Wayne-o replied:

Me and snakes don't get along, you can keep it hey!

Al & Mrs Al (Vic) replied:

Hi Royce,

helped the neighbour deal with a Tiger Snake in her front garden two weeks ago, first time in 8 years have we seen one near the house, ususally see them on roads etc, have been reinforcing to the kids to be very wary..

cheers

Lyn

Footloose replied:

I can see I'm going to have to be more careful of the red bellied blackies we find around here. My new sit on ran over one the other day. Never known them out in the long grass before, no nest within coo ee and it was the middle of the day.

666toy replied:

Accidentley shot a snake under the house 2 weeks ago here in new england. 6.5 ft brownie (i really was aiming for the cat but i am a bad shot lol) there definatly out & about now....666toy

Shaker replied:

Try not to kill the Black snakes, they help to keep the Tiger snakes under control.

We got heaps of snakes here too!
I really worry about the dog, Golden Retriever, he has killed about 4 in the last couple of years.

Motherhen replied:

My daughter just came in with a freshly shed dugite skin - the snake must have been huge. We occasionally see them near the shed (when she roll called the lambs last week, there was an 'untagged' snake on her list). She has mounted the skin on the wall just above my computer. It's so much bigger than the other skins hanging in here. We get mainly only dugites here, shy, and wonderful rodent hunters. The property near the south coast is another story - loads of tiger snakes there. Live and let live.

Willem replied:

It just goes to show that the most dangerous thing on this planet is the HUMAN

Member - Stephen L (SA) replied:

Hi Royce
Where we live here in Clare SA, the main snakes that we have are the common brown (the worlds second most poisonest snake after the inland taipan). There have been 5 people in SA bitten this year already, and one man 43 died, after not knowing he was bitten. They said on the TV that the common brown has only small fangs and most people would not know that they have been bitten, more like a scratch if coming in contact with long grass in shorts. Speaking to one of our local Vets on Friday, and he has had over 20 cats in for snake bikes and 4 dogs in over the last 2 weeks. The down side is that only one of the dogs survived. He said that cats have a greater chance than dogs. Perhaps thats why there are so many feral cats in the wild?

Stephen

Mr Fawlty replied:

Yeah, I'm a big tough Vietnam Vet & snakes scare the living daylights out of me... I can recall one day on manoeuvres in beautiful Vietnam we went into harbour one night and there is a very minor disturbance which on closer inspection was revealed as an absolutely enormous snake of the Python family. It was coiled up having a snooze and along it there was a big bump, probably a wild pig or similar that it had presumably eaten... This snake had a head on it the size of a football, it was, expletive deleted HUGE...Anyway the order to "stand to" is given - then a whisper is heard "the snake has moved"... well within seconds there's diggers out of their pits up trees, sounds of rifles being cocked, absolute mayhem....Oh yeah tough Aussies scared of a snake.
I see the odd one here they come to drink at my lilly pond....A mate has video of a red belly swimming underwater in the Murrumbidgee chasing small fish, I never believed that they would do that.
I saw a clever way to discourage them, an upturned drum with a small inverted U shaped hole cut in the rim. An egg is placed either side of the hole, snake swallows egg on outside & slithers in to swallow egg on inside and discovers that It can't back out of the opening. The inverted can makes an excellent jig for the accidental surgical removal of the head with a spade...

Ozboc replied:

something to ponder -- THE MAJORITY of snake bits are from people trying to kill snakes ..... NOT from being in the wrong place at the wrong time

Boc