Thread: Snake Stories?

Snake Story 3.
Title: The Olive Python & the Rottweiler.

In Doomadgee in the 90's there was only 3-4 Police in town, as I had to go to the store when the alarums went off by myself I always had a Guard Dog to go with me. Not bad for home protection as well.
Our Bull Mastiff X died, he had been an excellent dog, so I bought a fully trained 62kg Rottweiler as my new security assistant.

Now, this was 1 huge, mean scary dog, didn't bark because it wasn't scared of anything & was extremely well trained for it's job. Would attack on command or if it thought there was any sort of threat, would go nuts in thunder storms because it thought the thunder was gun fire. Great dog then.

We had the Rottweiler 2 or 3 weeks & were still getting to know him, we were in the house cooking dinner & he was on the back veranda.
Out of the blue SWMBO heard a strange noise, she says she thinks she heard the dog, strange, it has never made a sound.
She goes to look through the back window to see what's going on.

That's when the commotion started.

The dog was attacking the biggest Olive Python I've ever seen & the Python was putting up a bloody good fight.

So, I go out to try & get the Python off the dog or the dog off the Python.

After several minutes of nearly getting my legs bitten off I finally have my hands mostly around the Pythons neck & the Python is mostly around my leg.

All good you would think except the dog is still attacking the Python where it is wound around my leg, this is making the Python squeeze my leg really really hard.

I start yelling at SWMBO to grab the ****ing dog before I lose a leg.
As I have said the dog was 62kg of pure muscle with 4 legs - SWMBO was 52kg of small, fit woman with 2 legs who wasn't real sure of the dog. Give her her due & it was 1 hell of a struggle but she managed to semi-control the dog.

So, I'm sitting on the veranda trying to extradite my leg & now waist from the grip of a really large & annoyed Olive Python whilst holding it's neck with 1 hand, those things are strong.
Meanwhile SWMBO is holding 1 super protective, salivating & agro Rottweiler that lunges at the snake every time it moves.
It took me quite a while to more or less straighten the snake out because I had 1 eye constantly on the dog but eventually I managed to get the snake off the veranda & into some long grass near the river.

After all that the dog got a treat & a good pat, despite the fact I thought he was going to kill me, he had protected the house - sort of, & SWMBO & I went inside to a burnt dinner & collapsed.

Jonesfam

PS Had that dog (Tyson) for many years & he got me out of trouble more than once.
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It was a hot and humid day.I just returned from a gig, put my banjo case on the floor, opened it to air it before I put it away,and went into the kitchen to make a cuppa.Then I heard the sound of a badly played violin. When I went to investigate I saw a snake slowly slithering over the strings. I grabbed a broom and a 22, swept the snake out on to the verandah and shot it. Some people said I should have shot the banjo instead.
(This was a long time ago when owning a 22 and killing snakes was common practice).
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Originally Posted by jonesfam

Snake Story 3.
Title: The Olive Python & the Rottweiler.

In Doomadgee in the 90's there was only 3-4 Police in town, as I had to go to the store when the alarums went off by myself I always had a Guard Dog to go with me. Not bad for home protection as well.
Our Bull Mastiff X died, he had been an excellent dog, so I bought a fully trained 62kg Rottweiler as my new security assistant.

Now, this was 1 huge, mean scary dog, didn't bark because it wasn't scared of anything & was extremely well trained for it's job. Would attack on command or if it thought there was any sort of threat, would go nuts in thunder storms because it thought the thunder was gun fire. Great dog then.

We had the Rottweiler 2 or 3 weeks & were still getting to know him, we were in the house cooking dinner & he was on the back veranda.
Out of the blue SWMBO heard a strange noise, she says she thinks she heard the dog, strange, it has never made a sound.
She goes to look through the back window to see what's going on.

That's when the commotion started.

The dog was attacking the biggest Olive Python I've ever seen & the Python was putting up a bloody good fight.

So, I go out to try & get the Python off the dog or the dog off the Python.

After several minutes of nearly getting my legs bitten off I finally have my hands mostly around the Pythons neck & the Python is mostly around my leg.

All good you would think except the dog is still attacking the Python where it is wound around my leg, this is making the Python squeeze my leg really really hard.

I start yelling at SWMBO to grab the ****ing dog before I lose a leg.
As I have said the dog was 62kg of pure muscle with 4 legs - SWMBO was 52kg of small, fit woman with 2 legs who wasn't real sure of the dog. Give her her due & it was 1 hell of a struggle but she managed to semi-control the dog.

So, I'm sitting on the veranda trying to extradite my leg & now waist from the grip of a really large & annoyed Olive Python whilst holding it's neck with 1 hand, those things are strong.
Meanwhile SWMBO is holding 1 super protective, salivating & agro Rottweiler that lunges at the snake every time it moves.
It took me quite a while to more or less straighten the snake out because I had 1 eye constantly on the dog but eventually I managed to get the snake off the veranda & into some long grass near the river.

After all that the dog got a treat & a good pat, despite the fact I thought he was going to kill me, he had protected the house - sort of, & SWMBO & I went inside to a burnt dinner & collapsed.

Jonesfam

PS Had that dog (Tyson) for many years & he got me out of trouble more than once.
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You win. Everyone needs a dog like Tyson. Food, hugs & pats, a mate for life. Did I mention food?