| Snakes Alive!!
Posted: 10/15/2006 6:26:51 AM | Summer must be coming,the bobtails are out in force and I saw the first snake track out the front of the house yesterday! I get asked all the time from people overseas about our deadly snakes but I dont know anyone thats been bitten!
Ever been bitten or know someone who has? | |
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| Snakes Alive!!
Posted: 10/15/2006 7:23:29 AM | Its funny..its always the tourists that get bitten. Much like in Pamplona, its always the tourists that get gored in the Running of the Bulls.....ahh, memories of sheer terror while drunk and legless on San Miguel beer/ Corona. | |
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| Snakes Alive!!
Posted: 10/15/2006 8:31:41 AM | OMG... Flashback... The sakes in my area... Or at least the ones I remember did not bite and were not venemous if they did snipe... We call them grass snakes...
A memory came back... When I was about 10 years old... My grandfather was removing a huge rock ... (I lived on a huge farm...) Anyway... Once the rock was lifted... Us kids roamed around all the time with the men doing cool stuff... Anyway... The rock was lifted and there was sort of a hole in a weird angle... Lo and behold... There was a sake pit... I remember seeing at least a hundred or so snakes all mixed up with each other... Much like a ball of tangled wool... It was cool to watch... It never scared me... I still remember this giant gnarled ball of snake moving about slowly... Major flashback...
My grandfather said to leave them alone, they were good for varmin...
It was cool to see... Thanks for the memory...
I know... I am different... I love animals and nature... I have had major adventures with animals but the ones with humans scare me the most...  | |
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Posted: 10/15/2006 3:59:26 PM | a friend of mine was bitten on two seperate occasions by the red belly black snake.
once when he was 4yrs old,
then again when he was 10yrs old,
he's now late 30's and healthy as.
he doesn't really remeber the first bite but from his family he says it wasn't all that big a deal.
and same again for the 2nd bite.
might be a different story had it of been a brown snake. | |
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Posted: 10/15/2006 4:20:51 PM | | Last year have never seen so many snakes, chances are this year could be just as bad. They never worried me, have even put the hose on them to point them in the right direction. | |
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Posted: 10/15/2006 4:24:10 PM | about three weeks ago i drove 3hrs sth from brisbane into NSW,
i saw more dead snakes on the road than police!
i mean police cars,
not police dead on the road!
hmmm, shame about that! | |
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Posted: 10/15/2006 4:28:30 PM | | I don't have a problem with snakes.... but spiders, that's a whole phobia of it's own..... | |
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Posted: 10/15/2006 6:35:04 PM | | You wouldn't want to visit Queensland then jumpup, we have huntsmen spiders here as big as your hand, and they love to visit too | |
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Posted: 10/15/2006 7:47:48 PM | Never been bitten but been chased by one at the sand dunes on the beach, in our local paper here in the lower south east there was 2 snakes found where they dont usually come into the inner city, 1 was found in our shopping centre car park, ugh, imagine that! the other was in someones back yard when the dog kept barking they went out to see the snake there, lucky it wasnt bitten.....
There doing alot of building now in the what was once a paddock next to us, hoping we dont have any surprise visitors........
Susan, omg, speaking of huntsmans, those things make me freeze, yes freeze, total panic, yuk...... | |
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Posted: 10/15/2006 8:03:27 PM | I've never been bitten, but I know quite a few people who have been. None of them tend to 'play' with snakes and one woman got a fair slap from hubby cause she got hysterical when she was bitten hanging clothes on the line. One bloke was cleaning out a colvert, reached his hand up and was bitten. He never saw the snake but says it felt like to hot needles. He was hospitalised over night and a bit crook. Another woman bitten on the ankle, at night hanging clothes out, but the snake struck her ankle joint and didnt do any damage, other than scare the shit out of her.
Also know a few kids that have been given a nasty suck (mostly in and around chook pens), but none ended up sick- apparently snakes can give a warning strike without releasing venom.
We primarily have tiger snakes and dugites (king brown's) in this area.
Oh, and I am no hippy. I will kill a snake if I see one. | |
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| Snakes Alive!!
Posted: 10/16/2006 3:49:54 AM | I haven't heard of people getting bitten by snakes in the Metropolitan area, but each year I hear of dog and cats getting bitten !!
Friends of mine have had their dogs bitten by snakes, again they are mainly the dreaded Brown Snakes... normally if they are quick enough and take the dog to the Vet an anti-venom is injected and the dog survives..
I haven't had snakes in my garden but certainly lots of Redback spiders, heaps of them, this spring I have already seen 4 huge big red mammas with their big egg sacks.. Of course the male is not to be seen anywhere, now I wonder what on earth could have happened to him.. lol
Tis the season of all things deadly.. | |
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| Snakes Alive!!
Posted: 10/16/2006 3:53:00 AM | "I don't like spiders and snakes,
but that ain't what it takes,
to love me... like I wanna be loved by you"
Anyone remember that oldie? | |
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Posted: 10/16/2006 4:01:25 AM | Jump I remember it, great song.. good one..
Well I don't like them either, but they are a way of life here, fortunately casualties are not high as the snakes tend to keep away ... as for the spiders.... oohhh yukkkkk
Two night ago a big black and I mean black as, I dont know what type of spider it was, but it didn't look all the friendly was on my staircase... ooh the thought of it still sends shivers..
