since a few days (or weeks) my wife was shocked by a hissing sound probably of a snake. She is now afraid to open the door again. So am I. What can we do? Please don't tell me not to open the door again.... I would expect good advices and no bullshit.....

Ask a neighbour, in my neck of the woods in Isaan they are a delicacy for laab.Free service for killing them as long as they get the carcass. Thai men pride themselves in killing snakes and chopping up for dinner, apperently it gives big power to the you know what.

Seriously open the door - this too shall pass. It's probably gone by now on the hunt for food.

No need to kill a snake IMO, but worse case tell/ask the locals they are fearless and will capture and release.

BTW I don't like them either.

If you live around Pattaya, contact

Sawang Boriboon Rescue Foundation

Tel. 038-488882

Many articles on ThaiVisa about these guys coming out and catching snakes.

Hate snakes and spiders. Must be something wrong with my Psyche.

Did you actually see the snake? It's a good idea to ID the beast. Before the hunter becomes the hunted.

Help from locals is the ideal solution. Unless you want to call the rescue team.

Thanks God I live in a high rise apt... Sounds like a bad story before the bed time...

BTW, opening the cupboard doors might be a problem if she is aggressive. Keep the exit door open just in case one of you want to make a run for it...

Edited October 21, 201312 yr by ABCer

Hate snakes and spiders....

Thanks God I live in a high rise apt...

don't rest so assuredly.... in Thailand, several species of snake & all spiders are quite adept climbers. ....

Seriously open the door - this too shall pass. It's probably gone by now on the hunt for food.

No need to kill a snake IMO, but worse case tell/ask the locals they are fearless and will capture and release.

BTW I don't like them either.

LOL, I have never seen a Thai capture a snake that wasn't bashed dozens of times with a stick first. Well there was the one time my teenage retarded (actually mentally retarded) brother in law caught a snake and put it in a wooden box he made. He proudly brought it to me because he had seen me catch and release snakes. Luckily it was just a golden tree snake. He was shocked at the reaction of the family and all the neighbors coming by to yell at him for doing something so crazy.

Here's one from a couple weeks ago. I'd just lifted the lid in so I could take a whiz, guess I woke the sucker up. Needless to say, I went out and watered the flowers....

Mac

ask a Contoness, these guys eat everything they catch, and they good at catching things.

though i heard sometimes they use mouse as bait.

Here's one from a couple weeks ago. I'd just lifted the lid in so I could take a whiz, guess I woke the sucker up. Needless to say, I went out and watered the flowers....

Mac

good to see you keep that toilet nice and clean

huh, so you ran out of bait.

Here's one from a couple weeks ago. I'd just lifted the lid in so I could take a whiz, guess I woke the sucker up. Needless to say, I went out and watered the flowers....

Mac

good to see you keep that toilet nice and clean

Never met a Thai snake that hissed. Might be a hissing beetle. They hiss real loud but not dangerous at all.

Here's one from a couple weeks ago.  I'd just lifted the lid in so I could take a whiz, guess I woke the sucker up.  Needless to say, I went out and watered the flowers....

 

Mac

 

 

He was cleaning your toilet.

Here's one from a couple weeks ago. I'd just lifted the lid in so I could take a whiz, guess I woke the sucker up. Needless to say, I went out and watered the flowers....

Mac

He was cleaning your toilet.

Yes...good idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never met a Thai snake that hissed. Might be a hissing beetle. They hiss real loud but not dangerous at all.

Although Cobras do not technically "hiss" that is a close approximation to the noises that they make, I have first hand experience of this.

There are various ways to catch and release common Thai snakes although if you are in a town/city there are plenty around you that will do so faster than you can learn on the job.

If you are keen to tackle the snake beware that some cobras spit so wear glasses.

Guess it is a cobra, they hiss like cats. just open the door and left the place, it will go away. be careful if you corn it it will attack.

Don't know why you need to kill the snake ? But when i am home in Queensland ( which has the 10 most venomous snakes in the world) i have a simple way to catch them.

