Get a better picture taken for a start.

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Right ... just put the lens about 6 inches from the head , look carefully through viewfinder to check it's a good picture, and ask the subject to smile for the birdie

Or not ... if it looks hungry

Ever soooo slightly    but does anyone know what type of Snakes live in the Chaiya Phum area. Firstly, because when me and the Wife go there i'm very wary  Secondly, the wifes dad is getting very old and won't quit working on the neighbours farm. So that he can take life a bit more easy, we've decided to buy him 5 or 6 Pigletts as a surprise (my wife says he's talked about it in the past) and he can take care of them and make some money from them when they are nice and juicy  However, i don't know what Snakes are around and so don't know what kind of shelter they require. The wifes dad will obviously know but that will spoil the surprise 

Mr BoJ

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ChaiyaPhum would probably have the same types of snakes as anywhere else in Thailand. With the exception of pythons, there are no snakes big enough to consider a piglet a potential meal, so I wouldn't worry too much. Even a hungry python would only be able to eat a single piglet (and then probably not feed again for a few months), so I wouldn't really worry.

Remember that snakes will bite to either 1) protect themselves, or 2) to kill prey. My wifes parents have a pair of cobras living in a bamboo grove 50 meters from their house, and they don't seem concerned at all.....

If your father-in-law has dogs around, I don't think there will be much to worry about - snakes and dogs normally don't mix.....

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Cheers WhiteShiva, that puts mine and the piglets minds at ease I will sleep more easily at nights when i go there now. Darn, no i won't, nearly forgot about the farang eating ANTS

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Nothing to worry about - people in Easan eat ants too, and there are plenty of them to go around. If you do run out of ants, let me know, and I'll send you some from my place....

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Yummy, I like Ant Eggs with Chilli... good for you and tasty!

Ever soooo slightly    but does anyone know what type of Snakes live in the Chaiya Phum area. Firstly, because when me and the Wife go there i'm very wary  Secondly, the wifes dad is getting very old and won't quit working on the neighbours farm. So that he can take life a bit more easy, we've decided to buy him 5 or 6 Pigletts as a surprise (my wife says he's talked about it in the past) and he can take care of them and make some money from them when they are nice and juicy  However, i don't know what Snakes are around and so don't know what kind of shelter they require. The wifes dad will obviously know but that will spoil the surprise 

Mr BoJ

ChaiyaPhum would probably have the same types of snakes as anywhere else in Thailand. With the exception of pythons, there are no snakes big enough to consider a piglet a potential meal, so I wouldn't worry too much. Even a hungry python would only be able to eat a single piglet (and then probably not feed again for a few months), so I wouldn't really worry.

Remember that snakes will bite to either 1) protect themselves, or 2) to kill prey. My wifes parents have a pair of cobras living in a bamboo grove 50 meters from their house, and they don't seem concerned at all.....

If your father-in-law has dogs around, I don't think there will be much to worry about - snakes and dogs normally don't mix.....

Cheers WhiteShiva, that puts mine and the piglets minds at ease I will sleep more easily at nights when i go there now. Darn, no i won't, nearly forgot about the farang eating ANTS

Nothing to worry about - people in Easan eat ants too, and there are plenty of them to go around. If you do run out of ants, let me know, and I'll send you some from my place....

Yummy, I like Ant Eggs with Chilli... good for you and tasty!

It's not me eating them that's the problem, it's the Ants eating me Every time i go there they devour me. Mosquito's don't usually bother me but Ants love me

Mr BoJ

Ever soooo slightly    but does anyone know what type of Snakes live in the Chaiya Phum area. Firstly, because when me and the Wife go there i'm very wary  Secondly, the wifes dad is getting very old and won't quit working on the neighbours farm. So that he can take life a bit more easy, we've decided to buy him 5 or 6 Pigletts as a surprise (my wife says he's talked about it in the past) and he can take care of them and make some money from them when they are nice and juicy  However, i don't know what Snakes are around and so don't know what kind of shelter they require. The wifes dad will obviously know but that will spoil the surprise 

Mr BoJ

ChaiyaPhum would probably have the same types of snakes as anywhere else in Thailand. With the exception of pythons, there are no snakes big enough to consider a piglet a potential meal, so I wouldn't worry too much. Even a hungry python would only be able to eat a single piglet (and then probably not feed again for a few months), so I wouldn't really worry.

Remember that snakes will bite to either 1) protect themselves, or 2) to kill prey. My wifes parents have a pair of cobras living in a bamboo grove 50 meters from their house, and they don't seem concerned at all.....

If your father-in-law has dogs around, I don't think there will be much to worry about - snakes and dogs normally don't mix.....

Cheers WhiteShiva, that puts mine and the piglets minds at ease I will sleep more easily at nights when i go there now. Darn, no i won't, nearly forgot about the farang eating ANTS

Nothing to worry about - people in Easan eat ants too, and there are plenty of them to go around. If you do run out of ants, let me know, and I'll send you some from my place....

Yummy, I like Ant Eggs with Chilli... good for you and tasty!

Mot daeng egg omelets... saap eellee der...

It's not me eating them that's the problem, it's the Ants eating me  Every time i go there they devour me. Mosquito's don't usually bother me but Ants love me 

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Perhaps they are smart enough not to bite people who eat them

We had one of these snakes around for weeks. Did a bit of research on the web and bought a book at Asia Books and identified it as very common and MILDLY poisonous.

It hung around the rafters outside and now and then dangled down to see what was going on. Even shed its skin a couple of times. It also caught a mouse - suddenly heard a squealing and saw it being dragged into a hiding place in a flowerpot. The dog was upset he didn't get to the mouse first.

It would frighten the wife when it sometimes slid around above her head, but it's moved on now. Pity really. It was cute and harmless.