chonabot Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 (edited) Just caught a nice ngoo-singh in my garden whilst clearing grass and other debris. Usual Thai reaction - wife screaming in terror -, hired gardener approaching with our petrol driven grass slayer waving madly. I recognised it fairly quickly ( hello mate : ) Caught it, chased the gardener and wife for a while and then jogged down the lane and released it in an abandoned rat-filled plot down the road. I used to live in South Africa and caught snakes ( including bad ones ) for fun as a nipper. Came back to hear the gardener boast about the 20 foot Cobra he caught last week....... Edited April 26, 2012 by chonabot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chonabot Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 wow not a single view - I won't bother loading the video of me releasing the blighter then..lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenBravo Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 I'm interested. What is the English, or, Latin name for that snake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chonabot Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 Hi Karen - I think tehre are probably too many 'Snake in my Garden ' posts in retrospect to my temper tantrum It is called ' Indo-Chinese rate snake' - Latin - Ptyas korros (Schlegel, 1837). They are very common and sadly get killed bu the hundreds every day - afterwards the owners wonder why the rat/mice population has tripled... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob4you Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Most snakes are harmless even the poison ones is you leave them alone. Thanks for rescuing that one, may he have a long life in the rat field. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundaypsychos Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 great work its a much better trait to catch and release it rather than butcher it like most people seems to do. well done.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goshawk Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 They are very common and sadly get killed bu the hundreds every day ..of which a high % of those end up in the kitchen or local market. Ptyas korros, is a popular food for many Thai people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonsalviz Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 They are very common and sadly get killed bu the hundreds every day ..of which a high % of those end up in the kitchen or local market. Ptyas korros, is a popular food for many Thai people. In the fields they are fine but do not want them near my house. The poison ones, that is. I do try to eliminate their need to be near my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolf5370 Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 Like you Op I'm a snake lover (had them as pets when I was young - Garter snakes and Royal Pythons mostly). Had a few in the house here, couple of Keels and a LoationRat snake once (young one - real beauty). The Keels both left by their own accord with me walking slowly and gently by their side as they high tailed it to the river behind my house. Rat snake hung around for a few days then disappeared. No worries. Much rather have a non venomous (OK Keel are mildly venomous, rear fanged, but you'd have to let the blighter chew on your for half an hour to be dangerous at all) snake in the house than a rat or mouse - I was brought up in the wilds of the Kent country side in the UK (garden of England) and mice could be a real problem especially when the weather got cold. Makes me think of the Great Plague of London (1665) when they killed all the cats thinking they were witches familiars and the cause, when really they were the only things keeping the rat population down - Thais seem to want to club any snake to death, seems like schools should teach some local animal life as part of biology/eccology classes perhaps - not every snake is a deranged King Cobra waiting to pounce. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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