I have a piece of 20mm electrical conduit about 6 ft long, thread a length of rope , say 4mm thick, through the pipe then double it back leaving a loop at the end, knot the held end. Then just approach the snake , let it put its head through the loop, pull it tight and there you have the snake firmly on the end................easy .

More people get bitten when "interacting" with snakes than just leaving them be.

But you have a challenge there and maybe just cant let it be.

Saw a few posts how you put decent double sided sticky tape on the inside bottom floor a cardboard box about 18x 18 inches square and leave in a corner of the room or beside a wall where they are more likely to slither than in the centre of the room.

There are two entrance holes, one in each end of the box and near the side near the wall of the room.

The box seems to contain the snake a bit so when it thrashes around, it gets more "stuck up".

They do get stuck and there many pics to prove it.

"If" you want to release it, apply cooking oil and the sticky tape slowly lets go.

Be careful !!!

Edited October 22, 201312 yr by Jing Joe

The conduit idea from OLD SAILOR35 is good and I have only caught carpet/python snakes this way.

They are very powerful and not so easy putting into a bag even as non-venemous as they are.

I would'nt trust handling a deady one in a bag, I'd kill it there and then.

Pouring boiling water on them in difficult places is effective but not instant apparently.

Rat shot in a .22 rifle is great indoors.

I never tell a thai about a snake in the garden anymore as they always come round and kill it dangerous or not.Now I just chase them with broom so far no problem.Don't think I would chase a cobra though.!!!

Ask your local neighbours to come and get the snake as previously stated.

This will be great for local interaction on your part & may save you some

serious hospital time.

Here's one from a couple weeks ago. I'd just lifted the lid in so I could take a whiz, guess I woke the sucker up. Needless to say, I went out and watered the flowers....

Mac

That looks like a bum gun to me.

But, since I passed sixty and became a grumpy old bastard, my eyes have been playing tricks on me.

Salt should help.Spread rocksalt around your house and in to your storage room.

Salt should help.Spread rocksalt around your house and in to your storage room.

Put the salt on the rim of about a dozen margaritas and you'll forget all about the snake.

and the filthy toilet

Here's one from a couple weeks ago. I'd just lifted the lid in so I could take a whiz, guess I woke the sucker up. Needless to say, I went out and watered the flowers....

Mac

good to see you keep that toilet nice and clean

understandable when the maid is scared of Cantones eating snakes in that toilet.

Here's one from a couple weeks ago. I'd just lifted the lid in so I could take a whiz, guess I woke the sucker up. Needless to say, I went out and watered the flowers....

Mac

That looks like a bum gun to me.

But, since I passed sixty and became a grumpy old bastard, my eyes have been playing tricks on me. alt=unsure.png>

Good try Mac. but so's every one knows it is not a snake but "The Blob Fish, A slimy pink Australian fish which resembles a grumpy and obese old man with a bulbous nose has been voted the world's ugliest animal" ABC internet news.

Edited October 22, 201312 yr by Jing Joe

Hate snakes and spiders....

Thanks God I live in a high rise apt...

don't rest so assuredly.... in Thailand, several species of snake & all spiders are quite adept climbers. ....

That's true. I saw a snake climb up a 5 story building on an external drain pipe to the roof. It took him about 5 minutes. This was in downtown Bangkok.

Here's one from a couple weeks ago. I'd just lifted the lid in so I could take a whiz, guess I woke the sucker up. Needless to say, I went out and watered the flowers....

Mac

I knew that snake when he hadn't a pot to HISS in.

Never met a Thai snake that hissed. Might be a hissing beetle. They hiss real loud but not dangerous at all.

Hate to tell you this but monocled cobras stand and hiss at you, I know because they have done it to me. almost stepped next to one until I heard it hissing. Scared the crap out of me, I was just walking down the footpath next to the house and didnt expect a cobra to be there, the hissing saved me or I would have been bittten as I was just able to step away in time. Snakes hiss, better believe it.