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Topic: How the day starts!
Posted By: Suave
Subject: How the day starts!
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2018 at 8:54pm
When I wake up in the night and then hear something in my house, it is not like most people where it could be the cat or dog. I assume it is a sloppy gecko pushing something around. Then, as I come a bit further awake, I have to wonder if the noise was a snake, a python, or even worse a cobra maybe eating a gecko. Well, now I can't get back to sleep and seeing as I could do a a bathroom visit if I tried, I get up and look around and find nothing. I will be watching for snakes all day today.

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Posted By: Random
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2018 at 9:01pm
Originally posted by Suave Suave wrote:

When I wake up in the night and then hear something in my house, it is not like most people where it could be the cat or dog. I assume it is a sloppy gecko pushing something around. Then, as I come a bit further awake I have to wonder if the noise was a snake, a python, or even worse a cobra maybe eating a gecko. Well, now I can't get back to sleep and seeing as I could do a a bathroom visit if I tried I get up and look around and find nothing. I will be watching for snakes all day today.


Ah, yes.  What an entertaining part of the world to live in.  Maybe just a banded krait looking for a snack.  Nothing to see here, move along...


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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2018 at 7:06am
Read this an say nothing to see here.  Haha.
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025389-look-at-the-size-of-it-video-shows-huge-snake-captured-in-nakhon-sri-thammarat/" rel="nofollow - https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025389-look-at-the-size-of-it-video-shows-huge-snake-captured-in-nakhon-sri-thammarat/



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Posted By: Random
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2018 at 10:24am
Originally posted by Suave Suave wrote:

Read this an say nothing to see here.  Haha.
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025389-look-at-the-size-of-it-video-shows-huge-snake-captured-in-nakhon-sri-thammarat/" rel="nofollow - https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1025389-look-at-the-size-of-it-video-shows-huge-snake-captured-in-nakhon-sri-thammarat/



Oh, I've been in that neck of the woods once or twice.  Everything creeps, crawls, slithers, slinks, most of it is nasty, everything smells like...jungle, which has it's own smell, and there's a valid technical reason why I never went back.  Apart from not handling heat well anymore; cold I can still do fine, but heat gets to me quickly.  That's why I live in a high desert  Tongue


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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2018 at 9:00pm
http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/7-krabi-king-cobras-reported-one-day-5-captured-released" rel="nofollow - https://www.phuketgazette.net/news/7-krabi-king-cobras-reported-one-day-5-captured-released

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Posted By: Random
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2018 at 9:33pm
Originally posted by Suave Suave wrote:

http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/7-krabi-king-cobras-reported-one-day-5-captured-released" rel="nofollow - https://www.phuketgazette.net/news/7-krabi-king-cobras-reported-one-day-5-captured-released


Oh, pshaw.  When I was there they had BIG dangerous snakes, not little 4 meter babies like that one!  Heck, we used cobras as alarm clocks; bite me at 5:30, if I smack you on the head bite me again at 5:40.  Gosh, those were the days...big dangerous snakes were really BIG and dangerous.  Men were manly, women were womanly...

Wacko

I did mention the valid technical reasons why I haven't been back any time in the last thirty-five years or so, right?  Apart from that being a pretty big puddle to jump...


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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2018 at 10:27pm
http://www.thephuketnews.com/four-metre-king-cobra-caught-in-phuket-second-escapes-66243.php#KjZIyJXhLedwI6IE.97" rel="nofollow - https://www.thephuketnews.com/four-metre-king-cobra-caught-in-phuket-second-escapes-66243.php#KjZIyJXhLedwI6IE.97

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Posted By: lisafox10800
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2018 at 10:29pm
Suave, you've got plenty to work with if you're assigned horror or thriller - truth is stranger than fiction! Smile

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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2018 at 10:40pm
Originally posted by lisafox10800 lisafox10800 wrote:

Suave, you've got plenty to work with if you're assigned horror or thriller - truth is stranger than fiction! Smile


This last one was just a couple of miles from my house!  there is really no winning with the snakes: if it too hot then they come out to find shade or a drink.  If is raining then they come out to find somewhere dry.  I found one going past my front porch the other day, not too big only a yard long, so I have been snake proofing my back screen door that had a bout half and inch space underneath it - bubble wrap does wonders.


