Snake people, get in here!

[Amarok]

Seen plenty of snakes on my travels.Remember this one time i was in the Australian outback with a group of my fellow  Inuit and group of aborigines were all on a beach drinking a talking around a fire  .When we looked over and saw this large snake  trying to creep up to our fire and was happy to see us there .So one of the aborigines takes out this machete causally lops the snakes head off then skins it then we roasted it on the fire and eat it .

[SaStrike]

It's a much better pet than fish. So keep it. You'll need more fish though. Much more.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I had a cobra slide into the Holiday Inn pool with one once when our ship was visiting Pattaya Beach, Thailand. The tourists were flipping out. I just kept on eye on it and the pool guy dipped it out and threw it over a fence, into another hotel's swimming pool.

My guts would probably turn to pudding.

I woke up with an anaconda in my sleeping bag on trip up a side stream of the Amazon once. Couldn't see what kind it was, and was catching hell for "sleeping through breakfast" when the skipper started nudging a large lump at the bottom of my bag. Slide out quiet-like and went about his business. He had evidently climbed on board via the lines tied to the trees on the bank.

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It's a much better pet than fish. So keep it. You'll need more fish though. Much more.

I found a pedigree cocker spaniel for a lady friend in San Diego. It was in the pound for eating $2,000 worth of koi from the neighbor's pool. (Arsey farsey "garden" apartments.

[The Valkyrie]

Just remember everyone, that the only snake that's a real threat to people is one with an apple.

Especially if it's trying to convince you to eat the apple.

And if you're a woman.

And naked.

And living in a garden.

[vorlon13]

I'm feeling pretty tempted now . . . . .

[Shell B]

My guts would probably turn to pudding.

I woke up with an anaconda in my sleeping bag on trip up a side stream of the Amazon once. Couldn't see what kind it was, and was catching hell for "sleeping through breakfast" when the skipper started nudging a large lump at the bottom of my bag. Slide out quiet-like and went about his business. He had evidently climbed on board via the lines tied to the trees on the bank.

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It's a much better pet than fish. So keep it. You'll need more fish though. Much more.

I found a pedigree cocker spaniel for a lady friend in San Diego. It was in the pound for eating $2,000 worth of koi from the neighbor's pool. (Arsey farsey "garden" apartments.

I’d be less concerned about the anaconda than a cobra, unless I was shorter, weighed less and there was no one else around to dissuade it from eating me.

[Amarok]

I woke up with an anaconda in my sleeping bag on trip up a side stream of the Amazon once. Couldn't see what kind it was, and was catching hell for "sleeping through breakfast" when the skipper started nudging a large lump at the bottom of my bag. Slide out quiet-like and went about his business. He had evidently climbed on board via the lines tied to the trees on the bank.

This isn't a snake story but a friend of my father got killed and eaten  by a polar bear while he was going to the bathroom during an ice fishing trip when i was young . Really scary part is it could have been me as i had to go to the bathroom too but he insist on going first . All i found of him was a blood smear trail and some footprints .

[SaStrike]

This thread is educational. If the head is wider than the neck, it's poison not semen.

[Little lunch]

Yes, that's a cotton mouth. My daughter is super into snakes and we have a snake ID book right here.

It says cotton mouths "have a dark mark from its eye to the edge of its jaw".  

The pictures aren't clear enough to make out if there is banding on it (book says "The cottonmouth has dark crossbands with lighter brown shading in the centre"), but that dark stripe from it's eye to it's jaw is a key ID , and that's clear as day. Call animal control or kill it.  Good luck!

Edit: My daughter begged me to add, please don't kill it.  Call animal control or a local reptile rescuer. :/  I love that kid but she's reptile crazy right now.  Do what you need to keep yourself and your family and pets safe.

Your daughter sounds like a lovely person and I reckon I know where she got that from. :-)

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Anaconda could kill a man, but not swallow him. This makes killing him pointless. But unless there's a snake with antlers there's no points to snakes anyway.

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