Unwanted Guest

[billd766]

My wife was hanging out the laundry and called out for help so being a good husband I went to do my bit.

We had an unwanted guest curled up comfortably on the laundry frame and refusing to move.

I took one look and said "problem bilong yu" in my best Ingrish from Papua NG.

I went off to find the guy who does part time work for us and after an hour or so he turned up and removed the offender.

About 35 to 40 cm long.

Can anyone tell me what kind it is?

Is it dangerous?

I know they can get inside the house as I managed to get rid of one of them though a different variety.

We have had much bigger ones outside of over 1 metre in length.

[tolsti]

Its a raher beautiful python.... non venemous.

[meatboy]

burmese python and only a baby would have made a good pet and guard,they grow to about

8mts.keep a look out its mum and dad might be close.

[billd766]

About an hour ago a different type came across the front window and strated up to the 2nd floor.

No sign of my man so I used what I had available, Baygone.

A few squirts of that and it jumped off the wall onto the tiles and wriggled away. As soon as it got to the grass it was really moving fast.

This one was about as thick as an average mans fore finger, a sort of brightish green and about 60 or 70 cms long.

Quote Meatboy

burmese python and only a baby would have made a good pet and guard,they grow to about 8mts.keep a look out its mum and dad might be close.

Python bivittatus (Burmese Python)
Thai: (ngu larm)

Length: up to 7m
Most
examples do remain smaller. The longest example was owned by the owner
of a private zoo in Bangkok, Mr. Siah and reached a total length of 8,8
m.

Occurrence:
from North Thailand to the Isthmus of Kra

Behaviour/habitat:
The
dark Tiger Python is an inhabitant of the grassy countryside with trees
and lightly wooded areas. They are often found at the edge of hills and
mountains. Specimens have also been found in the inner city areas of
Bangkok, although less often than the Python reticulatus. These snakes
are active at night and at twilight.
They eat warm-blooded mammals up to the size of a German shepherd. Just
like all pythons, the Dark Tiger Python also lays eggs which it
incubates. The temperature of 31° required for incubation is achieved by
contracting the muscles. A total of up to 100 eggs can be laid. The
largest amount of eggs ever laid was 107 eggs which were approx. 12X6
cm. The young snakes hatch out of their shells after around 58 days.

Danger: The Tiger Python is more of a peaceful snake and does not tend to bite. A
potential danger is present due to its size.

I just don't like snakes.

I couldn't keep it as a pet and if I kept it as a guard I would be in trouble as I don't think it has a passport or work permit to be in Thailand from Burma.

I found a couple of websites on snakes of Thailand

http://www.siam-info.com/english/snakes_common.html

http://www.siam-info.com/english/snakes_poisonous.html

The green one may have been one of these. I didn't intend to get close enough to it to look it in the eyes.

I just wanted it to go away and my trusted friend Baygone helped a lot.

Trimeresurus (Trimeresurus) macrops (Large-eyed Green Pit Viper)
Thai: (ngu kieo hang mi ta to)

Length: up to 72 cm

However these snakes usually only reach a length of around 50 cm.

Occurrence:
Northern and central Thailand. These little poisonous snakes are often found in the area around Bangkok.

Habitat and behaviour:
This is, just like other species of Pit Vipers,
a snake which is active at night. When
twilight falls, these snakes leave their daytime hideouts in bushes and
trees where they sleep curled up in a ball, and go on the hunt in shrubs
and on the ground for frogs, lizards, birds and rodents. Cryptelytrops macrops is easily recognisable from other species of Pit Vipers
due to its large yellow eyes. Although these animals usually sit on
branches and ignore passers-by, they can bite as fast as lightning.

Danger:
Just like other species of Pit Vipers. The poison may be a little stronger than that of Cryptelytrops albolabris. A poisonous bite does not generally lead to major complications.

Edited May 30, 2013 by billd766

[JetsetBkk]

Pythons and Vipers! Jeez, Bill, buy lots of Baygon!

[wayned]

The last python that came to our house was a beautiful one, brown and yellow. My wife ran to get the garden tool to kil it but by the time that she came back I had picked it up and it was wrapped around my arm. The first thing that Im thought was my wife using the excuse that the snake had attacked me and she had to kill us both. But, I walked down the road and let it go. We have a lot of green tree vipers and I usually leave them alone. I just sit and watch them until they magically disappear, hopefully not into the house. I've had golden tree snakes, pythoins and cobras in the house but never a viper.

[billd766]

The last python that came to our house was a beautiful one, brown and yellow. My wife ran to get the garden tool to kil it but by the time that she came back I had picked it up and it was wrapped around my arm. The first thing that Im thought was my wife using the excuse that the snake had attacked me and she had to kill us both. But, I walked down the road and let it go. We have a lot of green tree vipers and I usually leave them alone. I just sit and watch them until they magically disappear, hopefully not into the house. I've had golden tree snakes, pythoins and cobras in the house but never a viper.

The pythowas beautiful and AFAIK is relatively harmless but the viper, nasty thing but also beautiful to look at.

I still hate snakes.

This one was on the way to the upstairs verandah and though it is difficult to get in it is possible to find a way if you are a snake.

He may have been able to get into the guttering and find a way into the roof space from there.

He also wasn't the first we have had nor I suspect will he be the last.

Edited May 31, 2013 by billd766

[Ace of Pop]

We had a Mongoose years ago. It Roamed about ,but i never saw it catch anything, but we never had snakes untill we gave it away.

[Cuban]

I've caught and released elsewhere a few types of snakes I know are not dangerous, the tree vipers stay in the trees, I've killed a Cobra that was an immediate threat some months ago.

We've had a few big pythons in the area in the past, the only ones I've seen were killed, how did you catch/pick-up the python?

Was it early morning, being cold the snake was more sluggish?

As we have no mice etc around the house any snakes are a threat to dogs or kids.