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Posted By: Random
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2018 at 10:54am
Originally posted by Suave Suave wrote:

Originally posted by lisafox10800 lisafox10800 wrote:

Suave, you've got plenty to work with if you're assigned horror or thriller - truth is stranger than fiction! Smile


This last one was just a couple of miles from my house!  there is really no winning with the snakes: if it too hot then they come out to find shade or a drink.  If is raining then they come out to find somewhere dry.  I found one going past my front porch the other day, not too big only a yard long, so I have been snake proofing my back screen door that had a bout half and inch space underneath it - bubble wrap does wonders.


In Thailand it's ALWAYS too hot, raining, or both.  I guess this is the point.  Wake up, de-snake the bedroom (is it possible to snakeproof a dwelling there?), de-snake a path to the bathroom...

So what took you to Snakeland anyway?


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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2018 at 11:14am
Originally posted by Random Random wrote:

Originally posted by Suave Suave wrote:

Originally posted by lisafox10800 lisafox10800 wrote:

Suave, you've got plenty to work with if you're assigned horror or thriller - truth is stranger than fiction! Smile


This last one was just a couple of miles from my house!  there is really no winning with the snakes: if it too hot then they come out to find shade or a drink.  If is raining then they come out to find somewhere dry.  I found one going past my front porch the other day, not too big only a yard long, so I have been snake proofing my back screen door that had a bout half and inch space underneath it - bubble wrap does wonders.


In Thailand it's ALWAYS too hot, raining, or both.  I guess this is the point.  Wake up, de-snake the bedroom (is it possible to snakeproof a dwelling there?), de-snake a path to the bathroom...

So what took you to Snakeland anyway?


Never 100%, but you can cut down the odds.  I try and turn on lights when I am going somewhere in the house, but you get pretty blasé after awhile, if you move slowly they have a chance to get away from you, they are much more afraid of you. . . but they do move quickly.  Some friends found a green tree snake looking out from where they keep the coffee cups last week when they went to make coffee, they are harmless and really a beautiful little critter when they are not in your cupboard looking at you.  I am living the life of the rich American in a foreign land - well, without being an asshole - or being that rich.


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Posted By: MattrickBT
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2018 at 12:58pm
Could be worse. You could have started your day by planting both feet in a pile of broken glass.


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Posted By: Zblugg
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2018 at 1:01pm
Originally posted by MattrickBT MattrickBT wrote:

Could be worse. You could have started your day by planting both feet in a pile of broken glass.

And the broken glass is from the whisky glass that King Cobra was drinking, waiting for you to wake up. But he lost his composure, good old K.C., and slammed the glass upon the very ground to wake you up. 

Mattrick's right. There ARE worse ways of waking up (besides Folger's in your cup).


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Posted By: Scribs
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2018 at 2:18pm
When I think of King Cobras, or really any snake in general, I’m reminded of the Imgur post/list/whatever you call it where they were giving animals their ‘proper’ names. They had a picture of a cobra with the name “Danger Noodle” Seems appropriate.

But here in the states, particularly where I live, we have one important little smarmy individual we have to look out for. Science calls him the Diamondback rattlesnake, Imgur calls him the Audible Nope Rope.



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Posted By: MattrickBT
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2018 at 1:13am
Originally posted by Zblugg Zblugg wrote:

Originally posted by MattrickBT MattrickBT wrote:

Could be worse. You could have started your day by planting both feet in a pile of broken glass.

And the broken glass is from the whisky glass that King Cobra was drinking, waiting for you to wake up. But he lost his composure, good old K.C., and slammed the glass upon the very ground to wake you up. 

Mattrick's right. There ARE worse ways of waking up (besides Folger's in your cup).


There was no king cobra in my past. I just broke a drinking glass in my sleep and woke up in a horrible, horrible way. I still went bowling though!


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Posted By: Scribs
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2018 at 4:07am
Originally posted by MattrickBT MattrickBT wrote:

Originally posted by Zblugg Zblugg wrote:

Originally posted by MattrickBT MattrickBT wrote:

Could be worse. You could have started your day by planting both feet in a pile of broken glass.


