Snakes Again

I like snakes!!

Guess it'll be a good year for me!! LOL

Folks in Perth...please don't kill snakes for the sake of it...they are very important to our (diminishing) ecosystem. If they're appearing to threaten you, back away slowly (if you can) and let them go about their business of finding a mate. Summer's almost upon us, and these guys (along with other reptiles) will be outnabout as the days warm up, looking for SEX!! ;-)

Killing snakes and other reptiles should be considered a LAST RESORT folks.

Andy

X2 remember snakes WILL NOT chase you if you are lucky enough to come accross one and not didturb it so it takes off just observe it they are fascinating.
Some of them are sociable and will join you on the couch

Himble posted:
Where are you located? so we can post everyone we get to you.

You can start up your own reptile park.
Cheers
96

Perth and yea i would love to add to the collection.
Strongly recomend a snake handling course to Snake o phobes.
It will give you a real appreciation of how an aggitated snake will behave and how unlikely you are to actually be put at risk by having snakes around.
typically brian Bush has 1/2 a dozen or so freshly caught Dugites, King Browns, death Adders gwarders etc which groups of around 10 take turns aggitating. cornering and capturing.
No one gets bitten because it is all about understanding the snakes desire for flight not fight.
Contrary to popular belief our snakes are far from the worlds deadliest - They kill very few people. Snakes in sri lanka and africa etc are far more deadly killing many people

Nice beast davoe ,

I had 2 carpets that i raised from 2 weeks old -- they were almost 7 feet long each when i sold them. Kind of really regret selling them now as they were great Pythons

only ever bit me 3 times and those times were my own fault .... the never bit anyone else Inc kids ....


Boc

Snakes and lead don't mix, but it is the best way to handle them.

Plus they are easier to handle.

6ft of snake 1oz of lead = 1 Tame snake.

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After thinking about it, and way it was coiled up, it probably had come out from under a truck. And yes even it was another creature, that was fury or fluffy I still would have had to hit it. I was doing 70kmh an hour ( speed limit), hitting the car alongside or jamming on brakes, and having the car hit me up the back or hitting the curb at that speed would have done a fair bit of damage to mum, me and the car. It is four lane highway/link road that connects the Roe Hwy with the Albany Hwy it is very busy road. Now has I sit here, over looking my park, there is a magpie being bashed up by it's mother/father do I go and save it, or do I let nature take it course? It does look sick, wing it broken, and it is walking around on one leg. Last time I save a duck and took it to vet, from the same park, it had to be put down.

We live in semi-rural area and we went to local development authority yesterday, as in the paper there was article about a new shopping centre going here, I could not figure out where it would be. Turns out the shopping centre is going to be right next door to a wet land. and that this whole area is going go from being rural/semi rural to urban/suburbs. So it just not along the Mandurah/Rockingham rail line, but out here. Smallest block size is going to be 300sqm.

What's this? 'if it moves, shoot it' mentality

Shoot it physically that way it is tame enough to relocate and he won't bite.

G'day Boc,

Yes mate, I too watch in disgust when ppl's swerve to run over snakes in my part of the world - Tamworth and the greater North West of NSW. I have reported 1 vehcile to Police giving all my particulars but never heard anymore. Leave em alone and they'll respond in kind 99.9% of the time.

Cheers

Dont bother reporting to police - they dont care ...... i had a friend that had his car hit in a car park - they got all the details from the offending car even the guys description -- took to the police and they said they cant do anything, take it to your insurance company ...... ( guy took off from the scene)


with that said -- your best bet would be contact NPWS - they do take these things seriously ....

Boc

its a traffic offence reversing without due care and the pigs are duty bound to upholsd the law
BUT unless they are being lazy innwhich case it should have been reported to his supervisor
as for reporting people running over wildlife.
Wouldnt bother unfortunatly all they need do is say they couldnt safely avoid it - without video tape no chance