thaigerd Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Just 30 minutes ago: Screaming wife, barking and crazing going dogs in our bedroom: A 1m long cobra !!!!! Don't ask me how she get in. First I had to get the dogs out than wife and me hunted and killed her.........what a tough beast. My heart is still beating like hel_l................... Gerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WOOHOO Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I'm not sure 'hunted' is an appropriate word. It was locked in your bedroom after all!! Doesn't Phuket have any snake specialists that most other countries have? The ones who come around and catch the snake, drive it off in to the jungle and release it. With our worlds constantly getting closer we could use someone like that. Any volunteers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroBiker Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I am in Phuket too, had numerous encounters with Cobras on my property. Thank God I got like 6 cats and they always alert me about their presence. Then I call estate security guard and they kill them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdinasia Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Glad you are all OK Gerd .... but now you are going to have many healthy children (all boys!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaethon Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 .... but now you are going to have many healthy children (all boys!) Not if his wife reads this and realizes he saved the dogs first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CroBiker Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 .... but now you are going to have many healthy children (all boys!) Not if his wife reads this and realizes he saved the dogs first I was thinking the same.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasRanger Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I'm not sure 'hunted' is an appropriate word. It was locked in your bedroom after all!!Doesn't Phuket have any snake specialists that most other countries have? The ones who come around and catch the snake, drive it off in to the jungle and release it. With our worlds constantly getting closer we could use someone like that. Any volunteers? Ridiculous. Family comes first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donna Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 .... but now you are going to have many healthy children (all boys!) Not if his wife reads this and realizes he saved the dogs first I was thinking the same.... knowing gerd and his lovely wife, i am sure that the dogs would be first in any case. to know them is to love them. they are special dogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WOOHOO Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I'm not sure 'hunted' is an appropriate word. It was locked in your bedroom after all!!Doesn't Phuket have any snake specialists that most other countries have? The ones who come around and catch the snake, drive it off in to the jungle and release it. With our worlds constantly getting closer we could use someone like that. Any volunteers? Ridiculous. Family comes first. I think you'll find everybody was out of the building and very much safe when the snake was killed. If anything the OP was putting himself at risk by re-entering the house and tackling the snake. I wasn't being a tree hugger, if something needs to be killed then so be it, but for me it should always be the last resort. In Florida they have people who come and get alligators out of your swimming pool, in Australia they have the same for crocs, so if it happens as much as it seems it does here with dangerous snakes then having the same here would be appropriate. More common sense than ridiculous I feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tw25rw Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 .... but now you are going to have many healthy children (all boys!) Not if his wife reads this and realizes he saved the dogs first I was thinking the same.... knowing gerd and his lovely wife, i am sure that the dogs would be first in any case. to know them is to love them. they are special dogs. And presumeably his wife is less likely to try and grab the snake in her mouth.. I think the OP should take note that the largest number of people bitten by snakes were trying to kill the snake when it happened.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g00dgirl Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I had cobras on the property for several months, too. There are people who come and catch them. They can also put up nets where the cobras get caught in and then you call them to pick it up. I had three getting caught in the nets in the past 3 months. 0816937430 is the guys number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huggybear Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I was in the Gili islands off of Lombok in 1992, Trawangan, and we were in these basic bungalows where you had a mandy, and the toilet was actually a dugout with just a basic whole in the floor. This one morning I wake up to serious commotion, the German man of a couple staying in the bungalow next to me was out front, naked, and cussing and screaming obscenities (I don't know German but there were a few schitzens and so forth). Up comes this Indonesian guy with a stick, goes into the bungalow and comes out with the biggest fattest cobra I had ever seen. Two metres at least. Seems when the German guy went for his morning duty he ran into the snake. Laughing later over beers I told him he was lucky the snake didn't get his braunswager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Croc Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I'm not sure 'hunted' is an appropriate word. It was locked in your bedroom after all!!Doesn't Phuket have any snake specialists that most other countries have? The ones who come around and catch the snake, drive it off in to the jungle and release it. With our worlds constantly getting closer we could use someone like that. Any volunteers? Do they have people who come out at 2.00 am to remove snakes from bedrooms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiang mai Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Pan fried with a little garlic perhaps Gert? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaigerd Posted November 6, 2008 Author Share Posted November 6, 2008 Pan fried with a little garlic perhaps Gert? Chiang mai, my wife "finished" her with a hammer from our tool box until there was no sign of moving parts from the snake. So it looked like a mashed snake at the end..... But after all this little adventure some thoughts from my site: -some of us could be dead, may be all of us. -sometimes we go out and the dogs are alone at home......... Gerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDRIDER Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Hi Just been looking around, dont think they can get in to my house, i hope not then again never seen one here where i live, have you found out where it came in????