And the broken glass is from the whisky glass that King Cobra was drinking, waiting for you to wake up. But he lost his composure, good old K.C., and slammed the glass upon the very ground to wake you up. 

Mattrick's right. There ARE worse ways of waking up (besides Folger's in your cup).



There was no king cobra in my past. I just broke a drinking glass in my sleep and woke up in a horrible, horrible way. I still went bowling though!




You just THINK there was no king cobra.....






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Posted By: MattrickBT
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2018 at 7:34am
If there was a King Cobra in Canada, the shock of that alone would probably kill me.


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Posted By: Random
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2018 at 1:25pm
Originally posted by MattrickBT MattrickBT wrote:

If there was a King Cobra in Canada, the shock of that alone would probably kill me.


It was nice knowing you.

You can watch the feeding at 11:45 AM Saturdays.

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Posted By: MattrickBT
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2018 at 4:35pm
Originally posted by Random Random wrote:

Originally posted by MattrickBT MattrickBT wrote:

If there was a King Cobra in Canada, the shock of that alone would probably kill me.


It was nice knowing you.

You can watch the feeding at 11:45 AM Saturdays.

https://reptilia.org/feeding-schedule/" rel="nofollow - https://reptilia.org/feeding-schedule/


Zoos don't count. I mean, there are Kangaroos and Rhinos and Elephants in the zoo. But they ain't out in the wild. I mean, if they escaped, they would be.


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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2018 at 10:46pm
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029171-woman-gets-a-bathroom-fright-as-snake-flees-the-scene/" rel="nofollow - http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1029171-woman-gets-a-bathroom-fright-as-snake-flees-the-scene/

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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2018 at 5:10am
In my last place the landlord had two dogs and two cats with orange eyes, really startling, and they would team up and corner snakes now and then and we would grab a rake and toss the snake over the fence.

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2018/03/13/pet-cat-fights-off-king-cobra-in-trang/" rel="nofollow - http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2018/03/13/pet-cat-fights-off-king-cobra-in-trang/

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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2018 at 6:41am
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1430502/king-cobra-caught-in-songkhla-home#cxrecs_s" rel="nofollow - http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1430502/king-cobra-caught-in-songkhla-home#cxrecs_s

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Posted By: NadiaS
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2018 at 8:27am
I don't think I could cope with snakes! 

I live in Ireland so any snakes here are captive and pets. My husband had a pet corn snake which was a rare breed as it was black and grey instead of red/yellow and she was beautiful to look at it but how she moved really freaked me out.

I don't know what I would do it one was facing me in the morning before coffee!! 


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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2018 at 9:21am
Originally posted by NadiaS NadiaS wrote:

I don't think I could cope with snakes! 

I live in Ireland so any snakes here are captive and pets. My husband had a pet corn snake which was a rare breed as it was black and grey instead of red/yellow and she was beautiful to look at it but how she moved really freaked me out.

I don't know what I would do it one was facing me in the morning before coffee!! 


You could do what I do in that case - scream and run away like a little girl!  LOL


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Posted By: NadiaS
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2018 at 11:31am
Originally posted by Suave Suave wrote:

Originally posted by NadiaS NadiaS wrote:

I don't think I could cope with snakes! 

I live in Ireland so any snakes here are captive and pets. My husband had a pet corn snake which was a rare breed as it was black and grey instead of red/yellow and she was beautiful to look at it but how she moved really freaked me out.

I don't know what I would do it one was facing me in the morning before coffee!! 


You could do what I do in that case - scream and run away like a little girl!  LOL

I think I would be more of a throw whatever I can at them type of girl. LOL Nadia sees snake - screams - throws the coffee pot at snake - runs away


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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2018 at 5:21am
http://thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1030251-it-sounds-hilarious-%C2%A0but-it-wasnt-funny-for-me-says-thai-man-after-huge-king-cobra-shock/" rel="nofollow - https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1030251-it-sounds-hilarious-%C2%A0but-it-wasnt-funny-for-me-says-thai-man-after-huge-king-cobra-shock/

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Posted By: Dekay
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2018 at 10:48pm
I'm half Thai. My father is deathly afraid of snakes. I don't seem to share that fear. He freaked out and stomped a poor grass snake to death as if it could kill him. It was water snakes that scared him the most in Thailand.

