Our little hero mutt

We have a Thai mutt, hardest headed animal I have ever ran across tough as nails. But he brings a lot fo fun and enjoyment to our house, But he has this uncanty ability to find snakes. I don't know if he smells them or what. Yesterday about dusk, he went just nuts. If it's passerby that he doesnt know usually doesn't take much to get him to stop barking. But he just would not stop we checked didn't see a thing and he just kept at it. Then we saw the problem a brown snake about 18 inches long lying right in the gate track, we would have never seen him. This is the third one he has alerted us to.


We ended up sweeping him down the street, wife wouldnt let me kill it. I asked if it was dangerous, wife didn't know. But still wouldn't let me kill it, I have mixed feelings about that one, But if I knew it was dangerous I would have killed, but I didn't know.

There are times these pets do things for us that we can't do. I'm glad we have the guy. He seems smart enough not to get in striking distance cause that certainly is the posture this snake took, it wasn't just going away. Letting us knw about the intruder is good enough.

Maybe the snake was your earthquake alarm Happy New Year!

Boy I hope not that is one thing I don't miss at all. This is the first tiem in my life that I have no lived in a earthquake zone.

I hope you didn't push it toward our house!

No it opted to live in the drain, probably lots of things to eat there. Eventually I think it will find it's way out, where it goes who knows. I'm sure you will get your own wiht no help from us

Don't know about your snake Ray, but the local know everything man tells me if its non poisonous it will slither away, it it assumes a striking pose, then its most definitely lethal.

Well this was all this wanted to do coil up and strike, took a lot of effort to get it going. It definetly tried to stand it's ground.

You get my PM?

Hey Ray, think you can pick out your snake from a photo line up

poisonous:
http://www.siam-info.de/english/snakes_poisonous.html

non-poisonous:
http://www.siam-info.de/english/snakes_ ... onous.html

Well those sites are now bookmarked since I have had encounters four times wih snakes in homes here. I would say nonposionous coundn't say exactly which one but none in the othe catergory resembled it except the brown colored cobra. This did not hood up when it coiled to strike, so I don't think that was what it was.

Thanks I will spend sometime getting familiar with the line up, something good to know here.

In the Southern deserts of California a little easier since the one who would do you in rattled.

[In the Southern deserts of California a little easier since the one who would do you in rattled.[/quote]

Palmdale/lancaster area

Close Palm Springs

Sometimes they rattle after the fact and that's a little bit too late. Sometimes they don't rattle before or after. The only thing that's consistant about rattlesnakes is they're inconsistant.

That seems like a very good reason not to play with em