I want my own snake thread and more.

[Tubtaywun]

i have been handling snakes since the age of 8 years

In the rice fields I would have let the snake go on its way ....but it was not up to me to make that decision. Most Thais will kill a snake.

I have no experience with snakes.

Since you have experience you may advise me before the situation arises.

I will be living in a walled garden with one side open to a river in a semi jungle environment. I have 2 children, one is young. I expect to see snakes and would prefer not to kill them but I am scared for the younger one especially after seeing how close this one came. He is a boy and could have easily turned and run over the snake which could have provoked a bite. Boys get into things and under things.

If you scare a snake off will it not return for whatever it came for in the first place. I have no experience and would not try to handle a poisonus snake to remove it farther from my land.

How could I live if a snake I scared away returned and bit my son... it may be a long shot but is it worth the risk?

[ossierob]

give that mongrel a wide berth if possible....

[tsicar]

i have been handling snakes since the age of 8 years

In the rice fields I would have let the snake go on its way ....but it was not up to me to make that decision. Most Thais will kill a snake.

I have no experience with snakes.

Since you have experience you may advise me before the situation arises.

I will be living in a walled garden with one side open to a river in a semi jungle environment. I have 2 children, one is young. I expect to see snakes and would prefer not to kill them but I am scared for the younger one especially after seeing how close this one came. He is a boy and could have easily turned and run over the snake which could have provoked a bite. Boys get into things and under things.

If you scare a snake off will it not return for whatever it came for in the first place. I have no experience and would not try to handle a poisonus snake to remove it farther from my land.

How could I live if a snake I scared away returned and bit my son... it may be a long shot but is it worth the risk?

ok, here's how to do it with far less risk of being bitten than by trying to kill it:
take one plastic bucket and throw in some crumpled up pieces of newspaper or a bunch of rags, etc.
place it, open end nearest the snake, or in the direction in which the snake is trying to move to escape you.
using a stick or a broom, simply move the snake in the direction of the bucket and it WILL happilly enter and hide under the papers or rags.
tilt the bucket upright, cover and carry it off to a wild location where it can be safely released by emptying the bucket with a swinging motion, as if you were throwing out a bucket of water.

the snake will not return.
snakes are stoopid and live only for food and shelter.
they would rather escape than confront, and probably about 90% that you will ever encounter are totally harmless.
...and even the venomous types will do more good than harm around the home.
i think that if you knew how many snakes probably lived in very close proximity to yourself and your family: unobserved, discreet and without malicious intent, you would be shocked.

your kids are more at risk of attack and potentially harmfull effects from soidogs, mosquitoes and flies than they are from snakes.

..but if you do encounter one and don't want to take a chance, try the bucket method.
it works.

[Tubtaywun]

Great post.... thanks,

I am sure I am not the only one who has learnt something here today.

take one plastic bucket

Its not gonna be a bucket it'll be one of those big bins with a lid.....Ill do everything as you said but I am not carrying a snake around in a bucket.

I know he will probably stay under the paper but just in case he had a bad childhood, has had enough of this world and decides to take a farang with him...
I think I will go with the large size bin with a lid.

i think that if you knew how many snakes probably lived in very close proximity to yourself and your family: unobserved, discreet and without malicious intent, you would be shocked.

Yes, I would think that was very true....Thanks again for the post