A bit freaked about the snake

[FlatandFabulouslyFestive]

Moved to Oz in 2007, severely arachnophobic, did the usual shake shoes, check car visors, never go outside barefoot thing for years but gradually got over it so now I'm pretty blasé. On Christmas Eve DS, wife and baby came over, DS nearly stands on a baby brown snake in the driveway. DH beheaded it with a spade, drama over. BUT, I realised after that if I had seen it I wouldn't have known what it was. Obviously you are not going to go near any snake but the fact that it is one of the world's deadliest snakes and was slithering round my garden has freaked me out a bit.

Beheading is a horrible death for a snake because it can take up to 30 minutes for the brain to die.

This. Think of it as a live animal that has had most of its body cut away. And it also remains dangerous to handle.

Christ they're protected? What for?

@jillypill

Killed in a dreadful way that would have taken it ages to die

Off topic but i thought beheading was a quick death?

Reptiles such as snakes and crocodiles don't react the same way as mammals, they can take a considerable amount of time to even become unconscious and they are in pain the whole time. They will continue to strike at moving objects for some time after the injury.

This is why I couldn't live in Oz, or even visit. Spiders, snake, sharks, crocodiles, stonefish, it's bloody endless!

On the positive side, even a walk to the shops can be an adventure.

@Changi 😆

I have a male pen friend who lives on the outskirts of Melbourne, and he has mentioned a few times, about finding brown snakes on his driveway or lawn. I think people are supposed to get in touch with a professional snake handler to collect the snake. Most people where he lives will have the telephone number handy as this happens quite a lot.

I am not sure what happens if the handler is delayed at all, I think people try and throw something over the snake,to stop it slithering away and going elsewhere.

@Thelnebriati didn't know that so thank you

Killing a snake simply for being there??? Wtf? Oh let's just behead you because you were where the snake didn't want you to be! 😡

jillypill If you do google it have safe search on, there are some very disturbing animal abuse videos out there.

Meant to post again earlier but have been dealing with my sheep phobia whilst living next to a farm..

Need to buy more bullets tomorrow as there are some still left....

I don't want to google

because of that reason, made that mistake before 🤢

OP , I am on your side. I would of wanted it dead!

Its a shame, isnt it. Potentially the internet is the best resource you can imagine, in reality theres a lot of dross and stuff thats downright disturbing.

Yes & often your searching for something different but related & the yucky stuff comes.

you're!

RIP Baby snake.

The Brown Snake.

(Douglas Alexander Stewart)

I walked to the green gum-tree
Because the day was hot;
A snake could be anywhere
But that time I forgot.

The Duckmaloi lazed through the valley
In amber pools like tea
From some old fossicker's billy,
And I walked under the tree.

Blue summer smoked on Bindo,
It lapped me warm in its waves,
And when that snake hissed up
Under the shower of leaves

Huge, high as my waist,
Rearing with lightning's tongue,
So brown with heat like the fallen
Dry sticks it hid among,

I thought the earth itself
Under the green gum-tree,
All in the sweet of summer
Reached out to strike at me.

....................................................

The Duckmaloi is an Australian River.

A fossicker is someone who searches, especially for gold.

A billy is a cooking can.

Bindo is another Australian waterway.

This is why I couldn't live in Oz, or even visit. Spiders, snake, sharks, crocodiles, stonefish, it's bloody endless!

The pic I posted has reminded me that outside urban areas, flies are far more of an irritation than anything you have mentioned.

I googled & cows & kangaroos are more likely to kill you then my list however they are not have as scary!

And yet...your thread is still here!

The pic I posted has reminded me that outside urban areas, flies are far more of an irritation than anything you have mentioned.

Cardinal sin in our place growing up was failing to close the screen door. Worse crime than not closing a gate if you asked my mum.

In the summer, There was always a bizarre dance just outside the door to dislodge all the flies from your back, and then you’d nip inside in the split second before they settled on your shirt again.

I googled & cows & kangaroos are more likely to kill you then my list however they are not have as scary!

I’m going full cliché Australian now but I’ve been trampled by a cow and bitten (slightly) by a red back. Give me the spider any day. An enraged cow when you are between her and her calf is not a happy place to be.

I’m homesick for my randomly weird and terrifying to outsiders country now!

I'm getting this thread taken down now

Pahahahahaaa

Poor baby snake 🐍

wtf just sitting down & see spider legs on my arm. Not moved so fast in months!

@jillypill

Killed in a dreadful way that would have taken it ages to die

Off topic but i thought beheading was a quick death?

Not for reptiles or fish. Because they're cold blooded, they have lower oxygen requirements and so the brain/nervous system takes that much longer to die.