Thread: Carpet Python in Gum Tree - discuss

Originally Posted by Ralph1Malph

Carpet Python in Gum Tree - discuss

I think you need to adjust the camera exposure to allow for the backlighting of the snake!

i'm sure you will come up with some sort of crafty idea to keep him out of your place

What a ripper, if you do not have a food source around your home it will generally not hang around. It is like any other creature, food, water shelter. So unless you have possums, rates, birds etc living in your house, shed, S111, it will move on. It won’t hurt you so give up on the shotgun idea. Might like your cat or lap dog if you have one. If you want it to move, make noise or tap in the opposite direction to where you want it to go. If you tap the tree under it, it will go higher and of course the opposite. If you play with it, it will get upset and the bite will bleed like you would not believe as they have an anticoagulant in their saliva, their small teeth are designed for food not to come back out, so getting them to let go is a trick. Unless hurt, very very placid and great to have around.

yeah i urge you not to kill the poor thing...

it will move on as posted above.

only reason it would move into your roof/shed/house would be if you had rats or mice in there.

but if you do find it in your shed or wherever just leave it alone and call the snake guy again.
he should come get it.
haha my bet is he didn't want to climb a tree after a snake.

yep, dont panic about that one, usually non fatal to humans and only likey to go your pet cat/rat/minature dog.

leave him be.

put your neighbors shotgun away, snakes are fully protected fauna. There was a post the other day about a brown snake sun baking minding it's own buiness and some one killed it.

Earlier in the year I found a diamond python caught in my neighbours bird nettling - it was quite placid and I was able to release it without drama even though it had obviously caught a bird near the netting. As my front yard was heavy with vegetation I just released it there and I assume it is happily still there hunting rats, mice and birds.

Beautiful creatures - let it find its own way - though keep your little kids, dogs and cats away. 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

Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!

put your neighbors shotgun away, snakes are fully protected fauna.

I wasn't really gunna shoot it, more poetic liscence to keep my kids and wife alert to the fact that I am descended from hunters not gatherers!

I'll leave it well alone except for the fact that as earlier posted, we have possums, rakes, birds and all sorts of critters as we live on the fringe.

Apparently it has been around the street for ages so it is kind of a local resident.

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

Ralph