Thread: Carpet Python in Gum Tree - discuss

Originally Posted by Ralph1Malph

I thought the pics were ok for a guy who sets every camera setting to 'auto'.

I thought we only had to discuss the pix!

Leave it there, it may catch a few of the cockatoo and therefore leave the tree and your house in one piece. And not cause a racket all day.

We have red-belly blacks at our farm, and leave them alone because they eat the field mice, plus baby tiger and brown snakes.

My neice's kids are well trained to watch out for and identify the snakes, then keep clear.

Much rather have a python, but m. nature has not seen it that way!

Taste like chicken dont they
You will need a big pan to roast it it
As a few have said,its harmless,and even worth having around,wouldnt mind one here to harvest a few cats
Andrew

We were camped at Silent Grove off the GRR last year when a 3 metre Olive Python slid through one of our sites and the lady trod on it.
She then runs screaming to me about a snake in the camp so as the snake busters are a long way from there I went for a look and declared it harmless just as the normal "shovel wielding bash it to death brigade" arrived.
Then the ranger appeared and told the throthing throng that there was a 20K fine for killing a snake in the park and that quietened them down a bit.
After some had had a hold of it or a stroke he took it away but said later it had a habit of coming into camps at night and it was lucky it hadn't met death by shovel before.
I like snakes and will avoid running them over if I can go round without swerving and possibly losing control.
Alan.

Originally Posted by ATH

I like snakes and will avoid running them over if I can go round without swerving and possibly losing control.
Alan.

Thats the very point!
I have nothing against most critters but a little bit of NIMBYitis seems to overpower the facts.
At least for this critter it is safe as most of the neighbors have had visits before, this is our first so as long as it moves on like a short term guest, all will be good.

Ralph

Originally Posted by garrycol

There was an article last week in Qld where a big python did get hold of a 4yo kid and had him all coiled up - snake was a bit miffed of being deprived of its human dinner and bit the rescuers as few times but all ended well for snake and 4yo.

Garry

more than likely the snake was disturbed and attacked as a defensive reaction, biting him on the leg and coiling around the little boy.

This is quite common when handling pythons (especially extricating them from difficult spots). If you are bitten by a python, try not to flinch and pull away as that is when your flesh is torn by their teeth, simply relax and blow into their face until they let go.

If on the other hand it's a venomous snake try putting your head between you legs and kissing your posterior goodbye unless versed in first aid and the P.I.T

I get such a thrill when I see a snake (or any timid australian wild life) particularly now that I am in SE QLD as most of the hunters have been killed off by cane toads, we have a golden tree snake that lives in teh meter box and I make sure that the person coming to read it doesn't kill it.

Originally Posted by s7000

I had a similar dilemma a few years back when I was living at my mums. We had a 2+m diamond python make it's way into our yard for a few days. ...

Whiteman's the stock feed and grain store in Camden a few years ago had a diamond python in the warehouse to keep the mice and rats down, much better than a cat. Occasionally it would visit the retail shopfront via the shute used to deliver bags to the front.

It met it's demise at the hands of the mindless shovel brigade too.