A dog with a snake

cliff · #1 18-01-10, 19:53

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 · #2 18-01-10, 21:24

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 · #3 18-01-10, 22:15

Any Canucks contemplating an Aussie Summer visit?

Clive_Dakers · #4 18-01-10, 23:53

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 · #5 20-01-10, 05:57

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.

hrpearce · #6 23-01-10, 04:17

Who would have thought Vicki would be a contender in an olympic sprint, but with the right motivation she is quiet fast. That motivation came when she was steping over the storm water drain behind the garage and saw this snake below her. Vicki locked herself in the closest vehicle and wouldn't move until the snake was dead. It was in an awkwars place to get at so I pinned it down with a long handle shovel while Greg pounded it with a garden spade.

Bob McNeill · #7 23-01-10, 05:11

Mowing the grass up at work can get exciting, moving some machinary to get a straight run disturbed a family of copper heads, mum took of but I caught the 2 little ones put them in a jar for the office girl ( hates crawlies ) She took PITYon them, said let them go. just can,t get her to go near the long grass.

Ganmain Tony · #8 23-01-10, 13:53

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Originally Posted by hrpearce

Who would have thought Vicki would be a contender in an olympic sprint, but with the right motivation she is quiet fast. That motivation came when she was steping over the storm water drain behind the garage and saw this snake below her. Vicki locked herself in the closest vehicle and wouldn't move until the snake was dead. It was in an awkwars place to get at so I pinned it down with a long handle shovel while Greg pounded it with a garden spade.

As both Howard & I say - they dont make shovels with handles long enough.

Look at the bloody thing! Its the size of an Olive Python. They'll kill a fully grown horse in half an hour.

Ive run into 4 of them this summer, all big & fast moving. I moved in the opposite direction very cautiously.

The Eastern brown snake..........My secret shame is I'm scared stiff of em.