Snakes in a room

Pat's Van · November 6, 2014

Moomin said:
A straight stroke or do you add a little twist??

a little twist ??? it's not a fkn gin n tonic

Whitebootman · November 6, 2014

Bryan said:
FK THAT.

This, from a long way away.

Much respect for even being in the room mate.

mbyrd75 · November 6, 2014

Seriously the scariest situation I could ever imagine being in. I once quit a job because there were snakes on the property. lol Good luck man

Tramps_mate · November 6, 2014

WA Toffee said:
I finally managed to get onto a snake handlers course today. I knew I would have to catch some as part of the course, but I always thought they were non venomous. No, he opens his snake box and chucks an adult king brown snake out, followed by an angry dugite (they can hiss quite loud), and finished off with a juvenile king brown, smaller, just as venomous and angry as its dad but twice as fast.

Got struck at a couple of times, but survived to tell the tale.

In West Derby?

allezlesbleus · November 6, 2014

My son is near Perth at the moment. Blue tongued lizard got in his house. Harmless apparently but it looked fierce. Good pic of him picking it up. Snakes and sharks!!!! What a place!!

EFCNIK · November 6, 2014

But its not just gonna slowly amble up to him open its gob and let him slip in there is it? Even if the pray is dead snakes strike and then coil around. He'll be killed. Ace.

WA Toffee · November 6, 2014

allezlesbleus said:
My son is near Perth at the moment. Blue tongued lizard got in his house. Harmless apparently but it looked fierce. Good pic of him picking it up. Snakes and sharks!!!! What a place!!

Yep, blue tongues are harmless. They eat small snakes, so are a good thing to have around. This is the cute guy we had on the course yesterday.

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allezlesbleus · November 6, 2014

WA Toffee said:
Yep, blue tongues are harmless. They eat small snakes, so are a good thing to have around. This is the cute guy we had on the course yesterday.
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Donald Twain · November 7, 2014

My biggest phobia is having to handle the Blue veined trumpet snake, and watching it rattle.

fatshark · November 7, 2014

WA Toffee said:
I finally managed to get onto a snake handlers course today. I knew I would have to catch some as part of the course, but I always thought they were non venomous. No, he opens his snake box and chucks an adult king brown snake out, followed by an angry dugite (they can hiss quite loud), and finished off with a juvenile king brown, smaller, just as venomous and angry as its dad but twice as fast.

Got struck at a couple of times, but survived to tell the tale.

Gotta love you Aussies. The second most deadly land snake in the world and what do you call it? "Brown snake". Give me a mamba any day, at least it sounds impressive when you tell people your war story :-D

How big was the adult king? Were you hooking, gloving or using tongs?

Pat's Van · November 7, 2014

WA Toffee said:
Yep, blue tongues are harmless. They eat small snakes, so are a good thing to have around. This is the cute guy we had on the course yesterday.
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hahaha he's wearing a little hat !

WA Toffee · November 7, 2014

fatshark said:
Gotta love you Aussies. The second most deadly land snake in the world and what do you call it? "Brown snake". Give me a mamba any day, at least it sounds impressive when you tell people your war story :-D

How big was the adult king? Were you hooking, gloving or using tongs?

Can also call it a Pilbara Cobra which sounds more impressive. It's the same family and also rears up its neck and flares it. Must admit, when it first reared up and tried to bite me, I thought what the hell am I doing here :eek:

It was about 1.5 metres and I had to keep getting in front of it with a big bag and use a prod to encourage it to go in

fatshark · November 7, 2014

WA Toffee said:
Can also call it a Pilbara Cobra which sounds more impressive. It's the same family and also rears up its neck and flares it. Must admit, when it first reared up and tried to bite me, I thought what the hell am I doing here

It was about 1.5 metres and I had to keep getting in front of it with a big bag and use a prod to encourage it to go in

Good on you. Any pics?

Here the guys that do call-outs like a nice long piece of PVC pipe that is closed off at one end or leads into a bag. Amazing how fast a snake will bolt down the nice dark pipe first chance he gets. Then they screw on the lid and everything is sorted.

I'd soil myself for sure if I had to catch any Aussie elapid. When do you graduate to free-handling inland taipans?

Groucho · November 7, 2014

Man to be eaten alive by snake, while wearing a 'snake proof' outfit. FFS!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02b86cx

A man is going to be eaten alive by a snake for a TV programme. Paul Rosolie, who's described as a naturalist filmmaker, will wear a snake-proof suit and feed himself to anaconda. The programme for the Discovery Channel has already proved controversial.

Zoologist Jules Howard said: "I can't believe we live in world where we are sat here talking about a man who is voluntarily donning a suit and wanting to get eaten by a snake."

WA Toffee · November 7, 2014

fatshark said:
Good on you. Any pics?

Here the guys that do call-outs like a nice long piece of PVC pipe that is closed off at one end or leads into a bag. Amazing how fast a snake will bolt down the nice dark pipe first chance he gets. Then they screw on the lid and everything is sorted.

I'd soil myself for sure if I had to catch any Aussie elapid. When do you graduate to free-handling inland taipans?

i've got a video of it slithering on top of my desk, coming within 10cm of my hand, will see if I can upload it tomorrow. For some strange reason I wasn't scared. He also put a death adder in front of me and a python round my neck.
Happy not to come across the taipan, thank you