Can Anyone Help Me Identify This Snake?

[animatic]

I found this guy in my studio about 3 meters from my chair.

The dog alerted me, but I thought it was a mouse in a raised trap,

which I looked up to while walking over... my the dog IS making odd noises...

when I looked down from 1 meter and small change.. I saw...and my brain stopped.

On restart I backed away VERY slowly.

Thank god for the dog, which was an equal worry for the snake.

Monacled Cobra quite dangerous,

and I was NOT going to let it go an hide in the unfinished nooks and crannies,

and continue to hunt tokays and mice like it apparently had been for awhile...

Called the wife she looked ad said: " What's that! I don't like it... KILL IT!"

While I and the rotwieller kept it from turning to go, she found me a weapon: a garden hoe...

Long handled at least....

I am still here, the cobra is not.

Beautiful snake and a good photo so you must have been able to get fairly close. Why did you find it so necessary to kill it?

There are people here who would gladly come and take it away and release it. Only a phone call away.

I took the phote from 2-3 meters with zoom, partly to blind the snake, keep it of balance,

and partly cause I had the time while the Mrs. found me a way to deal with this.

Yes I agree NOW... it would have been nice to spare the animal...

But at the time, there were MANY places inside for this to hide

and hunting it out would have been a dangerous nightmare for the best snake rescuer.

If you understood the layout you likely would have agreed.

So you tell me, would you want to sleep in your home,

knowing a live, hunting cobra, is in it, in some corne,r or box, or insulation pile?

I did NOT have a phone number for a snake rescue guy till the next day,

and the idea of evacuating my house till 'I found out IF this guy existed'

was not on the menu in hand.

I had a potentially deadly problem in my house, out in the open,

but no way to herd it outside, without sending it into a maze of places to hide and wait.

I had to make a judgment call, on the spot, in real time.

End of story.

Edited September 29, 2009 by animatic

[carmine]

I found this guy in my studio about 3 meters from my chair.

The dog alerted me, but I thought it was a mouse in a raised trap,

which I looked up to while walking over... my the dog IS making odd noises...

when I looked down from 1 meter and small change.. I saw...and my brain stopped.

On restart I backed away VERY slowly.

Thank god for the dog, which was an equal worry for the snake.

Monacled Cobra quite dangerous,

and I was NOT going to let it go an hide in the unfinished nooks and crannies,

and continue to hunt tokays and mice like it apparently had been for awhile...

Called the wife she looked ad said: " What's that! I don't like it... KILL IT!"

While I and the rotwieller kept it from turning to go, she found me a weapon: a garden hoe...

Long handled at least....

I am still here, the cobra is not.

Beautiful snake and a good photo so you must have been able to get fairly close. Why did you find it so necessary to kill it?

There are people here who would gladly come and take it away and release it. Only a phone call away.

I took the phote from 2-3 meters with zoom, partly to blind the snake, keep it of balance,

and partly cause I had the time while the Mrs. found me a way to deal with this.

Yes I agree NOW... it would have been nice to spare the animal...

But at the time, there were MANY places inside for this to hide

and hunting it out would have been a dangerous nightmare for the best snake rescuer.

If you understood the layout you likely would have agreed.

So you tell me, would you want to sleep in your home,

knowing a live, hunting cobra, is in it, in some corne,r or box, or insulation pile?

I did NOT have a phone number for a snake rescue guy till the next day,

and the idea of evacuating my house till 'I found out IF this guy existed'

was not on the menu in hand.

I had a potentially deadly problem in my house, out in the open,

but no way to herd it outside, without sending it into a maze of places to hide and wait.

I had to make a judgment call, on the spot, in real time.

End of story.

Don't be such a pussy, it's only a cobra