I just wanna to be loved by you and you alone !!! : | |
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| Snakes Alive!!
Posted: 10/16/2006 4:04:43 AM | i am exactly the same jumpup, not afraid of snakes, but put a spider in front of me and i will bring out the weapons. i will turn the room upside down should it dissappear while i am running for the can of spray and of course a long handled broom, thats to stop it making a mad dash for my legs. have to admit though, i am the one nearly dead after using a can of spray on mr hairy legs. | |
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Posted: 10/16/2006 4:07:33 AM | Poptone.... I know exactly what you are saying there.... a whole can of flyspray, but last year because of the infestation of Redbacks I was desparate and went to the supermarket and now they have spider spray.... That works wonders... Good stuff !
No more of the fly spray, but be careful it is almost like using a full can of flyspray it's that potent... | |
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Posted: 10/16/2006 9:20:23 AM | funny this thread being here now!
at work today, the convo turned to snakes.
a bloke at works dog was bitten by a red bellied black snake on the mouth.
he took it to the vet.
guess what?
anti venom for this snake cost him $619 for one vial.
a larger dog may need up to 3 vials.
with his wife and 2 kids looking on at poor old rover,
his hand slid into his back pocket and rover is now happily healthy.
$619 ???
how much do you love your dog? | |
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| Snakes Alive!!
Posted: 10/16/2006 2:01:16 PM | | geebus they dont mention any of this on the tourist brochure we only got one venomous snake couple of not so freindly spiders a few bears thats just about as bad as it gets in canada did i mention mosquitos | |
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Posted: 10/16/2006 2:20:21 PM | OMG!!! The criters sure seem dangerous in your country!!!
In my area... There are mosquitos, and black flies but nothing so so dangerous... Unless you go in the woods... Also depends where... wolves, bears etc... Still they will escape before they attack...
We are concerned with the West Nile Virus, coming from migrant birds, transfered to mosquitoes then transfered to humans...
How do you guys cope?... I mean... Do you have first aid kits or something...
Your country sounds like so much fun... Anyway... just random comments from a bored Canadian that is tired today...
Also, I was raised that you do not kill spiders... They eat the mosquitos and other pesky annoying flies... Weird eh... | |
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Posted: 10/16/2006 2:23:01 PM | | Yep, totally didn't see spiders in the brochure. Now I have to rethink my whole trip to Australia... big, black, poisonous spiders! oh my my, that just won't do. | |
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| Snakes Alive!!
Posted: 10/16/2006 2:38:31 PM | Huntsman spiders although they are big, hairy and ugly, aren't dangerous (apparantly), just scary looking. Good to have in the house for mossies etc...but i'd rather have the mossies... My daughter tried to spray once, it wouldn't die...but it did start to chase her, it was hilarious to watch  I sneak up on them and suck them up with the vacuum cleaner... | |
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Posted: 10/16/2006 3:53:40 PM | Reading the title of this thread I thought we were talking about Allens Snakes Alive lollies
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Posted: 10/16/2006 4:51:34 PM | ***Ive heard that the Huntsmans can hold their breath, is this true!!?
and do they bite, i know they can jump......1st hand experience there
Just getting a visual of me doing what Susan does and sucking them up with the vacuum
I dont think id sleep thinking it could crawl along the hose back out again...I lurve to see their shrivelly dead bodies, even dead i still cant pick them up
Got the poor neighbour to kill one once | |
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Posted: 10/16/2006 5:11:20 PM | I was "bitten" when I was 11. Stepped off the back patio onto this massive king brown. It was 2m long. I reacted pretty darn quickly and actually jumped on it with my other foot. Bare foot of course. It was coiling up around the first foot that stood on it. It was hard to tell if I felt anything bite, because there was a shrub there as well and the twigs etc where sharp. Anyway, I just shat!!! and got outta there as fast as possible. I was white as a ghost, and hyperventilating. I had trouble telling my mother what had happened. It became apparent, that I had a small, scratch on my shin, with a minuscule amount of blood. So to play it safe, I was taken to hospital.
Usual public hospital scenario here in Queensland. Your at the casualty ward with a friggin snake bite and they're out the back making coffee or fraternising. By the way it hasn't changed a sceric in 23 years except the ques are longer . So they kept me in over night. I don't know why, but the doctor had to inspect my wee wee...? They were doing that last time when I went in with a back injury as well (my testicles actually, there were med students all over them!?). Must be your nervous system indicator or something.
They found the snake a few meters from where I trod on it and it was practically dead. I must have bruised him a bit or actually jumped on his head. The old man gingerly fed it into one of those 3 liter coke bottles they had back then. It was put in a cab to go to a local naturalist. The cabbie reckoned it came back to life and started striking at him through the bottle!lol
Anyway I think it was a false alarm and I don't think I was given anti venine, though I was kept overnight for observation.
A photogragher from the local rag was coming around home and wanted to take a pic. But there was nothing to show, at least it would look pretty weak in the paper, so I got one of of mum's sewing needles and "manufactured some pretty convincing puncture marks...made the front page!
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| Snakes Alive!!
Posted: 10/16/2006 8:30:59 PM | ^^^hehe, well I have been told it's handsome, but I'm sure they were only after one thing... | |
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Posted: 10/17/2006 4:43:22 AM | | Pretty funny there Sid, with the sewing needles. LOL. | |
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