Puffy encounter

[TheJ]

 

Looks like a Rinkhals

 

I agree.

 

http://africanreptiles-venom.co.za/2015/02/13/ringkals-rinkhals-hemachatus-haemachatus/

 

http://africanreptiles-venom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/mini-rinkhals-black1.jpg

[Kranswurm]

Now this is a puffy.

One of my mates in Botswana just outside Gabs

[Sparki 1]

Now this is a puffy.

One of my mates in Botswana just outside Gabs

now what is that bald man doing to that puffy??????

[TheJ]

A few weeks back I was riding with my father, sister, and a friend of hers. Very slowely just cruising a local bike parks "easy" route (Eastern Cape). The friend is riding in front, I'm about 3rd wheel. She screams suddenly and keeps riding. I pass my sister and get up to where she was about 15 meters ahead. As I get there I see a Boomslang at least 2.5m long SPEED over the long grass away from us. The friend just nicked its tail as it was crossing the path. The snake speeds away from us and stops underneath a pine tree, with the leaves and branches starting at least 1.5m off the ground. The Boomslang "stands up", and rockets up into the tree as if someone was pulling it up with a rope. Was amazing to see.

 

15 minutes later...

 

My sister is now leading, we still going very slow. She screams as she just-just misses a nice fat puffy, about 1 meter long. She and her friend races off. I stop to look at the snake. Casually sailing away, not a care in the world.

 

Having seen two snakes in the space of 15 minutes was quite enough, we made for the car park. And this was after riding this trail for over 5 years and not ever seeing one snake. Now two in one ride.

 

I took the family to Plett for a holiday last week and we visited Lawnwood Snake Sanctuary, a very nice place and very imformative (http://www.lawnwoodsnakesanctuary.co.za/).

 

When we got there my 5 year old daughter didn't even want to approach the glass cabinets, ain't no way. By the end of the tour she was holding the "lui slange" and other snakes in her hand, after she saw me doing it.

 

Snakes are probably the most misunderstood animal out there. The guide jumped into a snake pit full of puffies, all around him. None of them bothered to give him the time of the day. He even kicked his leg towards one a few times. If anything they just want to get away. So if you don't mess when them, they won't mess with you. If they don't feel threatened they more than likely won't try to bite you. The oke was kicking at the snake and the puffy was like, meh. 

 

I'm going on a snake course on Saturday, learn a bit more.

[TheJ]

Now this is a puffy.

One of my mates in Botswana just outside Gabs

 

Hope he didn't kill it.

[leeubok]

We have a massive mozambique spitting cobra (Mfezi) living in our house roof. I've seen him 3 times now. The first time I walked outside right underneath him and only realized there's something there when I felt something wet on the back of my neck. Looked up and there he was. He sleeps in the roof under the "think pink" woolly stuff, above our bedroom. When it was a little warmer still we could hear him moving around at night. I'm hoping it's a HE and not a SHE looking for a nice place to lay eggs. I don't want 10's of baby mfezi's in my house! 

[Sparki 1]

We have a massive mozambique spitting cobra (Mfezi) living in our house roof. I've seen him 3 times now. The first time I walked outside right underneath him and only realized there's something there when I felt something wet on the back of my neck. Looked up and there he was. He sleeps in the roof under the "think pink" woolly stuff, above our bedroom. When it was a little warmer still we could hear him moving around at night. I'm hoping it's a HE and not a SHE looking for a nice place to lay eggs. I don't want 10's of baby mfezi's in my house! 

aha, the "perfect bed companion" hope you guys don't sleep too tight hey. other than that, they beauts of a snake!

[Kranswurm]

We have a massive mozambique spitting cobra (Mfezi) living in our house roof. I've seen him 3 times now. The first time I walked outside right underneath him and only realized there's something there when I felt something wet on the back of my neck. Looked up and there he was. He sleeps in the roof under the "think pink" woolly stuff, above our bedroom. When it was a little warmer still we could hear him moving around at night. I'm hoping it's a HE and not a SHE looking for a nice place to lay eggs. I don't want 10's of baby mfezi's in my house! 

You better get rid of it.It probably is a female.We had one cruising our house and garden in Botswana,One day we had exactly that little 200mm long babies scuttling in from the verandah where they had hatched.

