Very nasty
Cobra?
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Very nasty
Cobra?
Very cute - yes, cobra. Completely harmless if you leave it alone. Keeps rats and frogs away, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by good2bhappy
My little patch of heaven is no more :(...
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About 5:00 p.m. today as my wife was getting ready to go to market on her putt-putt, our dog Yako chased a snake up a tree. My wife yelled for me to come quickly, there was a big snake.
I shrieked like a schoolgirl, jumped up on a chair and wet my pants. After a few deep breaths, and a trip to the toolshed for a long-handled spade, I chased the fcuker out of a tree. It slithered into a drainage pipe directly under where my neighbor is standing in the photo.
I told my wife to watch for it to come out one end as I rattled a length of bamboo in the other. She wanted no part of that and ran for the neighbor for help. We finally scared it enough that it did a runner (is that possible?) out the neighbor's end and he clubbed it good.
He said it wasn't poisonous and if I didn't want it, he could trade it for a bottle of lao khao. I certainly didn't want it and wonder if I'll ever walk barefoot through my lawn again. :(
Had this coming over the wall into my garden about an hour ago.
Quite safe its a Painted Bronzeback. A tree viper.
I took the photo hanging out of the window as they freak me out still.
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Hmmm. We had a lot of snakes on the Cape in Far northern Queensland. I taught in Kurranda ( see previous post) and we also had loads in various remote communities in the NT. One thing I learnt was NOT to chase, attack or antagonise the bastards. Kepp an eye on them but leave them be. Eventually they'll clear off. If, as I've experienced, you've got a King brown in the girls toilets and 30 primary school girls dying for a piss, get an expert to remove it. Attacking it with a spade can lead to disastrous results.
Just a bit of advice from some one who's made the mistakes.
^You got bitten in the tongue?Quote:
Originally Posted by jandajoy
Not sure if this is true or coincidence but a friend in the village had snakes come every few days but we never got any pics.
He hated them and he heard that they are scared of geese so he bought a couple of geese, then had one snake 2 days later and none since then! 6 weeks later and snake free now.
I read on google that goose shit burns snakes skin if they come in contact with it so maybe works :confused:
Only down side is he has to hose down his drive 3 times a day, you wouldn't believe how much shit can come from 2 birds!
No pics. Both my camera & mobile phone are on the blink. :(
One of my paraplegic dogs (all 6 sleep outside in cages) was barking last night. Yelled at her to shut up & eventually she did.
Went to change their bedding this morning & in the cage of the newest & smallest of them were two very large chunks of shed snakeskin. I reckon I could have fit my forearm inside them easily - perhaps even my upper arm. Near another cage was another chunk. From the size & colour of the skin, I reckon it was a python. My poor, wee dog spent some of last night with a fecking huge snake in her cage with her!!!! :( Luckily she was completely untouched and seemed fine. Think it must have been using the bars of her cage to slough off the skin. Eeeeuurrrggh!
snake slithered past me yesterday, right down the middle of the road, around 2 and a half metres in length, by far the biggest i have seen here so far.
not sure what it was, but didn't look like anything poisonous, quite a flat shaped snout, brownish markings.
Your dog was lucky, as I recall after a skin shed snakes are very hungry and ready to feed.
^ Don't say that. I don't know where it went. It might come back. I've just been looking at that website you posted earlier, Maddy & it says pythons common to my area eat warm blooded mammals up to the size of a German Shepherd. :(
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Anyone know what this is?
A white box with a red X in it?
looks like a blue screen to me, i don't even get the white box.
lazy hotlinking good2be.
Not a bad thing really.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by November Rain
it made one hell of a noise!
^ describe the noise...
it's a cobra isn't it?
How do I post a WMV of a bit of a snake.?
Or can I email to someone to post?
i THINK IT IS A KING BY THE SCALES ON THE HEAD
The noice was a realy weird cross between a hiss and a dog snarling!
hissing cobra.
where was that taken?
over the garden wall!
Minburi
I think king cobras make a loud hissing sound and the head looks very kingish.
did you get a look at the rest of its body?