A dog with a snake

[Ganmain Tony]

That has completely freaked me out!!!!

I like the look on Bronson's face and the comment 'hurry up & take this thing!'. Thats exactly what he looks like he's saying.

What a great doggy....

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Ganmain Tony

That has completely freaked me out!!!!

I like the look on Bronson's face and the comment 'hurry up & take this thing!'. Thats exactly what he looks like he's saying.

What a great doggy....

You wouldn't want to have been with me a couple of days ago at the property in South Gippsland. I was walking up a track from the barn to the house and almost trod on a Red Belly Black snake. It actually reared up and I jumped back and watched quietly while it moved into some covering grass immediately behind it. Then I was able to move past but it did give me a bit of a start! That's the second major snake encounter I've had this season and I think I've had my share.
One of our neighbours has been doing some contract blackberry spraying in our lower gullies and has come across some very large tiger snakes on the narrow tracks he cuts into the 15 foot high blackberries. He usually gives them a spray with the blackberry poison and they head away from him, but it's not the sort of confined space I'd like to encounter one!

[cliff]

I hope and pray that Princess my Assistance Dog does not bring one home as well. Before shifting to Gympie I lost my dog to snake bite at Tansey and I still miss him.

The photo below is Princess taken almost 12 months ago

[hrpearce]

It must be the season for close encounters with snakes. Last week while I was at work at Betty's her daughter was walking down the steps beside the patio when she felt a breese on her face. A brown snake was sunning on the patio and fortunately the rails ruined it's aim or she would have been bitten on the face. Betty heard her screem and the snake suffered lead poisoning.
Keith I too spray snakes to keep them away they turn fastest if you can hit them in an open mouth with a jet spray at 150psi.

[Keith Webb]

Any Canucks contemplating an Aussie Summer visit?

[Clive_Dakers]

I almost picked up a Coral snake from the floor of my office while in Belize a few years ago. I thought it was a piece of string.

[lynx42]

We had a cat who loved to leave everything it caught on the back step. One day we spotted Niggy doing a funny dance. Walk three step, turn around twice and repeat as often as you like. Closer inspection showed Niggy to have a tiger snake in her mouth and the snake coiling around her body. That's why she would turn around, to step out of the coils. Have you ever tried to get a cat to drop a snake, a very angry one at that? The cat wasn't bitten and the tiger snake despatched with a shovel. No time to get a photo, it was before the days of digital cameras, but we still talk about it often.