Uninvited guest

[singo-26]

Found this bloke in the backyard this morning. The dog had fair upset him as you can tell by his stance.

[Prado BB]

ooohhhh, my pet hate, i would have Shite myself........where's the shovel?

[D4D]

Fark me, I would have screamed like a girl

[GU Rich]

On the news down here on Tuesday there was snake handler, he mentioned he had been busy over a few days due to the warm weather we had in Victoria!

[rockman]

ooohhhh, my pet hate, i would have Shite myself........where's the shovel?

Much safer leaving it alone

[staghornflat]

That is one fat snake!!

[singo-26]

ooohhhh, my pet hate, i would have Shite myself........where's the shovel?

Shovels. 1 by the back door for this reason, 1 in the trailer at the front door and 2 or 3 in the shed.
The dog was going it till we brought her inside, At first i just told her to shut up, Then realised she was being to insistant their was something there.

[singo-26]

Fark me, I would have screamed like a girl

Swmbo did.   

[singo-26]

That is one fat snake!!

Well fed on field mice i'd say. 

[dno]

I got the first tiger for the new season yesterday, 4Ft and also in very good nick just a little to slow  
He was sunning himself right were I'd been on my knees doing some fencing earlier this week, we also have a few shovels around the house and sheds.

[Jon]

Any guess on the species?

[singo-26]

This bloke was about 5 foot and definately a brown, With his fat guts he was also fairly slow.  

[pacs]

We get the odd brown snake one or two each year the bloke next door was telling me he uses yabbie pots then the shovel personally I preferred the shotgun when they came around on the farm pitty we are in suburbia theses days if it was a little smaller I'd give the yabbie pot a go but best to leave those big buggers to bugger off

[Snow]

Yep, an Eastern Brown Snake.

http://www.reptilepark.com.au/animalprofile.asp?id=109

[gunna]

it is goin to be a bad season  for snakes
a lot of mice & rats plenty of feed for them
i got 2 browns last wk  very fat
2 inch poly pipe works well
sheeds

[staghornflat]

We get the odd brown snake one or two each year the bloke next door was telling me he uses yabbie pots then the shovel personally I preferred the shotgun when they came around on the farm pitty we are in suburbia theses days if it was a little smaller I'd give the yabbie pot a go but best to leave those big buggers to bugger off

Yep, I always use my double barrel shovel!!

[bullfrog]

I too think it will be a season to really watch where you put your boot. Last w/end I saw as big a black snake as I've seen for a long time, very well fed he was too. I haven't seen one yet that a good charge of No4's wouldn't stop.

[singo-26]

I too think it will be a season to really watch where you put your boot. Last w/end I saw as big a black snake as I've seen for a long time, very well fed he was too. I haven't seen one yet that a good charge of No4's wouldn't stop.

Yep guna be a long season me thinks. I came across a brown last week that spanned the track I was driving, probably 8 feet at a guess. I've also spotted a couple of blacks cruising around.

[speewa158]

Did they have there hats on backwards 

[singo-26]

Did they have there hats on backwards 

Yep with boom boxes on their shoulders, Ghetto style.    

[Apollo]

Depending on what they are and where they are, depends on what happens to them (hypothetically as they are protected ).  If it is poisoness and near the house = GONE (bang bang), if it is harmless, then it stays.  Down the paddock or in the orchard, then blacks, black face whips, etc can stay, but taipans, browns, adders and roughs are dispatched.  We have several large (3-4.5m) carpets living in the sheds and they have been there for years keeping the mice population in check.  The 4.5m one has a habit of cruising through the packing shed during harvest season.  She can certainly empty a shed full of backpackers quickly.  Damm funny as she just slithers on through and out the back door without a care in the world.

We are trialling solar powered snake repellants around the house this year.  So far so good as there has been a few active elsewhere but I have yet to see one near the home.  If they work well, I might take one or two away with the camper.

[dazzler]

Without starting a word war why are we killing snakes. I hate em.  Scare the pants off me.

BUT

No one has died from a snake bite in oz since they worked out wrapping the limb with a bandage. (anyways, thats what our snake ranger fella says and so did snakeman, or the snake bloke, or whatever his name was at agfest said)  Happy to be proved wrong.

One of our workers was bitten by a Tiger snake the other day, we have real big tigers down here, and was unwell for two days.

We get tigers coming across our paddock down to the neighbours.  Border Collie does not like them and goes a bit strange when they are around.

cheers

[jaycamrie]

we get heaps of em on the farm , where we have problem areas like the dairy we lay down fruit tree mesh as we have two young kids ,snakes crawl over it and try to go through it and get stuck we caught 7 yes 7 brown snakes last summer but never a redbelly and we have heaps of them aswell you learn to keep a lookout , now is the time they are active

[Symon]

The only time I would kill a snake is if it was close to the house, otherwise just leave them alone.

[dno]

The only time I would kill a snake is if it was close to the house, otherwise just leave them alone.

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