Snakes In My Garden!

[gobs]

Hi all!

I notice a lot of "problem" with snakes in this thread...

For my part, I live in Sankamphaeng/ Chiang Mai in a pretty house with garden where I moved 8 months ago. And here, I feel nice, but...

But... during these last 8 months, I "met" maybe about half a dozen of different snakes in my garden... asking myself too how many I didn't "check" .

I notice some grey/brown and bright green 2/3 feet long, some black 1 foot long, some little yellow/black ringed and some with "no colours in the dawn", sometimes in my true footpath. These "meetings", as I'm not a nephew of Indiana Jones, make me uncomfortable when I'm "crawling" through plants and flowers, when I'm curing or doing new plantations...

OK, OK, I know, snakes are more afraid of us than we can be of them! But no matter...

At the beginning of the week, it was the best! This day, near stairs leading up to the terrasse and the entrance of my home and its bay windows (!!!..), where I was just planting some new tree, my dog barked loudy, hairs up on his back, pointing angrily the area where I was gardening. Then I heard something moving in leaves on the ground, just before a 4 feet long snake got out, and climbed a high plant, reached the roof of the parking lot aside... I ran up to the terrasse with a shovel in my hands, but when I approched, "master snake" gave me some ugly shhhhh-shhhhhh and quickly disappeared off my sight by the roof... while I stayed in a great expectation with my needless weapon. Then, where did he go, that is the question!

Because the land is closed by walls all around, except for the gate... and if snakes don't have the key, I guess they can go in/out by the gap between the concrete of the ground and the frame of the gate. Euh, better going out, eh!..

So, this 4 feet long snake, what it was?

Little head, long and slim body about 2 inches thick at the biggest, and a strange "fluorescent green colour", meaning "very" bright green colour like young leaves of a tree.

And what can I do, apart moving away from this house (thank you!)?

What can I do to take snakes away from my garden?

Someone have already had this "experiment"?

Well, as I do not want to turn my life to breding snakes, all advices welcome.

Thanks by advance.

[H2oDunc]

Dont bite them and they wont bite you!! Just get on with youre life but just be aware when you go into their home IE the garden of where you step. Most snakes will vanish when they hear you coming and will only bite as a defensive response. Just let them get on with it and you do the same

Kids are a diferent matter but generaly the same,just go out before junior and make a lot of noise by brushingor banging. Or get a twelve bore !!!!! just joking

[Bredbury Blue]

If you've read my posts over the months you'll know that we get a reasonable variety of non-poisonous, poisonous and pythons. This seems to be the busy time for them every year. All slither away at high speed when they see / hear us apart from the cobras who stand their ground, always. Snakes seems to be a common problem for us non-condo dwelling folk.

[gobs]

Thanks for the advices...

But what is the name of the "fluorescent" green snake? Or family?..

Dangerous? Venomous?..

Very "strange pet" for the Westerner I'm!..

Cheeers