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Old Jan 2nd 2008 | 3:31 pm
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Originally Posted by annqldau
The size of stick insects here you'd need a fish tank to keep them in.
nope dont like them either, my sisters ex used to keep one it lived on a cheese plant
 
Old Jan 2nd 2008 | 4:43 pm
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Originally Posted by bobbyftm
Pretty hard to say who would be scared the most face to face like !!
It's best not to try face to face, it normally means the human dies...
 
Old Jan 2nd 2008 | 7:07 pm
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s**t girl i live in pine rivers too~~ obviously had my happy goggles on, hoping there werent any up here!
not seen any browns like yours yet (touching every piece of wood possible) but seen a carpet snake when we lived on the southside and apparently there was a nice 10ft black snake at currimundi a couple of months ago, whilst we were in the water, but missed that one too, obviously had my happy goggles on then too!!!
i live in hope that i wont see one, otherwise i would cardiac there and then, and then shat my pants lol!!!
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Old Jan 2nd 2008 | 10:17 pm
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This one was spotted by my kids today on our veranda, we think it's just a tree snake and not dangerous.....the woman over the road reckons she had a 12 foot python in her garden!
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Took my 'Dangerous Animals of Australia' book with me on our reccie so I'd know what we got bit by ........................ didn't see one snake except at Australia Zoo.

However back in the UK last week walking the dogs found a 2 1/2 - 3' dead grass snake which was massive!!!
 
Old Jan 3rd 2008 | 5:03 pm
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Saw this little fellow in the garden the other day. Didn't know what type it was but after looking in the 'Wildlife of Greater Brisbane' book it looks like it is a Keelback (freshwater) snake. It is non venomous thank goodness, as the cat was trying to play with it later on.
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Old Jan 4th 2008 | 9:15 am
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Originally Posted by vb2
s**t girl i live in pine rivers too~~ obviously had my happy goggles on, hoping there werent any up here!
not seen any browns like yours yet (touching every piece of wood possible) but seen a carpet snake when we lived on the southside and apparently there was a nice 10ft black snake at currimundi a couple of months ago, whilst we were in the water, but missed that one too, obviously had my happy goggles on then too!!!
i live in hope that i wont see one, otherwise i would cardiac there and then, and then shat my pants lol!!!
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Pine rivers good spot for snakes all that water around plus lots of acreage and bush/nice big forests for them to regroup in.

Best to put your googles on and look at the wood rather than touch and avoid wood piles and long grass...
 
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Originally Posted by confusedpom
Saw this little fellow in the garden the other day. Didn't know what type it was but after looking in the 'Wildlife of Greater Brisbane' book it looks like it is a Keelback (freshwater) snake. It is non venomous thank goodness, as the cat was trying to play with it later on.
Good shot what ever he is.

Originally Posted by wannabauzzienurse
This one was spotted by my kids today on our veranda, we think it's just a tree snake and not dangerous.....the woman over the road reckons she had a 12 foot python in her garden!
He definitely has a green glow so tree snake could be right.

Originally Posted by marvinc
Took my 'Dangerous Animals of Australia' book with me on our reccie so I'd know what we got bit by ........................ didn't see one snake except at Australia Zoo.

However back in the UK last week walking the dogs found a 2 1/2 - 3' dead grass snake which was massive!!!
Don't forget if you ever do get bit leave the venom on don't wipe it off, as that's what they use to find out what sort of snake you were bit by. Hospitals have special kits that test it.
 
Old Jan 9th 2008 | 11:23 pm
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my cat loves bringing home snakes for us to see, she brought us home a lovely very angry taipan last year and this year she brought us home 2 brown snakes...we lived right by the river at the time.
Now live in a more populated area so hoping that we don't get so many....
 
Old Jan 13th 2008 | 9:56 am
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Originally Posted by jimtrish
my cat loves bringing home snakes for us to see, she brought us home a lovely very angry taipan last year and this year she brought us home 2 brown snakes...we lived right by the river at the time.
Now live in a more populated area so hoping that we don't get so many....
Hello, how you doing?

So do you prefer population to river?

She must be down quite a few lives by now.
 
Old Jan 13th 2008 | 10:37 am
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Originally Posted by jimtrish
my cat loves bringing home snakes for us to see, she brought us home a lovely very angry taipan last year and this year she brought us home 2 brown snakes...we lived right by the river at the time.
Now live in a more populated area so hoping that we don't get so many....
we are hoping to move onto a bush block and that's what worries me - the cats bringing home little presents like that...
 
Old Jan 13th 2008 | 12:12 pm
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we are hoping to move onto a bush block and that's what worries me - the cats bringing home little presents like that...
It's a true competition of skill and speed that only one will win.
 
Old Jan 13th 2008 | 12:15 pm
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There I was yesterday, gurnying the back of the house, n along wanders a 6ft brown snake..

Bless, as i reached for my broom.. he did too !

Needless to say, thank god for quilted dunny paper !!
 
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Originally Posted by annqldau
It's a true competition of skill and speed that only one will win.
The first snake my cat brought me home wasn't too impressed with being dumped at our doorstep...got so upset that its head fell off(with a little help!)
It wasn't til afterwards that I realised that I had been in contact with a taipan...apparantly all the colour drained from me.
Gotta love the cat though, she must have used about 4 lives in the last 2yrs!
 
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Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au
There I was yesterday, gurnying the back of the house, n along wanders a 6ft brown snake..

Bless, as i reached for my broom.. he did too !

Needless to say, thank god for quilted dunny paper !!
Could you not have aimed the pressure washer at him would have thought that would have either got rid of him or p!ssed him off?

Where's the photo then, Deb not take one?
 


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