snake catcher Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Hope you like it as much as i did making it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tintin Jac Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 That's great. My OH said he would have chopped the poor things head off Hopefully he now thinks it would be a better idea to give you a call. Do you reckon that poor lady will be freaking out now that she knows so many snakes are living next door? She didn't seem comortable with the whole thing at all. OT Is it true that if you have blue tongue lizards you are unlikely to have snakes (native ones)? OH's family has a farm on MP and we've never seen a snake. But there are quite a few blues and there used to be a huge (like over a meter) gecko type creature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staffyluv Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I sorta feel sorry for the snakes being kept in a plastic container - seems totally wrong to me.. I am glad the little guy went home though (and did not get his head chopped off)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake catcher Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 (edited) I sorta feel sorry for the snakes being kept in a plastic container - seems totally wrong to me.. Yes, it cant be much of a life for them. Snake breeders us this tub rack system and although it looks cruel and nasty,and I would not keep adult snakes like this, the dimentions of the tubs do meet the DSE rules and regs. Anyway, here is another video from yesterday. Edited January 21, 2012 by snake catcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dory the Doted One Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I had to laugh. "oh, it's looking at me". "yeah. They do that. They have eyes". Classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Baggins Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I sorta feel sorry for the snakes being kept in a plastic container - seems totally wrong to me.. I am glad the little guy went home though (and did not get his head chopped off)... As much as I dislike snakes keeping them like that seems cruel. I know pythons are different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAXi-000 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Great videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wings Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Nice to have a happy ending, although like some of the other posters I like bigger enclosures! OT Is it true that if you have blue tongue lizards you are unlikely to have snakes (native ones)? OH's family has a farm on MP and we've never seen a snake. But there are quite a few blues and there used to be a huge (like over a meter) gecko type creature. Old wives tale ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake catcher Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 (edited) Yes, bluetongues and snakes will live together, it is an old wives tale. Big bluetongues eat heaps of baby snakes though. Im not a collecter of reptiles but I do have a few pets. These are my enclosures for them but i have cleaned the glass and addded plants, ect to the enclosures. Edited January 22, 2012 by snake catcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSoSwift Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Thought of you yesterday. OH was checking the sheep and they were grazing near the boundry fence. On the post or rather around the fence post was a very large tiger snake. It's head was at the top, it was wrapped around the post a few times and it's tail a few inches from the ground. He came home to get the video camera but it had gone. We can only think he was trying to get away from the sheep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake catcher Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 OSoSwift, can you buy the OH a cheap digi camera to keep handy or at least get him to use the camera on the mobile phone. You never know what you might see. My friend took this footage af a goanna and a brownsnake sharing the same home in the wild on her WA property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvawilow Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 If the snake catcher in our region didn't take over and hour and a half to attend a call then I think the brown snake in our yard last year would have had the same happy ending. I hate the loss of life but when a snake was under my daughter's bedroom window and only 3 metres from the back it's just not good. We have, however, learned (we'd only brought they ppty a few months prior and old owners were tree huggers)and every sleeper, boulder, shrub and creeper has been removed and all leaf litter (that was over 1ft deep) was burned. We have 8 Guniea Fowl and at the bottom of the perimeter fences we have attached wood (covered in sump oil - got told it was good deterant, that the snakes would prefer a easier route). Touch wood we have not seen one single snake for the past two summers but our neighbours have had 2 in the last 4 weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake catcher Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 Seems like youre trying to do the right thing Silvawillow, apart from the dead snake, I hope you never see another snake there but dont get complacent and go barefoot through the grass after a few vinos. This video is not a happy cute one, but it is short. Dont watch it if you are sensitve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSoSwift Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 OSoSwift, can you buy the OH a cheap digi camera to keep handy or at least get him to use the camera on the mobile phone. You never know what you might see. My friend took this footage af a goanna and a brownsnake sharing the same home in the wild on her WA property. It was of course the pretty much only time he didn't have his phone!! He was very annoyed at himself :) I immediately thought of you and thought you would have liked to see it. My phone doesn't have a camera - bit old but will get one when I get a new phone :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake catcher Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 I have been busy and Ive also added a few videos of animal rescues and snakes ect, This snake rescue video was take yesterday in Cranbourne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tintin Jac Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 That's cool. They were all so scared of it but you clearly loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake catcher Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 I do love it Tintin, Ever since I was a little kid Ive been catching snakes and I see phobic and terrified people every day. Its great when I can get them to see the snake in a different light and take away some of the stigma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake catcher Posted February 9, 2012 Author Share Posted February 9, 2012 Sme more, this was yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Avanti* Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Sme more, this was yesterday I've been looking at your videos, some good work there! Good on you for helping our reptile friends and improving their reputation. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dory the Doted One Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Sme more, this was yesterday Gawd. That one looked like a bit of an adrenaline rush. I freak out when long necked turtles look at me. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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