My Snake Thread with Pics

[SEA Traveler]

I was out by the pool taking a late morning nap. In the background I hear the wife sweeping and cleaning up around the patio. I’m guessing she is giving me hints that it is getting time to go somewhere. I doze back off and then I hear a loud shrieking sound that my wife makes when she sees something that scares her. Well it scared me also because I was sound asleep and had no clue what was going on when the yelling started. “Look, look, look” she says. “Over by the pump house”. A snake had just crossed the patio and was crawling into the grass. “Get it, get it out of here!” she says.
I go and get the swimming pool skimmer net and pole and go look for the snake. The wife goes to a neighbors and says there is a snake in her house and needs help getting out.
I can’t locate the darned thing. So the neighbor comes over and we look around for a few a while. And then about 50 meters away the snake can be seen moving even further away in the yard. The neighbor has a long stick and takes chase and wastes no time clubbing it. By the time I get there it is pretty much dead so I drape it over the stick and carry it out to the field across the way. But not before I took a few pictures.





Now this snake is different than the one we saw around the house 2 or 3 weeks ago. Can anyone advise as to the type of snake this is and if it might be poisonous or not? Details: brown and about 1 meter in length. No other distinguishing features that I could note.

[Loy Toy]

Heaps of those around our place and the locals say it is a rat snake and moderately poisonous.

Shame you had to kill it mate but you have to keep the wife happy.

Did it taste nice!

[SEA Traveler]

Heaps of those around our place and the locals say it is a rat snake and moderately poisonous.

Shame you had to kill it mate but you have to keep the wife happy.

Did it taste nice!

If it is a rat snake, not all that concerned.

Heck, it caused me to be awaken from my nap, what did you expct me to do? no really, I can not take the credit for doing the nasty deed as it was the neighbor who clubbed it to death.

and yes, the wife was happy just the same not to have it around anymore.

I've eaten worse things when out in the field doing survival skill training. But I was thinking about saving it and putting it on the Barbee for when you come on over. MAke you feel right at home LT....

[Johnny Longprong]

Looks a bit like a chequered Keelback or the Poorbuggerme snake in this case.

[SEA Traveler]

Looks a bit like a chequered Keelback or the Poorbuggerme snake in this case.

I think the votes for Rat Snake have it in the case Johnny. Thanks for the insight though.

[good2bhappy]

I go for rat snake
nice pics

[lom]

Snakes of Thailand - Ptyas

[SEA Traveler]

Snakes of Thailand - Ptyas

Thanks lom! The second picture of the rat snake clearly replicates what looked like the snake in my yard. RAT SNAKE it is. Thanks.

[Attilla the Hen]

Thais don't seem to understand that the snakes eat the rats and mice that eat the rice harvest.

[SEA Traveler]

Thais don't seem to understand that the snakes eat the rats and mice that eat the rice harvest.

U R correct A the H, but in this case, the only thing growing in this area is tapioka, coconuts,, bananas, cashews, and mango. no rice.

[robuzo]

Thais don't seem to understand that the snakes eat the rats and mice that eat the rice harvest.

U R correct A the H, but in this case, the only thing growing in this area is tapioka, coconuts,, bananas, cashews, and mango. no rice.

Doesn't mean there aren't any rats about, and they are many orders of magnitude more dangerous than most snakes, especially this one. Damned shame. It was just a plain old Indo-Chinese rat snake, not at all dangerous although some of the locals might think so, maybe because it hurts to be bitten by one.

I've seen locals leave snakes alone before, they aren't all complete idiots.

[Rural Surin]

Thais don't seem to understand that the snakes eat the rats and mice that eat the rice harvest.

I believe they do.

[Attilla the Hen]

Thais don't seem to understand that the snakes eat the rats and mice that eat the rice harvest.

I believe they do.

They don't act like it.
They seem to think all snakes must be expunged from nature, nasty, evil things.......

[PlanK]

Thais don't seem to understand that the snakes eat the rats and mice that eat the rice harvest.

Doesn't matter, the Thais eat the snakes, and the rats, and the mice, and the harvest.

[Attilla the Hen]

They worship the Naga, but, will kill a cobra on sight........

[phunphin]

these grow very long, back when we were at the resort, one was hunting frogs in a hole beside our house, just it's eyeballs were visible so i poked it with a stick, and got a huge fright when this 3 m + snake shot out .
huge and moved like lightning...very cool

[phuketbound]

Why did they kill the snake? That is awful. They should have just took it elsewhere.

