which Species of Snake/Python

[Disco_owner]

Hi guys;

I suspect this is a carpet Python , can anyone please confirm this ?

http://www.aulro.com/app/uploads/13705/Snake_1.JPG

[Treads]

Carpet Python

[Disco_owner]

Carpet Python


I Knew it was , Just needed to confirm it , friends Dad discovered it when gardening at 21:30 last night :eek:

[Treads]

I Knew it was , Just needed to confirm it , friends Dad discovered it when gardening at 21:30 last night :eek:

Better him than me :eek:

I'm fascinated by snakes.............on TV :D

[Lotz-A-Landies]

I hope there is no intention to harm it! They are non-venomous and are great at eliminating rodents and the odd bird.

Talking about eliminating the odd bird - a friend's family had a feed and grain store, where they had a pet carpet python to keep down the mice in the warehouse. Between the warehouse and the shop/office out front there was a chute to deliver the bags of oats etc for sale.

One day this elderly lady was buying some bird seed and was looking for change in her hand bag. The snake heard the rustling and slid down the chute to investigate, the lady still finding change felt something on her shoulder and turned to see the head of this python at eye level peering into the handbag also. The old lady took a turn and had several days in hospital, so I guess that's one odd bird who survived.

Diana

[Bigbjorn]

Its name is Trouser.

[Bushwanderer]

SNIP
One day this elderly lady was buying some bird seed and was looking for change in her hand bag. The snake heard the rustling and slid down the chute to investigate, the lady still finding change felt something on her shoulder and turned to see the head of this python at eye level peering into the handbag also. The old lady took a turn and had several days in hospital, so I guess that's one odd bird who survived.

Diana

Sorry for the odd bird, but :D:D:D:D:D

[GuyG]

They also take possums and flying fox - fruit bats - it got one from our mango tree earlier in the year - swallowed it whole wings and all - was wanting to see it actually swallow the thing but left it too long between watchings

[Disco_owner]

I hope there is no intention to harm it! They are non-venomous and are great at eliminating rodents and the odd bird.

Talking about eliminating the odd bird - a friend's family had a feed and grain store, where they had a pet carpet python to keep down the mice in the warehouse. Between the warehouse and the shop/office out front there was a chute to deliver the bags of oats etc for sale.

One day this elderly lady was buying some bird seed and was looking for change in her hand bag. The snake heard the rustling and slid down the chute to investigate, the lady still finding change felt something on her shoulder and turned to see the head of this python at eye level peering into the handbag also. The old lady took a turn and had several days in hospital, so I guess that's one odd bird who survived.

Diana

Absolutely not;

Post Discovery , A Policeman Turned up last night and arrested the Python , No handcuffs :D placed in a Bag and took it away , supposedly he didn't know what type of Snake/Python it was, well I would have thought any law enforcement officer or anyone for that matter who is handling a reptile such as a this Carpet Python not being aware of type of species would be silly enough to do so ? but from what my friend tells me he didn't know when "asked" , "what type of snake it was" ?:eek:

[scarry]

we had one in the house not long ago...appears it got in up the duct for the a/c pipes& then made its way along the top of an internal brick wall.we were watching a movie & it fell down onto the floor....it tried to get across to an internal exposed beam& lost its grip.

i have never seen the handbrake move so fast:D:D

anyway i picked it up by its tail & with the help of my son dropped it in a pillow case.:D

watched the rest of the movie & then went to the local state forest & let it go:)

it was only about 4ft long but was keen to bite

[long stroke]

We keep and breed carpet pythons they are great snakes.
Dad is also a member of wires (wildlife rescue)
and we rescue alot of snakes a year from peoples back yards and houses,once we caught about six carpet pythons mating in a guys roof:eek:
We have a local carpet python hanging around he is about 10ft and we found him once with a full grown brush turkey in his gut:eek:

CHEERS TIM.

[p38arover]

we found him once with a full grone brush turkey in his gut:eek:

I'd be groning, too, with a fully grown brush turkey in my gut! :eek:

:D

[long stroke]

I'd be groning, too, with a fully grown brush turkey in my gut! :eek:

:D

Oh oh i'll fix it right away:D

[101RRS]

When I was a kid in the 60s living in the northern suburbs of Wollongong we used to go hunting snakes on the escarpment - the Woonona pet shop would pay us $1 a foot for non-poisonous snakes and $6 a foot for poisonous snakes - we used to catch diamond pythons until Mum found out we were storing them under the house. Also caught a few red bellies as well until one of the other kids got bit - did get $30 for a big Goanna from the then Appin reptile park.

Oh those were the days before greenies and getting smarter - these days I wouldn't even consider going near a snake - leave them alone. My mum who is now in her 80s has even had a change oh heart - she has a couple of tree snakes in the back yard as well as a few bluetongues and does not get the pest man in too kill the cockies and other bugs in case the sprays kill off the reptiles or they eat a insect full of poison.

Garry