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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2018 at 11:40am
Originally posted by Dekay Dekay wrote:

I'm half Thai. My father is deathly afraid of snakes. I don't seem to share that fear. He freaked out and stomped a poor grass snake to death as if it could kill him. It was water snakes that scared him the most in Thailand.


Haha.  From what I have seen of the Thai people they almost never kill the snakes, though there was a cobra that got in a little girls bed not too long ago and bit her and she died.  The snake was still in the bed in the morning so the parents beat it to death - hard to blame them for that.
   I have had one meeting with a water snake, well at least a swimming snake.  I wandered up to the edge of a pond and one must have been hiding in the grass at my feet and it took off across the pond with its head sticking outa the water, scared me and it I think, lol - fair size too.
   On my motor bike touring I have come across many cobras on the roads and I always pull my feet up as high as I can when passing as they always slither with their heads a few inches off the ground when they see you coming and I have seen video of them taking strikes at people passing on scooters.



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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2018 at 6:08am
Well, found a snake in my house!  Scared the sh*t outa me when I tried to close the door and something moved really fast and I saw the back end of a snake disappear into the corner behind a cabinet, it was not a real big one at all, but at the time....  It happened so fast I barely got out a little girl squeal, but did get a good jump happening.  Shut everything in the house and made sure it could not get out of the room and went for my Thai landlord who made short work of it and left the mess for me to clean up, though they did take the snake body with them. Just a tree snake, but still it was a shock.

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Posted By: Jhill
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2018 at 1:54pm
I would have died from panic. Glad you're not snake chow!


Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2018 at 11:40pm
I wish I did not watch this.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/08/09/massive-python-slithers-up-australian-mans-home-in-shocking-video.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/08/09/massive-python-slithers-up-australian-mans-home-in-shocking-video.html


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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2018 at 11:49pm
Here is a link to a picture of what was left after my landlord took it out in my place - they usually don't kill them, but I guess the smaller ones are just too quick for the non snake catchers.
http://drive.google.com/file/d/1J7GJ6FXzDcm4CZnf95XHlTRx6Gw_OlPb/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J7GJ6FXzDcm4CZnf95XHlTRx6Gw_OlPb/view?usp=sharing



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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 5:59am

Another snake in my house on boxing day! Only half the size of the other one. (see pic link below)A Copperhead Racer got in, has the same venom as a cobra but no fangs to inject it, if bitten you get swollen and red around the bite.

Funny how this happened - the next door neighbor started burning, again, so I started shutting windows on that side and the back door. When I went to close the back door it got hard to close so I looked at the door jam and there he was - just pure luck I got him. He was alive when I took him out as I did not want blood all over the place this time, but not much of a mover due to the crushed spine.

I decided to re-stuff the bottom of the door and tried opening the security, iron, door and it fell on the ground, lol, hinges rusted right through. So, now the door has been taken away to rebuild it and I have tape across the wooden door till I get everything squared away.

Snakes in the house really mess up your whole safe place thing.


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Posted By: bleustick
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 6:36am
Agh. Snakes. I jump out of my skin and can't sleep if I think I hear a mouse. (And I have cats, who swiftly eat the occasional mouse that attempts refuge here. And I've even owned and loved rats before. I don't know why the thought of a tiny field mouse sneaking in bed with me wigs me out.) I love snakes, as do my reptile-loving kiddos, but I can't imagine dealing with your situation well Shocked. There are parts here in the States that scorpions are a bit of a nuisance, and I'm not crazy about that idea either.

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Posted By: Suave
Date Posted: 31 Dec 2018 at 10:00pm
Haha, have my security door back - nicely repainted and with new hinges. 

As the bubble wrap stuffed under the door did not work out so well, and as I never open it, I have duct taped around its edges.  Now, I can leave the back door open for the ventilation without worry, I hope.


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Posted By: Jhill
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2019 at 12:51pm
OH my gosh, Suave, your IRL snake stories give me nightmares!




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