SNAKES IN YOUR BACKYARD ANYONE?

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Originally Posted by Ferret

Been there, done that and $2500 - $2600 seems to be the standard figure.

It's cats 3, snakes 0 at our house and the wallet is very much lighter as a result. Though 1 cat did go cold turkey, no point administering anti venom. By the time we found it was about 1:30am and it was comatose. Put in a corner of the room thinking I deal with a dead cat in the morning. At 3:0am it was up bouncing off walls like drunk. By the morning it had retired to the linen cupboard and sat in there 4 days before emerging. Had a funny walk and some liver damage but even managed to shake that off after ~12 months. Lived to ripe old age of 18Ys.

The vet says cats are fairly resistant, what would kill a dog in minutes cats can sometimes survive.

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3x horses in the paddock where they are now... 1x goat last year, at friends farm...

Family lost a few dozen horses in 20 years... Sheep, goats, calves and dogs and cats...(We lived in Tiger snake alley)..

Goats handle it better and if you get to them in time, they survive... Big shot of vitamin C...

Dogs and Cats, we dont count... Had my best pup drop dead from Tiger snake, didnt know the snake would come that close to the house... Seen 6 or 7 cats kill a tiger snake, 3 didnt survive the fight but the cats won overall...

The stallions are the worst with snakes, they venture up for a smell and get bitten on the nose...

We dont blame the snakes, its there territory and they keep the mice and rat numbers down, but even so, I dont want to be bitten so I show them respect...

Neighbors cat is a stray she picked up as a kitten from a state forest, it has been bitten by snake's she reckons at least 3 maybe 4 times, she just wraps him up in a blanket to keep him warm and a few days later he is back tom catting it.

brown's, red belly's etc have found they normally see ya and if you back off they do.

Tiger snakes but they are aggressive bastards esp if your near a nest,

best snake repellent i have found is get a flock of magpies to move in and dont have anywhere for them to hide ,
now all i need to encourage the Kookaburra's to move in as well.

oh and if you have chooks you will have mice and mice bring snakes

The Maggie idea is easy, just feed them... They stop swooping too and they love mince... It dont take long before you can start hand feeding out of your hand, they can be very gentle with humans, but to the juveniles, they are nasty...

"In your back yard"?....a friend of mine had a snake, don't know what it was, but He kept it in his house. It wasn't poisonous, but it could bite, some kind of python I think. It used to sleep/reside under his couch, and he used to feed it dead mice amongst other things. From time to time He would place it in a tree to "give it a bit of air". Anyway, on one occasion, while it was in the tree, it bit him,...not a problem to him He said, because He reckoned He'd surprised it side on, & the snake had been surprised & was simply defending itself?...that's what my friend said anyway.
I've actually been in his house with the snake under the couch,....a bit wierd, but it did seem perfectly happy!
Eventually it got too big, and He had to get rid of it. I have a feeling it wasn't legal?
Pickles.

Got a few tiger snakes across the road on the creek so assume they come over my garden and rock retaining walls. Not sure if the blue tongue I saw in the rocks tonight shares mind you? Snakes a very helpful at keeping mice and rats away. On the noise bit. Had about twenty on a timber floor at a club in Heidelberg once. Lots of big guys all sitting all had their feet held high! ( if they bit the mug of a cat killing all the birds I would not cry but no such luck)


The Snake gent jumped up and down on the timber floor yelling like a banshee. Zero reaction from any of the snakes.

I did lose a hourse once in Central Vic. Not blaming the snake as if some one stood on me I might get grumpy too.

Ive grown up around tiger snakes, between 3 and 4 ft, heard of a few at 5 ft...

But the biggest shock was when living just out of Bridgetown...

I spotted a black looking snake going under the horse float, not a drama except, the front was going past left rear tyre and the tail was yet to past right front tyre...

Being so close to the house with young children and so big, I emptied the .22 into it, didnt even flinch so I asked the stepdaughter to get the 30/30 and cut it into 6 pieces...

That was the biggest Tiger Snake I have ever seen...

But I did get shown an article of one at Hester Hill, just nth of Bridgetown... Farmer shot it to pieces, it had eaten his sheep dog...

Its the females that get large, they produce live young...

Its one reason I live 40 k south of that area, I like the little snakes better...