Yes, they are docile....but this thing was hungry!! I can't just let it eat Murphy. While it was half out the window I should have chopped it in half with scissors! SNIP! Straight through the belly. Nah, I actually felt a little bit mean writing that....just a little.
If you have to kill it, be sure to eat it and make a belt out of its skin. I don't want to see it going to waste.
We killed a snake up at mum and dad's when I lived there....I was about 18 or so. We chopped it's head off....it was really fiesty and kept coming back in the house....something had really pissed this snake off and mum was terrified. Anyway, once it was headless I got the chopping board out and skinned it! I couldn't believe how easily the skin slid off the meat....just put a slice down its belly and pulled the skin off. Nowhere near as much resistance as I was expecting. And you could see what it had been eating inside and I was checking out its backbone etc. Very very interesting. Sometimes I think I should have done something in the medical profession. And as I sat at the kitchen table, mum comes in and all she said was "Ohhh not the good chopping board, Susan!!!"
How many rattlesnakes are generally in these "nests"? Do they all curl up together and hibernate? I know nothing about rattlesnakes. There were some in True Grit though that were asleep and got woken up. How long do they sleep for?
Rattlesnakes are awesome and amazingly quick strikers. A mongoose might fuck with a cobra, but it will lose a fight with a rattlesnake. They are just too quick. Anyway, they hibernate depending on the weather. Basically when it drops below roughly 60 degrees on a regular basis they will find a place to sleep and will emerge once it gets over 60 once again. Some hibernate alone, sometimes hundreds of them get together in a "ball". True Grit basically showed a small hibernating nest that were slow to awaken.
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Poor birdie!!! Murphy looks like such a sweet little bird. I'm glad the snake left it alone. Please take care over there, I hate snakes :?
She's lovely! Such a good bird. They live about 15 years or so.
We named her after Robocop because we thought she was a boy for the first 4-5 years. We were going to teach her to talk -- we were going to say "Nice shooting, son. What's your name?" and get her to reply "Murphy" after the line in Robocop....but she ended up laying an egg one day....which explains why she never talked....boys talk, girls don't. My sister's Rainbow Lorikeet is male and he sings songs like "What's new pussy cat, woooaoohoohhoaa" (over and over and over :? ) and talks like my sister and barks like the dogs and mimics the pool fence etc. Sooo smart! Murphy just sits there looking pretty....waiting to be eaten by snakes!
I think I'd be driven insane if Murphy talked all day long in all honesty. I'm glad she's a girl in hindsight.
I actually knew a guy who fell into a nest of rattlesnakes. They were so sleepy and slow he got out before being bit, but after that, he was all sorts of freaked out by snakes. Didn't cure him at all. Imagine that...
isn't that a scene from an Indiana Jones movie? just because you liked the movie doesn't mean Harrison Ford is your 'friend'......
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
I actually knew a guy who fell into a nest of rattlesnakes. They were so sleepy and slow he got out before being bit, but after that, he was all sorts of freaked out by snakes. Didn't cure him at all. Imagine that...
isn't that a scene from an Indiana Jones movie? just because you liked the movie doesn't mean Harrison Ford is your 'friend'......
I never said Indy was my friend... I mean, "the guy" who fell into the snake nest.
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I actually knew a guy who fell into a nest of rattlesnakes. They were so sleepy and slow he got out before being bit, but after that, he was all sorts of freaked out by snakes. Didn't cure him at all. Imagine that...
isn't that a scene from an Indiana Jones movie? just because you liked the movie doesn't mean Harrison Ford is your 'friend'......
How many rattlesnakes are generally in these "nests"? Do they all curl up together and hibernate? I know nothing about rattlesnakes. There were some in True Grit though that were asleep and got woken up. How long do they sleep for?
Rattlesnakes are awesome and amazingly quick strikers. A mongoose might fuck with a cobra, but it will lose a fight with a rattlesnake. They are just too quick. Anyway, they hibernate depending on the weather. Basically when it drops below roughly 60 degrees on a regular basis they will find a place to sleep and will emerge once it gets over 60 once again. Some hibernate alone, sometimes hundreds of them get together in a "ball". True Grit basically showed a small hibernating nest that were slow to awaken.
eyed isn't as dumb as he appears to be cobras are slow as shit in striking. that's why they have the indian guy with the flute being a dick infront of the cobra that is in a basket. snake charmer my ass.
i wanna see him do that with a eastern or western diamond back rattler. those dudes are quick as shit. it's like a bolt of lightning or something. all in a fraction of a second something is bit before it even happened.
please stop talking about snakes so i can leave. this is the worst topic in the world for me when i have other shit to get done. now im agitated and freakin out. im leaving.
eyed isn't as dumb as he appears to be cobras are slow as shit in striking. that's why they have the indian guy with the flute being a dick infront of the cobra that is in a basket. snake charmer my ass.
i wanna see him do that with a eastern or western diamond back rattler. those dudes are quick as shit. it's like a bolt of lightning or something. all in a fraction of a second something is bit before it even happened.
:shock:
I've played with several wild rattlers in my day, much to other people's horror. They freak out and want to kill it, while I pick it up with a stick and check it out. Last time I caught one, I threw it in the river so it would swim downstream and wind up in someone else's camp. :twisted:
They don't worry me much... not like the skunk that attacked Saturday night. Do the aussies have skunks? Now there's an animal not to trifle with.
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please stop talking about snakes so i can leave. this is the worst topic in the world for me when i have other shit to get done. now im agitated and freakin out. im leaving.