[phunphin]

Why did they kill the snake? That is awful. They should have just took it elsewhere.

Because they treat all snakes as poisonous, and if you don't know the difference, then its a good rule...however bad for the snake.

[SEA Traveler]

Why did they kill the snake? That is awful. They should have just took it elsewhere.

Phuketbound, there are plenty more awful things to be concerned about than a dead snake that was put to good use. Using your argument, what about the cows, pigs, chickens, fish, and any other meat that we eat. Is that awful that they are killed to eat? Anyway, the pics below reflect that there is really someone who benifited from the snake being killed and it was in fact dinner for a family who otherwise may have gone hungry. Now that would have been awful.....

[BillyBobThai]

As a young teenager, my brother and I went snake hunting from a boat with a
410 shotgun. Most of what we killed cotton mouth water mocasins. To this day
I still think that the only good snake is a dead snake. They either can hurt me or make me hurt myself getting away. Better safe than sorry. Just kill the bastard.

To the bleeding heart who hates killing snakes, GET A LIFE.

[SEA Traveler]

As a young teenager, my brother and I went snake hunting from a boat with a
410 shotgun. Most of what we killed cotton mouth water mocasins. To this day
I still think that the only good snake is a dead snake. They either can hurt me or make me hurt myself getting away. Better safe than sorry. Just kill the bastard.

To the bleeding heart who hates killing snakes, GET A LIFE.

410? Wow, I learned how to hunt with a 410 bolt action shotgun 50 years ago. Held 3 shells. I still have the shotgut but it is in the States. Now the wife like to shoot it so we usually do at the local hunters and anglers club. Nice gun for a kid or woman. Not much of a kick to it. I also used to get pumpkin balls for it to do deer hunting. Good thing I never saw any deer to shoot at as the gun with pumpkin balls probably would not have killed the deer anyway. Unless it was only 10 or 15 yards away.

[robuzo]

As a young teenager, my brother and I went snake hunting from a boat with a
410 shotgun. Most of what we killed cotton mouth water mocasins. To this day
I still think that the only good snake is a dead snake. They either can hurt me or make me hurt myself getting away. Better safe than sorry. Just kill the bastard.

To the bleeding heart who hates killing snakes, GET A LIFE.

410? Wow, I learned how to hunt with a 410 bolt action shotgun 50 years ago. Held 3 shells. I still have the shotgut but it is in the States. Now the wife like to shoot it so we usually do at the local hunters and anglers club. Nice gun for a kid or woman. Not much of a kick to it. I also used to get pumpkin balls for it to do deer hunting. Good thing I never saw any deer to shoot at as the gun with pumpkin balls probably would not have killed the deer anyway. Unless it was only 10 or 15 yards away.

I got my first pheasant with a .410 when I was 14, also a bolt action (don't think I've seen another kind of .410, other than a pistol). Also a good gun if you don't want to tear up the animal you are planning to eat, which is the only reason that hunting ever made any sense to me. Pretty weird for a self-parody to be accusing others of not having a life.

[DrivingForce]

As a young teenager, my brother and I went snake hunting from a boat with a
410 shotgun. Most of what we killed cotton mouth water mocasins. To this day
I still think that the only good snake is a dead snake. They either can hurt me or make me hurt myself getting away. Better safe than sorry. Just kill the bastard.

To the bleeding heart who hates killing snakes, GET A LIFE.

Billy Bob eh?? Not many Billy Bobs I know that would hurt themselves trying to get away from a harmless snake ......

Most I knew were woodsy folks who could easily identify the dangerous ones and either caught the harmless ones to mess with or keep as pets and only killed the dangerous ones out of self defense or protection of their loved ones..

[Whiteshiva]

To this day I still think that the only good snake is a dead snake. They either can hurt me or make me hurt myself getting away. Better safe than sorry. Just kill the bastard.

Funny, that is exactly how I feel about ignorant human scum. They cause far more damage to people, animals and the environment than snakes ever did. Wipe them out!

To the bleeding heart who hates killing snakes, GET A LIFE.

To the vaccuum brained neanderthals who oversimplify everything, and then get upset when others actually exhibit common sense, WILL YOU PLEASE STOP BREATHING - or at the very least stop breeding!

[rickda]

I guess she wanted it killed as Thai gals only like the Trouser Snake