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Old 09-08-2014, 12:44 AM
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Default A weird one

You guys want to hear a weird one ?
In early may as I stopped in my gravel drive and opened a R door to get a gas can out I looked over to the brush in the fence row and saw a snake that must be a cobra IMO.
Why ? it stood up like a cobra, it's head bent at the top like one and the neck flattened some it was tan on the back a little gold on the side s and ivory belly 6-7 ' about like a 3/4 garden hose width ,had green eyes too.
It starred at me and I back at it for 15 sec
A bout a week before at night 11pm a car stops out front and I was keeping an eye on it after a few min the guy gets out with a small box and a flashlite then scurries back to the drivers seat 4 mins later he has a dresser drawer does the same thing but ran for his life . mins later using thee lite picks up the drawer and flees.
thru the summer I could here this large snake moving kind of following me and i saw a strange black snake and almost stepped on the tail of a shiny brass snake with broken rock like scales .
a month ago I called animal control they refused to come out unless I knew it was trapped somewhere It was usually in one fence row ,with 10 people we maybe could have got it.
I put down super shock powder to chase it away hopeing it would go to a 20 acre field next door and then die over the winter .
I saw a neighbor out and said ""watch out for a snake " he blurted out "what color ?" and says he saw it 4 ft away when I said Tan
and his dog died after getting out .
in thousand Oaks Cal. last week there was a cobra on the loose that was finnally caught ... hope it was the only one .
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Old 09-08-2014, 12:52 AM
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So.... you saw a cobra where you live? You story is not worded so well..... but if that is the deal, do you not own a shot-gun or something? If not, I think I would have bought one. Legal or not, if I'd have found it it wouldn't have lived long.

We aren't supposed to have bob-cats here but we do. Every now and again, one gets shot. Pretty sure I saw one one evening at dusk. Went to get a rifle, when I got back out it was gone.
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Looks like you need to buy a mongoose.
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Old 09-08-2014, 09:14 PM
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looks like you need to buy a mongoose.
lmao......
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Old 09-08-2014, 10:36 PM
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lmao......
Me too. good one Tim.

Crazy though about you actually seeing that. We have a python problem down in the Everglades, time to make some boots out of these things.
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Old 09-08-2014, 10:40 PM
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heres an awesome mongoose vs cobra video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdg9gkmWsEA

even better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyuIAUlL5IU
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That's an eastern hog nosed snake aka a spreadhead. It rises up like a cobra and flattens it head like a cobra. Look it up on Missouri conservation website. I saw one several years ago spooky looking dam thing!
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Wikipedia has an interesting page on these snakes...but they say the max length is 45 inches...they say they have a particular fondness for toads and are immune to the toads' toxins...
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All snakes are the same. They should all be fed to mongooses. Or fed led pellets from the end of a .410.
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That'd make for some leaky boots...
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