She became a real pest chasing frogs and mice into the house that I had to get rid of her

[Mojoman]

We have a massive mozambique spitting cobra (Mfezi) living in our house roof. I've seen him 3 times now. The first time I walked outside right underneath him and only realized there's something there when I felt something wet on the back of my neck. Looked up and there he was. He sleeps in the roof under the "think pink" woolly stuff, above our bedroom. When it was a little warmer still we could hear him moving around at night. I'm hoping it's a HE and not a SHE looking for a nice place to lay eggs. I don't want 10's of baby mfezi's in my house! 

Years ago I used to help my dad who did household electrical work.  I was assigned to do some work up in the ceiling and when I pulled back some of the think pink insulation there was a big ass snake skin under it, my nerves were shot!....From that point onwards I kept my eyes open whenever I had to be up in a ceiling!

[Kranswurm]

Hope he didn't kill it.

Looks dead as a dodo to me

[BrandonF_]

Looks dead as a dodo to me

Atleast looks more alive than the dog...

[leeubok]

yeah I've tried getting rid of our housemate. Unfortunately it's pretty clever, and it disappeared somewhere between the roof tiles and plastic sheeting. I climbed into the roof (with a shotgun) and had another guy wait outside where I thought it goes in and out. But it outfoxed us somehow. We've seen probably 15 of them in our garden in the last year. I really don't like killing snakes but with 3 small kids in the house the risk is just too high. The nearest hospital with antivenom is about 3-4 hours drive away.

 

Not the one in my roof but another one I could get some decent pics of:

[TheJ]

yeah I've tried getting rid of our housemate. Unfortunately it's pretty clever, and it disappeared somewhere between the roof tiles and plastic sheeting. I climbed into the roof (with a shotgun) and had another guy wait outside where I thought it goes in and out. But it outfoxed us somehow. We've seen probably 15 of them in our garden in the last year. I really don't like killing snakes but with 3 small kids in the house the risk is just too high. The nearest hospital with antivenom is about 3-4 hours drive away.

 

Not the one in my roof but another one I could get some decent pics of:

Mfezi3.JPG

Mfezi2.JPG

 

Look the more I've been reading up on Snakes and following Facebook groups the more I am against killing them, but blixim. 15 of these in my yard and I'm burning the house down.

[Sparki 1]

yeah I've tried getting rid of our housemate. Unfortunately it's pretty clever, and it disappeared somewhere between the roof tiles and plastic sheeting. I climbed into the roof (with a shotgun) and had another guy wait outside where I thought it goes in and out. But it outfoxed us somehow. We've seen probably 15 of them in our garden in the last year. I really don't like killing snakes but with 3 small kids in the house the risk is just too high. The nearest hospital with antivenom is about 3-4 hours drive away.

 

Not the one in my roof but another one I could get some decent pics of:

Mfezi3.JPG

Mfezi2.JPG

:eek: :eek: so many where you live!!!

[BrandonF_]

yeah I've tried getting rid of our housemate. Unfortunately it's pretty clever, and it disappeared somewhere between the roof tiles and plastic sheeting. I climbed into the roof (with a shotgun) and had another guy wait outside where I thought it goes in and out. But it outfoxed us somehow. We've seen probably 15 of them in our garden in the last year. I really don't like killing snakes but with 3 small kids in the house the risk is just too high. The nearest hospital with antivenom is about 3-4 hours drive away.

 

Not the one in my roof but another one I could get some decent pics of:

Mfezi3.JPG

Mfezi2.JPG

....liewe hel dude!?? Hoe op aarde slaap jy???...ek sal dag en nag reg op sit van vrees!! Edited May 16, 2016 by Brandon78

[fanievb]

yeah I've tried getting rid of our housemate. Unfortunately it's pretty clever, and it disappeared somewhere between the roof tiles and plastic sheeting. I climbed into the roof (with a shotgun) and had another guy wait outside where I thought it goes in and out. But it outfoxed us somehow. We've seen probably 15 of them in our garden in the last year. I really don't like killing snakes but with 3 small kids in the house the risk is just too high. The nearest hospital with antivenom is about 3-4 hours drive away.

 

Not the one in my roof but another one I could get some decent pics of:

Mfezi3.JPG

Mfezi2.JPG

 

norrafok

 

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