This is not what I expected to step on… in my kitchen:
He figured out how to escape the tupperware before we could get a coin out for scale, but, if he ever stretched out straight, I would guess it would measure about a good six inches or so. Apparently it is a ringneck snake, probably a northern one at that, and is currently out in our flowerbeds.
I need a drink.
There would have been bullet holes in my floor. I love what they do. I think they are pretty.. but they can stay WAY over there.
The difference between the first and second pictures is shocking. =)
boots, belts, wallets
AHHHH i’d shit bricks. Are they venomous? I ctrl+F’d the page you linked for “venom” and “poison” and nothing came up.
Is that thing poisonous? The only thing poisonous around here is a rattler. We had a viper in a little toy-boat pond my dad dug after it filled-up with water – no more playing or splashing in the water… And cobras in the bamboo across the soccer pitch.
Guessing you really didn’t need that evening cup of coffee to keep you going, eh?
@Patrick – Oh hell yes. Once we figured out what it was, and a way of safely transporting it, we got it right out of the house, tout de suite. That little guy can go hunt bugs somewhere else.
@Rustmeister – jaynev(“He looked bigger when I couldn’t see him.);
@kahr40 – Eh, too small. Supposedly these only grow to about a foot. Only.
@Mike-ENDOtactical – They are not strictly venomous, but they do generate some kind of poison out of things that are not venom glands, but it is only used to get food, not defensively, primarily because they do not have “real” fangs. Seems to me that “poison” and “sharp, pointy teeth” are enough, but I am not a snake person…
@DirtCrashr – Supposedly we have rattlers here too, but this little thing was definitely enough for me.
@Bob S. – Hell, more of a problem of actually being able to go to bed!
While being only slightly venomous, those are pretty much harmless to humans.
Chances are that even if it managed to bite you – you wouldn’t even get any of the venom, thanks to their fangs being in the rear of their tiny little mouths.
Yeah. You go test that. I will be over thataway somewhere
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