Identifying a snake

**DeanoH** · 2nd April 2014, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by gusthedog

So by that rational, I'm sure you'd kill all the bees in your backyard too as they kill more people each year than snakes.................

Yeah but snakes are scarier

and honey tastes nicer.

Crikey, if I followed that rationale the first thing to go would be the tractor

.

Kills and maims more than bees, snakes, box jelly fish and crocodiles combined..

Deano

**Redback** · 2nd April 2014, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by Pickles2

Jeez, must be some cat.
We had a farm raised tabby for 19 yrs, & he was catching Possums until just before he died, he'd bring 'em to the front step, separate the head from the body & leave 'em there,...some were considerably bigger than him,....but I don't think he'd come off so well against a snake!
Pickles.

**101RRS** · 2nd April 2014, 12:13 PM

They said this snake at the footy was a Brown Snake but certainly the brown snakes I have seen do not look like this one - any ideas.

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**ugu80** · 2nd April 2014, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by garrycol

They said this snake at the footy was a Brown Snake but certainly the brown snakes I have seen do not look like this one - any ideas.

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Not a good photo, if not a brown maybe a keelback!

**ugu80** · 2nd April 2014, 12:45 PM

For DeanoH:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqf1d-8IccI

Enjoy.

**DeanoH** · 2nd April 2014, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by ugu80

.................................... but that the majority of bite victims were trying to kill the attacking snake is verified by ambulance and hospital statistics and by the research ..................................

Certainly no argument here, it stands to reason that you've got more chance of being bit if you're trying to belt a snake with a lump of 4 X 2 than if you leave 'em alone.
This is also why the recommendation of 'identify' the snake in snake bite response was retracted as single bite incidents were being turned into multiple casualty incidents.

But when you've got kids and live in a rural area, especially near water, the snake mortality rate is necessarily high. Where I live copperheads and tiger snakes are prevalent and whilst copperheads are venomous they are not particularly aggressive whereas tigers are quite venomous and can be very aggressive, especially early in the season.
When it comes to tigers don't believe the old 'the snake will go the other way if confronted' myth, it's total bull****. Tigers will go you because they're particularly 'narky' and so are not to be tolerated especially where children are.
Sorry, but that's the way it is. I don't kill animals for fun or recreation (except fish and I'm not very good at it

) but if they're a risk to me or mine then the choice is simple.
On the good side though, after a couple of years of cutting hay the copperhead population was reduced to zero.

The hay rake made a bit of a mess of this one.

I've found that once the 'original' copperhead snake population was gone (our place was vacant for 20 years or so) they don't return. Haven't seen one for 20 years which is good for both snake and man.

The tigers on the other hand don't seem to stray far from the creek which is over the road and far enough away not to be a problem.

Deano

**d2dave** · 2nd April 2014, 01:08 PM

I'm with you on this one Deano. I don't go looking for them but if they stray into my yard they meet Mr shovel.

I have pet cats and dogs which I love. My neighbor has lost many a dog to them.

**Roverlord off road spares** · 2nd April 2014, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by d2dave

I'm with you on this one Deano. I don't go looking for them but if they stray into my yard they meet Mr shovel.

I have pet cats and dogs which I love. My neighbor has lost many a dog to them.

Re shovels which is the preferred weapon of euthanising?
If I walk into the local Bunnings and go to the garden tool section and find a expert staff member that isn't chatting to another staffer or hiding from customers. Will they have the correct knowledge? do we go the long handle post hole digger shovel, a shovel, a garden spade, fibreglass or wooden handle, just buying a wheel barrow the other day was daunting.

**d2dave** · 2nd April 2014, 09:49 PM

The shovel itself does not really matter, so long as it has a nice long handle

**scarry** · 2nd April 2014, 10:16 PM

Originally Posted by jonesfam

Looks like a brown tree snake.
Fairly quick, harmless & have the look of a Taipan about them only thinner & smaller. They will go anywhere for a frog.
Jonesfam

Not that harmless,has venom,but as they are rear fanged,a bite is often venom less.
We had one as a pet when we were kids,until it escaped and disappeared.Snakes seem to push through the tiniest of holes to get somewhere.

The owner of the property we go to in western Qld used a piece of wire as a whip to clean up those browns.
Worked well,he was never bitten,was on the property for 75yrs.
They can get to over 2meters long,and are very quick.

At our place we get many whip snakes,green tree,carpet,and small eyed.just leave them alone,let them do their thing,don't cause any issues.

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