wpcoe wrote:Wow, the useful trivia one can learn here. This is very re-assuring info from one of the snake-catcher links above:
"Apparently because this device does not give off any heat, the snake can't detect it. Thus the brave soul can move it over a raised snake head."
So, those beady little eyes aren't much use other than as infra-red detectors? If so, that would vastly improve my confidence in trying to catch a snake. I wouldn't want to hack away at one and kill it, just safely and confidently lasso it and escort it from the premises.
They're not actually blind, but they also don't have very good eyesight, depending on what your idea of good eyesight is. Spitting cobras will hit you square in the eyes at three meters away. Most snakes can also be walked - grabbed by the tail and guided along, although you'll almost always have to dodge a few strikes. I wouldn't advise you try it though, at least not with a cobra or viper. Get yourself a rat snake to practice with first.
I really recommend the PVC pipe style catcher, based on my own experience, both here in Thailand, as well as back in South Africa.
Don't try to impress me with your manner of dress cos a monkey himself is a monkey no less - cold fact
"Apparently because this device does not give off any heat, the snake can't detect it. Thus the brave soul can move it over a raised snake head."
Reassurance through mis-information because only Boas/Pythons and Pit Vipers sense heat properly. All the others use touch/sound (through their chin and other body parts) and taste (through their tongue) and some have very good close range eyesight. If your diet consists of cold blooded animals there's little point in having heat sensors.
Be careful and learn to identify all possible snakes of SE Asia; if in doubt ... we'll that's up to you.
Is it true that if you have frogs in the garden, there are probably no snakes there? Anyone know please?
We have a Koi pond with a waterfall that attracts tons of frogs that croak us to sleep every night... and guess what... we have tons of snakes too! I'm pretty sure that frogs are one of their favorite treats.
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
Is it true that if you have frogs in the garden, there are probably no snakes there? Anyone know please?
We have a Koi pond with a waterfall that attracts tons of frogs that croak us to sleep every night... and guess what... we have tons of snakes too! I'm pretty sure that frogs are one of their favorite treats.
Yes, snakes eat frogs. We actually photographed it happening here in our yard one morning. If I can dig up the pics I'll post them.
Don't try to impress me with your manner of dress cos a monkey himself is a monkey no less - cold fact
Don't know what those are but a friend and I were playing golf Wednesday and a meter+ long cobra crossed the cart path directly in front of us. We had to stop and just let him pass as he didn't seem to be in a hurry. The caddys were squealing "jhong ang, jhong ang!" That's the first one I remember seeing on a golf course here. The rest of the day, when I hit a ball in the bush, I didn't look for it and told the caddys "mai pen rai" too.
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
The top picture looks like another Asian Flying Snake, how long was it?
The second picture looks like a Kukri snake, either Barron's (unlikely) or Banded (most likely) - neither are any danger to you or your pets unless you keep frogs !
The third picture looks like a dead snake.
I find that type of snake (dead) in my yard a lot thanks to my Soi dogs.
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
The dead snake (snake # 1) is a whip snake and not a keelback.
Totally harmless for dogs, cats, human beings etc. but not for frogs and lizards.
The # 3 snake is what I believe a Tree Racer.
Again a pretty harmless snake and not, what so ever, no need or any reason for action.
They belongs here and are really helping you to keep the frog-population down.
Please guys, don't kill the snakes if you don't know anything about them, and don't listen to the locals who only want to eat them!!
Most of them will tell you that every snake is dangerous, then kill them.
This is not true!!
A vast majority of snakes are pretty harmless, the few who doesn't fit the description of "harmless" then just stay away!!
Read, study and learn more about these magnificent creatures!!
Earlier in this thread (01May2011) I posted about a snake in the kitchen of the townhouse I had moved into on Soi 80. Luckily, it was gone within 30 minutes of me snapping its mug shot.
Since that episode, I sealed all the gaps I could find between the wall and roof with expanding foam, and later (due to rain leakage) the landlord had a local fellow slather about 1.5 feet width of concrete on the roof around the three sides of the roof adjoining other structures. Great! A hermetically sealed kitchen, finally.
Wrong. This morning, dangling from a corner in the joint between the wall and roof/ceiling, I found a shed snake skin! Holy cr@p. This snake's probably been in and out of the kitchen on a regular basis. I checked with the lady that rented me the place (not the owner) and she said the townhouse was empty for a long time before it was renovated and I rented it this spring.
I'm seriously wondering if that kitchen were this snake's home before I moved in, and further wonder if it still lives there full time, and simply hides when I enter. The kitchen is separated from the main house by a wall complete with screened jalousie windows and has one of those basic metal screen doors with a noisy sliding bolt latch, so it would have clear advance notice of my entry.
I have NO other idea why I'm the only one on the soi with a serpentine visitor (resident?) The owner is away right now, but when she returns we'll try to find someone to locate just where the snake enters/leaves. Apparently it's where the snake skin is hanging from, but I'm not willing to romp through the tall grasses behind my townhouse to examine the roof from the outside -- knowing that there's at least ONE snake in those grasses.
The shed skin appears to be from the same kind of snake as I saw before -- a golden "flying" tree snake -- so I don't feel threatened, per se, just majorly creeped out. In fact, so far, I haven't been able to remove the hanging snake skin. It's kind of like the snake left a head on a stake to remind me it's *his* (her?) territory.
Any ideas on how to "discourage" my snake(s) from liking my kitchen so much?
(The dried out leaves are from a vine that crept into the kitchen before the ceiling/roof was sealed.)
Pictures can be decieving but that snake looks tiny as hell and very easy just to grab it by the tail and throw it into the bushes or wack it in a bag to take somewhere else (a snake that size will not be able to get through thick garden gloves)
I have had 2 pet snakes back in England. The first was a Royal Python and the second a Burmese python but I am still pretty scared of wild snakes. If there is any other way DO NOT kill these things unless it is a danger to your children playing in the yard.
