 AM

Python devours family's chihuahua

Wednesday Feb 27 10:00 AEDT

By ninemsn staff
A distraught north Queensland family threw chairs at a 5m python in a fruitless attempt to stop it devouring their pet chihuahua.
The snake stalked the silky terrier-cross late Monday night, eventually settling down to consume the dog on the veranda of Daniel Peric's Kuranda home as his two horrified children watched, The Cairns Post reported.
When snake experts arrived to remove the non-venomous reptile, all that could be seen of the dog was its tail and back legs.
"We'd had the dog about five years, so it was part of the family," Mr Peric said to the newspaper.

The family lost its pet guinea pig and cat to hungry snakes in the last month.
"These pythons used to feed on wallabies but now they feed on cats and dogs in suburbia," Australian Venom Zoo owner Stuart Douglas told The Post.
"This python actively stalked their dog."
"They'd thrown chairs at it to try to stop it, but it had already eaten the animal," he said.
Mr Peric is now frightened snakes will hurt his children, aged five and seven.
"We have ducted air-conditioning. Call it paranoia, but my big fear is that a snake will get in there," he said.

**kingwilly** · 28-02-2008, 07:38 AM

Snake's wallaby meal

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Darren Cleland could not believe his eyes when he saw this monster python on the banks of the Barron River west of Cairns.
The former Cairns councillor was at his rural property at Bilwon last month when he heard a neighbour's dog barking and rushed down to the water's edge to find the snake devouring a full-size wallaby with a joey in its pouch.
He estimated the python was at least 5m long.
"We were more amazed than anything that a python could get its mouth around an animal of that size," he told The Cairns Post last night.
"We've seen a few snakes but never anything this big."
Mr Cleland said the experience was a good lesson for his children to be wary of all snakes.
"We figured if it could eat the wallaby, it could easily eat our five-year-old."

Cairns - Australia | News, Accommodation, Tourism, Attractions, Sports, Events - All about Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

**kingwilly** · 28-02-2008, 07:42 AM

**Dalton** · 02-03-2008, 02:48 PM

It aint in my back-yard (thanks fok for that) but it's one big mother-snake...

**Norton** · 02-03-2008, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by Dalton

It aint in my back-yard (thanks fok for that) but it's one big mother-snake...

It's in the fish tank eating all the food you pour in there everyday. No wonder the fish aren't growing.

**Lady Hawk** · 02-03-2008, 04:00 PM

No pics but i had three snakes in my garden over the last few months one was orange, one red and black and one big silver bugger.
I don't mind snakes but the scorpions freaked me out a bit.

**Silent Ninja** · 03-03-2008, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by Dalton

It aint in my back-yard (thanks fok for that) but it's one big mother-snake...

WTF is that? Is it dragging a small wilder beast?

**MeMock** · 03-03-2008, 02:45 PM

Wallaby. Photo taken in the NW of West Aust.

**MeMock** · 04-03-2008, 05:17 AM

A WOMAN who survived an extraordinary crocodile attack has been killed by a snake.

Respected ecologist, feminist and renowned author Val Plumwood - who described her death roll with the giant saltie as "terror, terror, terror" - was found dead on her wilderness property.

The species of snake responsible for her death was still unknown last night.

Dr Plumwood, who was 67 when she died, was attacked by a crocodile while birdwatching from a canoe in Kakadu in 1985.

A territorial male charged the canoe, probably mistaking it for a rival.

Dr Plumwood shouted "go away" at the croc, lent up and clambered on to an overhanging tree branch.

The croc jumped up and wrenched her out of the tree.

The university academic said she thought she was going to die as the saltie went into a death roll with her clamped in its jaws.

But, for an unknown reason, the crocodile let go and Dr Plumwood found the water was shallow enough for her to stand up in.

She pulled herself back into the tree - but the croc again exploded out of the water and grabbed her.

And again it let her go.

Dr Plumwood sttaggered out of the water and crawled up a 2m mud bank, blood pouring from hideous wounds to her upper legs and pelvis.

She slithered down the bank twice before reaching the top.

Dr Plumwood dragged herself through the bush for a couple of hours.

It was dark before she was found by a rescue party.

"I was alive," she said. "Against all expectation, I was alive."

Even as Dr Plumwood was being driven to Royal Darwin Hospital, she begged her rescuers not to hunt down and kill the crocodile that nearly killed her.

She said the animal was only doing what it was genetically primed to do.

"As I began my 13-hour journey to Darwin, my rescuers discussed going upriver the next day to shoot a crocodile," she said.

"I spoke strongly against this plan.

"I was the intruder - and no good purpose could be served by random revenge."

Dr Plumwood is believed to have died at her bush retreat near Canberra on Thursday. Her body was discovered on Saturday.

**November Rain** · 21-04-2008, 10:44 AM

Does anyone know of a website where you can enter details of a snake & get an idea what it was? The ones I've checked out have great long lists, but I've got no idea what subspecies to look under - all I know is it wasn't a cobra or a python. Had one in my garden yesterday, about 2m long, grey banded body & yellowish face with 'sunburst' markings radiating from the eyes. Got some pics, but not really good enough to identify it with. Anywhere I can go & check? Cheers.

bkkmadness · 21-04-2008, 02:02 PM

Have a look through this site NR, might help you it covers a fair amount of Thailand's snakes.

Snakes common

**JoGeAr** · 21-04-2008, 03:19 PM

Hope it wasn't one of these. Nasty.

Snakes of Southeast Asia : Amphibious Sea Snake - Laticauda colubrina

Scroll through it the site. You may recognise the culprit.

**November Rain** · 21-04-2008, 08:53 PM

Thanks guys, but, nope can't find him. None of the pics are good enough to post, but I was wrong about him being banded - the stripes on his body were horizontal. Can't find him on those sites. He seemed placid enough - just looked at me & when I didn't try to hurt him, eventually slithered away.

**mrsquirrel** · 22-04-2008, 07:29 AM

I used to be mates with a fella called Sky from Jamaica or Monserat . Lived down in Leicster. Would go to visit him and have to sit around his apartment with his two sodding massive pythons slithering about.

Used to batter my head.

**Marmite the Dog** · 22-04-2008, 11:28 AM

I used to have a nutter of a gf who had a royal python (amongst other exotica). It was probably the most boring pet in the world, as it never actually did anything. It may as well have been dead.

**Eliminator** · 22-04-2008, 02:09 PM

I have 4 cobra skins in my freezer, still can't find anywhere to get them tanned.

**Whiteshiva** · 22-04-2008, 02:33 PM

I get these in my garden from time to time - always on the run. Have explained to my boys that they are not to be messed with. I don't want to kill them, but I have tried to fill in holes and cracks in the perimeter wall, where I suspect they seek refuge. Been about 6 months since I last saw one - which doesn't mean squat, since they are difficult to spot even on a sunny day.

Also get the odd tree snake, which I think is a very cool and beautiful species.

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