Unexpected guest.

[xelasnave]

Yesterday at 5 am my daughter found this on her bedside table. She released it I believe near my van so maybe I will get to entertain him when I get back up there.
Alex

[JeniSkunk]

That's a decent enough sized snake.
Hope it doesn't try to head back inside the house.

[skysurfer]

She holds it without protective gloves (and other PPE) ?

[Huey]

She holds it without protective gloves (and other PPE) ?

Because it is a totally harmless python!

Huey

[Ukastronomer]

Here is one we had earlier

I like snakes

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[JA]

One would want to be sure of one's species recognition:D. Anyway all power to her, it would have been a rude awakening at 5am on the bedside table!

Best
JA

[julianh72]

If you're not confident with recognising the type of snake, then yes, it's best to not attempt to handle one. However, pythons have a very easily recognised head shape, which is very distinct from most poisonous snakes. Colouration and patterning is also generally a good guide, but can't always be relied upon.

The python in Alex's post is a very handsome example; I'd be happy to have one around my home - but the possums and gliders might not agree!

[xelasnave]

No power here for 24 hours and I can't go anywhere cause the garage door needs electricity to open.
I had a python at the old place that lived in the house about the size of this one.
Alex

[Nikolas]

Nice shot
What sort of snakes do you get in the UK?

[JeniSkunk]

You need a no power, backup method, for opening and closing the garage door.
What type of garage door do you have? Roll-a-door (https://www.bnd.com.au/garage-doors/roller-doors/), Panellift (https://www.bnd.com.au/garage-doors/sectional-doors/) sectional door, or Tilt door (https://www.steel-line.com.au/tilt-garage-doors/)?
Maybe such a manual open/close can be retro-fitted?

[JA]

Hi Alex,

Check the details on the net for your model electric door opener as many of them have some form of manual override (sometimes a lever or pin on the drive side of the door) or use a generator for the 240VAC to the opener. Of course, all bets are off if there's only one way in to the garage

BEST
JA

[xelasnave]

Thanks Jennifer and JA re door. The phone was flat and to recharge again I thought I best run the car motor so I took the arm off the door and opened it so as to have air etc I could not work out another solution.
Power still out ...so two days now. The irony is that last trip North I took the Genny from here that has sat unused here for years.
Alex

[Sunfish]

A brave snake handler and a welcome visitor although perhaps not in your bedroom. Here is one we met on the path in Jervis Bay, a diamond Python. We have had an Olive Python here . I don’t think I would like to pick up the one we met, it was not happy to see us, coiled itself in strike position and while not poisonous , does have long sharp teeth.

[Sunfish]

Ps. All garage doors are required to open manually and have a pull cord with a red handle to release the drive mechanism so they can be lifted manually.

[JeniSkunk]

Ray, that's only good if the power goes out, while you're inside the garage.
How do you get into such a garage from the outside, when the power is out?

[JohnF]

Problem is the Broad headed snake has a head like a Python. A number of people have been bitten by these thinking that it is a Python. BUT if the snake that looks like a Python is over 2 metres it will be a Python. The Steven's Banded snake is a member of the Broad headed snake family and is poisonous.

Never seen one, but it looks like a Python, but smaller. The Clarence River Rough Scale snake also looks a bit like a Python. But these only reach about one metre.

I've caught many snakes, including a Brown and three tiger snakes, and except for python bites have only been bitten once. By a Red Belly Black. And was very sick. but no treatment other than Antihistamine. So I do know what I am talking about.

[Sunfish]

A garage without a person door. ?

Should never have an auto door.

I suppose an extended emergency release cord.

Or a default power out release mechanism.. . I can see your point about some kind of system. What if a child or an animal were locked in there.?

[Sunfish]

Or a small pet trapped with a large python.

[Kirthgersen]

Hi. Have handled pythons many times and never bitten. I've always wondered what their bite would feel like. Would you describe it? How painful and what if any damage...

Cheers

[xelasnave]

The snake came back. It seems he has a spot he likes in "the cat garden" but the cat is not happy. I thought they dropped him at my van but it was the other dam...so they will try him at the van as that puts a creek between him and the house.
Such a pity as he is a neat snake according to my daughter as he does not mind being handled at all.
Alex

[leee]

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy, in case I see a snake,
which I also keep handy.

W.C. Fields

[xelasnave]

Hi I hope you are well.
It is amazing he came back..the dam was 300 mts away.
Here is a neat lizzard that stays outside.
Alex

[Sunfish]

Great wildlife.
Talking blue tongues this baby in the dianella has a beautiful camouflage pattern.

[xelasnave]

Thanks for sharing.
It seems these snakes are like a cat that gets dropped and comes back. One account told of a drop approx ten klms away and in time the snake returned.
Lots of flooding around Tabby the main road was cut yesterday.
Alex

[Kirthgersen]

Or another snake...

[xelasnave]

Yes however one finds that they are easily identifiable and so different that if you knew you could not make your observation...I am confident that we deal with the same snake
Yet he has moved out of the cat garden... so good...most folk don't understand or care about other creatures...but we move him to another place...where some other snake rules...it is a problem...I hope he can be close by but not upset the cat. At least he is in a place where humans actually care for him.
Alex

[Kirthgersen]

You’re a good man mr Evans. I’m sure you’re family have similar values.

[JohnF]

Carpet snake & otherwise Python's teeth are like Needles, and very sharp. So that a bite, is as if I jabbed a number of needles into you at the same time. Hurts a bit but harmless. However carpet snakes eat Rats, so may have germs in their mouth, so that could gt infected. Most of my bites were not treated.

Am now mainly a vegetarian, except for a bit of Kosher fish, Sardines, Herrings, and Salmon. But in 1979 worked in a Pathology Laboratory in Sydney, and took my pt carpet make to work, and was eating a chicken drumstick when the carpet snake decided that he wants it, but stuck and bit my hand instead.

So as we handle lots of germs, I poured Iodine over that wound. But normally did not treat a Carpet Snake bite. He or she ate the Bone of that Chicken Drumstick.

[JohnF]

I was once asked to relocate a Carpet snake. People let him hunt on there back steps until they say it eat a Tawny Frog Mouth. the size of their very small dog. Then they realised that that dog could be its next meal, so I was asked to catch and relocate that snake.

Never have deliberately killed a snake. Ran over one late at night, by accident one though.

[Kirthgersen]

If they didn't actually see the snake eat a tawny Frogmouth I'd say it's not likely. Unless of course the carpet snake was inordinately large. Catching a tawny in the first place is unusual unless the tawny was extremely tepid and unwell... and it is a very large animal to swallow whole even for carpe snakes who can dislocate their jaws to accomodate.

[JohnF]

They saw it swallow the Tawny Frogmouth. That is why I was called in to catch the snake. A Snake catcher asked me to catch it for him, as it was only 8 km from my place, an 35 from him. Yes from memory it was a large one. This was back in the 1990s. A carpet snake can swallow prey very much bigger than its head. We lost lots of our chooks to carpet snakes.

One 16 foot carpet snack once swallowed a 40 pound pig.

Overseas humans have been swallowed by big Pythons, a small adult Grandfather in one case.

e do not have snakes in the southern states big enough to do that.