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiang mai Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I'm glad it all turned out well in the end and that you're all OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toptuan Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 (edited) HiJust been looking around, dont think they can get in to my house, i hope not then again never seen one here where i live, have you found out where it came in????? You'd be amazed at what snakes can get into. No house or room is inviolable. I thought that I completely "hermetically" sealed my bedroom to boost the efficiency of my air-conditioning unit. I was determined no cold air would escape nor warm air enter the room. All windows and door joints/edges were sealed with tough plastic weather-stripping type material. Any defective ceiling tiles were replaced, and any ceiling gaps (especially near the walls) were plugged. A nice side benefit, so I thought, would be to seal out unwanted creatures (thinking lizards, insects, etc.) After all that work, one night I was typing away on the computer in my bedroom, and a movement caught my eye off to the right. A one-meter snake (never identified) was stealthily crawling from my printer onto a side desk, less than a meter from my elbow. Same scene as the OP: screaming, crashing furniture, heart beating wildly, trying to chase down the snake and get it out the door. I finally "swept" it to the door with a broom, and did the old golf-swing out the front door. Then the crazy thing, after it hit the garden wall, crawled directly at me, trying to get back into the house! It was obviously confused or dazed from my aggressive eviction tactics. I slammed the screen door just before it made re-entry, the thing hung around the front door for a few minutes, and then slithered off across the yard. Somehow, now I just don't feel like I can let down my guard anywhere around the house. For example, now I even leave several lights on at night so I don't have to walk anywhere in darkness in the middle of the night when using the restroom. I wear indoor shoes a lot more often. I never put my hand into a dark place (closet, cupboard, etc.) without looking first. Yeah, you could say I was a bit traumatized. Be careful, it's a jungle here! Edited November 6, 2008 by toptuan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaethon Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Then the crazy thing, after it hit the garden wall, crawled directly at me, trying to get back into the house! Probably forgot its car keys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordofdelusion Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Where abouts do you live? I relocated a red neck keelback a short while ago from my backyard in Chalong. Had to get it before the baby did. The baby would have killed the dam_n thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaigerd Posted November 6, 2008 Author Share Posted November 6, 2008 HiJust been looking around, dont think they can get in to my house, i hope not then again never seen one here where i live, have you found out where it came in????? I guess during day time, all doors are open to a big garden........not now anymore. Gerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzdocxx Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 basic bungalows where you had a mandy, and the toilet was actually a dugout with just a basic whole in the floor. (Hey what's a mandy?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donna Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 a mandi is the square tub of water where you dip the bucket and pour it over yourself for a shower. to 'mandi' is to have a shower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huggybear Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 a mandi is the square tub of water where you dip the bucket and pour it over yourself for a shower. to 'mandi' is to have a shower. and my Swedish pal, when I walked into his bungalow was trying to squeeze into the thing because he thought it was a bath tub......... Quite hilarious ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorSucker Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 a mandi is the square tub of water where you dip the bucket and pour it over yourself for a shower. to 'mandi' is to have a shower. and my Swedish pal, when I walked into his bungalow was trying to squeeze into the thing because he thought it was a bath tub......... Quite hilarious ! Must try that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okidoki Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 (edited) Caught this guy, a monacle cobra 2 weeks ago at home. My daughter was nearly bitten by it since she sat down on the "shoebench" and she was putting on her shoes... Took some photos and released it close to Nai Thon. :-) That was my second cobra in a month at my place. Have a lot of experience from venomous snakes so if anyone really wants some help, mess me for my no. Just a hint... If you find baby cobras, you can be sure to find more. A big one is 95% always alone... We have caught so far one 3.6 m Ret python, 1 wine snake, 1 pipesnakes, quite a few nd golden tree snakes, "jumping" snake, a Green catsnake and maybe some more I don´t remember... And a monitor of about a meter that my daughter put a collar on... :-) None of the animals where injured and all were released, except the first cobra that our poolguy unfortunately killed... Now, we are up for finding a King Cobra! :-) Please let us know if you have any information of any! Btw, we live in the Laguna area. DO NOT TRY TO KILL A VENOMOUS SNAKE WITH A HAMMER!!! THAT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!!! Remove it instead with a brom to lift it and put it in a large dustbin or something simliar. Sorry, have to show some evidence! Edited November 7, 2008 by Okidoki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huggybear Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Caught this guy, a monacle cobra 2 weeks ago at home........ The little yellow striped guy looks cool, it's venomous? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Croc Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 That little black and yellow thing sitting on the hand is exactly what I discovered in my central Patong hotel garden last year. It shaped up to strike when i put my hand close so I gave it clearance. It looked a little like a viper. Obviously not venomous. What is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lopburi99 Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 (edited) a mandi is the square tub of water where you dip the bucket and pour it over yourself for a shower. to 'mandi' is to have a shower. and my Swedish pal, when I walked into his bungalow was trying to squeeze into the thing because he thought it was a bath tub......... Quite hilarious ! Reminds me of a dizzy, Lucille Ball type woman I once knew who, seeing a bidet for the first time, thought it was for washing her feet, and did so! Edited November 7, 2008 by Lopburi99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingdongrb Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Wow Okidoki..... I see that snake scared you so bad you turned 'white as a ghost'.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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