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    I've got a skin in my freezer that's almost big enough to wrap around me 1 and 1/2 times but the hood got cut in the wrong spot. Need to find a tanner here to make a belt. Trying to find a couple of big cobras to make a pair of boots out of. I keep telling my neighbors to call if they find one and I'll go catch the snakes for them. A couple have called but by the time I got there they had already chopped them into a bunch of pieces.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Little Chuchok
    ^ can you make sure that it's a really,really big one? I need a new belt.
    Dunno man maybe have to get bit twice I read that cobras only get about 6 - 8 ft in length. if you're lucky maybe we got King Cobras.

    Did you know that the King Cobra's venom is much weaker than other cobras? If injected in the same quantities it most likely would not be fatal. Not to worry, they can inject up to 7ml at a go. Did I really read that this is supposed to be enough to kill like 200 people? Both the King and others can inflict dry bites too. Did I mention I've been doing alot reading on the subject?
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    I can remember watching Steve irwin talking about the Cobras and a "warning bite" that can be dry etc.Wouldn't like to try it though!!

    As for the inference that I have a large girth, I will take great delight in calling you and saying..."gee frankie, this WIld Turkey Single Barrel 12 year Old Straight Kentucky Bourbon Whisky that is 101 proof is really fcuking nice.Have a great day." click!


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    Naw man I'm sure a itty-bitty garter snake wold fit your svelte and slender midsection; twice over! Huirry up with the booze now willya?

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    ^You sweet talking bastard!

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    Party time ! Firecrackers and drums, cobras like that, they will come out to have a look...

    Keep partying is a solution to keep them away ! Hire Dj pat's services and advertise for ravers in Pangan, after one week non stop they will be few miles away...

    Get yourself a Rottweiler, friend over here as 3 dogs, one of them spot a snake, and the one rotty goes straigth to him, one bite and a good shake in the mouth, the snake is done in a blink...

    the 2 other dogs are not rottys and just bark and stay away from the reptile, the rotty has proven successfull quite a few times now

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    Quote Originally Posted by friscofrankie
    Now the old lady is just about scared to death of anything that slithers, slinks or even crawls
    So how'd she end up with you, FF?

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    What you need is a secretary bird.



    The Secretary Bird is instantly recognizable as having an eagle-like body on crane-like legs which increases the bird’s height to around 1.3 m (four feet) tall. It's largely terrestrial, hunting its prey on foot. Adults hunt in pairs and sometimes as loose familial flocks, stalking through the habitat with long strides. Prey consists of insects, small mammals, lizards, snakes, young birds, bird eggs, and sometimes dead animals killed in brush fires. Larger herbivores are not hunted, although there are some reports of Secretary Birds killing young gazelles.
    Better keep your pet gazelles indoors, though.

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    Thais would have that on th BBQ

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    With regards to the OP and apologies if its already been stated but I have it on good authority that the coastline of Ireland has been painted with a patented Snake repelent that appears to have been working for some 2000 years.

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    Frankie, fox terriers are good snake and rat dogs. They are as game as.

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    Quote Originally Posted by benbaaa View Post
    What you need is a secretary bird.



    The Secretary Bird is instantly recognizable as having an eagle-like body on crane-like legs which increases the bird’s height to around 1.3 m (four feet) tall. It's largely terrestrial, hunting its prey on foot. Adults hunt in pairs and sometimes as loose familial flocks, stalking through the habitat with long strides. Prey consists of insects, small mammals, lizards, snakes, young birds, bird eggs, and sometimes dead animals killed in brush fires. Larger herbivores are not hunted, although there are some reports of Secretary Birds killing young gazelles.
    Better keep your pet gazelles indoors, though.
    That's amazing. She looks exactly like Aon at the AIS office.

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    I heard theres a shitload of cobras in thailand but most folk manage. Whys that?

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    I'm always looking for the cobras and can never find them. By the time my neighbors call and I get there, they've chopped them to bits. Looking for 2 big cobras right now. I've got the skin of a 5 footer in my freezer now but they chopped the hood, so only good for a belt, want a pair for boots to be made.

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    In my country, we keep a pair of the barnyard geese. It seems to pester the snakes as much as Thetyim's pair of cats. It also seems that the geese's shit is a repellent!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bluechild View Post
    I heard theres a shitload of cobras in thailand but most folk manage. Whys that?
    Because countrary to popular perception, they will run/slide for cover as soon as they notice you, which is usually way before you notice them.

    There is also a shitload of mozzies/tourists/motorbikes/spicy food/bad liquor/katoys/rain/karaoke bars in Thailand, but folk still manage.

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    Is there anyway to smoke out your house? Snakes around here don't like smoke.

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    ^ Set fire to the mattress?

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    Quote Originally Posted by attaboy View Post
    Is there anyway to smoke out your house? Snakes around here don't like smoke.
    A bonfire in the living room should do the trick. Throw some wet grass and a couple of old tyres on, and you'll get rid of the mozzies as well.

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    I'm happy to play the straight guy on this topic. Howabout ten or more of them giant spiral incense? The wifey will think you got religion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whiteshiva
    A bonfire in the living room should do the trick
    This sounds like a nice idea with the temps where they've been lately alshot I think it would only work for one day, house bein wood 'n all. Coulda used a fire last night, fuckin cold.

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    They say that you should smoke your house once a month, use a charcoal braizer and use a shit load of chilis so they saturate everything, good for snakes, mossies, termites and most vermin, but after a day closed up, air it out well before going in.

    And the word is, if you have a bull cobra hanging around a nest, do not bother him, he is waiting for the eggs to hatch and he will eat all the young, kill him and you will be up to your ass in cobras.

    Least thats what they tell me. Let me know if it works..

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