About five months ago I heard my wife screeching. She is normally not afraid of anything so I went running. We have a steel frame screen door and at the top of it was a spitting cobra. It did spit at her but since it was caught in the door it missed her eyes and hit her upper arm. I grabbed a pair of glasses and a butcher knife. I killed the snake and put it on the burning pile. By the time I got my camera the snake was gone. Our handyman took it home to eat so no pictures. I am about a head taller than my wife. If it would have been me going out that door the snake may have bitten me in the head.

The day before yesterday she was hollering at me. I went out and there was another cobra under a cabinet in the outside kitchen. After poking at it with a long piece of bamboo, it got away. Yesterday it or another one came back. It was in the same place. A neighbor heard my wife and a friend of hers shouting he came over and managed to kill the snake. He took it home to eat. Today my four month old puppy was barking and he wouldn't stop. I finally saw what had him upset, another cobra. I managed to kill this one. Thais normally call most snakes cobras regardless of whether they are or not. I can assure you that those three were genuine cobras. When you hear that snake hiss and spread his hood, you can't mistake what it is. I normally don't kill snakes but cobras are beyond the line.

We've had a few cobra encounters on our property over the years......but since the reemergence of a team of mongoose (พังพอน), we haven't seen any.
One day our dogs alerted on a snake hidden well beneath a large landscaping rock. I inserted a long piece of bamboo to try and drive it out. The snake hissed.......loudly.....scared the pee out of me. Then our dog stuck her nose in there and got shot up with an eye full of cobra spit....before the snake emerged and was killed by our 3 dogs. My wife washed out the dog's eyes with water.....more water......jungle juice.....more water and then more. One of the dog's eyes was recessed so far back, we were sure it would be blind. But 3 days later.....all was well.

I think that in the forest you would rarely see a cobra. They are very shy and will normally get away from the noise you are making before you see them.

It's when they are cornered that they are dangerous. Around the house there are many places for them to hide. If you get too close, it can be dangerous. We have lived in this house for more than ten years and until this year have never seen a cobra. Once in a while we would see a few harmless snakes but never cobras.

To get three in a short space of time might indicate that there is a "family" of the b*ggers and they have about 20 at a time so be very very careful glalt

stattointhailand wrote: ↑

October 18, 2018, 6:00 pm

To get three in a short space of time might indicate that there is a "family" of the b*ggers and they have about 20 at a time so be very very careful glalt

I took my bamboo stick and VERY cautiously walked around the yard. I found a suspicious hole in the ground and stuck the hose in it. I turned on the water and watched the hole. Nothing came out. Water ran in the hole for five hours and it never filled up. Tomorrow I'll fill the hole with cement. I have no idea if that's where the snakes came from but obviously there is room in that hole for a LOT of snakes or other critters.

Isnt this the time of year that their eggs hatch ?
I know that the mother stays with her eggs for about 12 weeks and only leaves them a day or so before they hatch , for fear her hunger will get the better of her and she may be tempted to eat her own young .
Maybe thats whats happened here.
Maybe the snake you killed was the mother . That would explain her aggresive behavior , as normally they are afraid of human contact and will not waste venom on something they cant eat , unless provoked.
They like to make a nest in a moist hot spot during the rainy season . A nice pile of old leaves will do them just fine .
And remember that the young ones have venom the day they hatch so be careful . Very hard to recognise a young cobra because they dont have the distinctive cobra makings that young .

http://factsanddetails.com/asian/cat68/ ... m2436.html
https://www.thailandsnakes.com/venomous ... ry-deadly/
and they don't have the distinctive cobra makings that young ...wrong !...yes they have (monocled kind) as info

90% of snake bites occur when humans try and kill the snake forcing it to attack, best to just leave them be, they are scared of humans, let them move on. I see so many on my land and never a problem, try and kill them and your putting yourself in danger.

Well thank you kopkei for pointing that out to me , i appreciate it.
The more info we have on snakes the better.
Unlike others i have no problem admitting my mistakes .

had a small baby kingcobra in my home hid on the timber frames called the snake guys ,when they found it and got it down ,you could see the fear in there eyes

I have heard people say that snakes don't like lemon grass. Don't believe it. On one of our small farms there is a large bunch of lemon grass on the pond bank. I was walking around the pond and when I got within about five feet from the lemon grass, A large snake stood up. I jumped back so fast that I fell on my butt. When I got up the snake was gone and I saw it swimming across the pond. I didn't get a very good look at it and have no idea what it even was except that it was big. If I were going to have a heart attack, I would have had it right there.

Brian Davis wrote: ↑

October 19, 2018, 2:51 pm

fatbob wrote: ↑

October 19, 2018, 8:32 am

90% of snake bites occur when humans try and kill the snake forcing it to attack, best to just leave them be, they are scared of humans, let them move on. I see so many on my land and never a problem, try and kill them and your putting yourself in danger.

I'd be very happy to have any snake 'move on'. I value my dogs in letting me know of something or somebody in or near the house and the dogs are usually the first on to a snake. They usually kill it, but a cobra, I think, has been one exception. Dangerous or not, I don't want it in the house, or the cause of a racket in the middle of the night. That's when I'm obliged to get involved.

Well you will get bitten and deserve it, Oh what is it? Lets kill it....

Any snake that is seen near my house is dispatched ASAP and eaten by the neighbours.

I agree with Brian . If your not the one to protect your home and family then who is ?
We have plenty of snakes in this neck of the woods including a few Kingcobras.
On all occasions of being confronted with a snake the snake has either given a warning im too close or slithered off to pastures new.
Fortunately non have ever tried to enter the house, a full grown monitor had a wander around once , which freaked the Mrs out , but no snakes .
As much as i love a bit of wildlife and respect that snakes are important to the eco system here , i too would evict one from the house and if killing it was the only ,or safest way of doing it , it will be dispatched to snake navarna.

Why lift it over the wall? So it can climb back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEQ9NJuqnGE

Leave them alone, stamp your feet or bang the ground with something heavy and they will take off.

Hi there, since we are talking about cobras, anyone can identify this fella for me please? Unfortunately it is already without the head bit still in piece on the photo( just before it went into Tom Yam Snake;) ). Went inside the house in the farm, and uncle smashed it with large stick, said it was a cobra...

Thanks,
Mike

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