Golden tree snake.

[overherebc]

Just taken me 30 minutes to convince one to leave the garage. Seems they don't like being guided by a stick and don't understand 'my dog will kill you if you stay here' .

At last got it to leave into the spare ground outside. You can actually feel the bite through the stick. Probably about a metre long and got quite aggressive during the eviction.

[overherebc]

Sitting watching Tele' at the minute and just heard the maid squeal in the garden. It's obviously moved back in again.

[bluebluewater]

I have been able to get my maid squeal in the garden from time to time.  It was good for me. 

 

There was a snake involved.  This snake had nothing to do with either gold or trees.

[lemonjelly]

Golden tree snakes as you probably know, are arboreal and harmless. Just leave it alone, I'm sure it'll find a safe escape route in its own time.

[lemonjelly]

4 minutes ago, bluebluewater said:

I have been able to get my maid squeal in the garden from time to time.  It was good for me. 

 

There was a snake involved.  This snake had nothing to do with either gold or trees.

Well done you....... zzzzzz

[jeanpierre]

make it yourself easy and safe put the snake free some where safe

[overherebc]

16 minutes ago, jeanpierre said:

make it yourself easy and safe put the snake free some where safe

Always a bit worried I might choke it to death but I'll make one anyway.

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[Crossy]

I always find goldens are WAY too fast for me to catch with any sort of net or string thing. An open door and gentle persuasion seems to do the trick.

 

They, and their green friends are welcome in our garden, just stay out of the house please.

 

Latest visitor (currently outside, hope he stays there) is a tukgae gecko.

[overherebc]

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

I always find goldens are WAY too fast for me to catch with any sort of net or string thing. An open door and gentle persuasion seems to do the trick.

 

They, and their green friends are welcome in our garden, just stay out of the house please.

 

Latest visitor (currently outside, hope he stays there) is a tukgae gecko.

Had one in the garage for a while about a foot long. I think it's still about, sounds like it anyway. My wife always asked me to get her car out when it was visible, really don't know why so many people are scared of them. This one was covered in really bright spots, quite a few different colours. Hissed a bit if you went near it.

[dick dasterdly]

On 4/9/2017 at 9:52 AM, lemonjelly said:

Golden tree snakes as you probably know, are arboreal and harmless. Just leave it alone, I'm sure it'll find a safe escape route in its own time.

Not really an option when you know your dogs will kill it - unless swiftly ejected whilst keeping the dogs at bay during the process.

 

Golden Tree snakes can be suprisingly aggressive though when being moved along with a broom/stick etc.!

[wpcoe]

I had a series of golden tree snakes in a townhouse I rented once, and one thing I noticed is that when they were panicked -- like when I was trying to get them out of the house -- they always shot into the nearest small opening.  In the ceiling-less kitchen it would be inside the open-ended frames under the roof.  In the living room once it was the round cable openings in the TV cabinet.  So, I wonder if you were to place a closed cardboard box with a round hole ... maybe 5 cm diameter? ... in the area when you try to round it up, if the snake would home in on the opening and slither into the box.  Then you could cover the hole and transport the box miles away and release it.  This is all just theory, but worth a shot?

 

And, Crossy is right, those suckers are *fast*!

[overherebc]

On 15/04/2017 at 9:23 AM, wpcoe said:

I had a series of golden tree snakes in a townhouse I rented once, and one thing I noticed is that when they were panicked -- like when I was trying to get them out of the house -- they always shot into the nearest small opening.  In the ceiling-less kitchen it would be inside the open-ended frames under the roof.  In the living room once it was the round cable openings in the TV cabinet.  So, I wonder if you were to place a closed cardboard box with a round hole ... maybe 5 cm diameter? ... in the area when you try to round it up, if the snake would home in on the opening and slither into the box.  Then you could cover the hole and transport the box miles away and release it.  This is all just theory, but worth a shot?

 

And, Crossy is right, those suckers are *fast*!

I did once read a description of a similar 'trap'.

A box big enough to place one of those sticky rat trap plates inside and a 2" hole in the corner with a bit of pipe.

When the snake gets well stuck you can take plate and snake somewhere and cover the whole thing with cooking oil. It's supposed to slowly soften the 'sticky' and the snake will get free.