I was just minutes off falling asleep and I hear my 7 year old tame Rainbow Lorikeet Murphy banging around in her cage a bit. It sounded like she hit the bottom pretty hard....which isn't that unusual. I don't know why I got up and checked on her....mum's intuition....but luckily I did because there was a fucking SNAKE in her cage. :shock: She always sleeps up the very top of her cage....and when I glanced up to look for her the snake was wrapped around her perch with a feather in its mouth....and she was at the very bottom quite distressed.
We opened the window and it slithered away. Stupid snake.....should have fucking chopped it into pieces. :x
I've been told by a snake catcher who caught a BIG snake (photo below) that was trying to eat my sister's bird to bag any caught snakes and let them go "many" suburbs away because now that the snake knows the bird is there, it will keep coming back. So now I have Murphy in a small cage in my bedroom....and I can't sleep....because I am terrified of snakes.
Poor Murphy....that snake is dead if it comes back! :twisted:
Minutes after "the attack"
All shakey and scared and NOT wanting to go in the little cage -- I wonder why!
Leaving the cage
Trying to escape
We assisted by opening the window -- well my bf did -- I was on a chair by this stage haha
The big bastard at mum and dad's in 2009 that tried to eat my sister's Rainbow Lorikeet
Happier days lol
I fucking HATE snakes! :x
Me too! What a fright!!
Murphy is a beautiful Lorikeet, my goodness her colors are specimen perfect!
Precious, little feet in the second picture there
I got a thing for birds
I'm glad your intuition kicked in and she is safe with a happy ending.
and hopefully that is the end of snakes!
Murphy is asleep next to me....it's now 2.25am....guess it's time for me to go to sleep too. I actually had a dream about a snake two nights ago....let's hope there are no dreams tonight....today....soon.
No skunks here....I've always wondered how much they actually do smell.
Oh man, from a distance, it can smell like real skunky bud, but as you get closer... Some folks here may have had a dog sprayed before. No bath in the world removes that smell, at least not right away. What about porcupines, got those?
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please stop talking about snakes so i can leave. this is the worst topic in the world for me when i have other shit to get done. now im agitated and freakin out. im leaving.
haha Poor chad....still haven't been for a swim?
What is the most venomous snake in the world?
I think it's the Tai Pan
All this talk and pics of snakes is freaking me out.
Murphy is a beautiful Lorikeet, my goodness her colors are specimen perfect!
Precious, little feet in the second picture there
I got a thing for birds
I'm glad your intuition kicked in and she is safe with a happy ending.
and hopefully that is the end of snakes!
Thanks! Nawww I love her little feet too! haha
It was so strange that I got up to check her....even my bf who was had just fallen asleep 15 minutes earlier kept saying when we got her out "Why did you get up....was she squawking?". But no she wasn't. I just heard a bang (which definitely wasn't out of the ordinary) and KNEW I had to get up and check! And I KNEW as I was walking over to her that there was a snake in her cage....before I even saw it. Very very strange.
No skunks here....I've always wondered how much they actually do smell.
Oh man, from a distance, it can smell like real skunky bud, but as you get closer... Some folks here may have had a dog sprayed before. No bath in the world removes that smell, at least not right away. What about porcupines, got those?
How long does it take to get the smell out? Does it make you dry reach?
quote]How long does it take to get the smell out? Does it make you dry reach?
No but we do have echnidas:
I've heard that you have to bathe in tomato sauce to get the smell out of hair. Doesn't make me want to puke or anything, it is just pungent to the max. Then again, I've never been sprayed directly and I hear that is a hell all its own.
Your echnidas are cute. Our pocupines are often times hard to find. They tend to be more nocturnal and they hide in the trees. That's right, porcupines climb trees.
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Yes, they can be very dangerous. The quill, once stuck in flesh will burrow ever deeper which can kill something over time unless properly removed. And those barbed hooks do not remove easily. A lot of people think they shoot their quills, but they don't. You have to basically touch one to get poked.
A hedgehog is a regular swine type creature, but it only lives in manicured hedges, places with fancy landscaping, etc...
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You should check out some info on echnidas....crazy animal! Monotremes -- one of only 2 egg laying mammals in the world -- the other being our platypus. You do know what a platypus is, don't you? That's a weird animal too.
Yes, they can be very dangerous. The quill, once stuck in flesh will burrow ever deeper which can kill something over time unless properly removed. And those barbed hooks do not remove easily. A lot of people think they shoot their quills, but they don't. You have to basically touch one to get poked.
A hedgehog is a regular swine type creature, but it only lives in manicured hedges, places with fancy landscaping, etc...
I wonder how many deaths are caused by porcupines each year? I'd read/heard that they shot their quills. Thanks for clearing that up.
I'm guessing a lot of dogs would get injured/killed by them?
You should check out some info on echnidas....crazy animal! Monotremes -- one of only 2 egg laying mammals in the world -- the other being our platypus. You do know what a platypus is, don't you? That's a weird animal too.
I know all about the platypus and its poisonous spur. They have always been one of my favorite critters.
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I wonder how many deaths are caused by porcupines each year? I'd read/heard that they shot their quills. Thanks for clearing that up.
I'm guessing a lot of dogs would get injured/killed by them?
Dogs and other natural predators. The ones who survive don't make that mistake again. My elk hound once came back to camp when I was boy with about 20 quills in his face. Can't believe he wasn't blinded. We rushed him to the vet and they were able to remove all the quills.
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skunks are one foul smelling animal. we get them in our hood and can sometimes smell them in the summer. disgusting.
one day last fall the stink was in the house in the AM. it was still there when i got home that night. had to open the windows and turn on the attic fan for 30 minutes to get that shit out.
than if you pass a dead one in your car, you have to roll down your windows to get the stink out.
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We killed a snake up at mum and dad's when I lived there....I was about 18 or so. We chopped it's head off....it was really fiesty and kept coming back in the house....something had really pissed this snake off and mum was terrified. Anyway, once it was headless I got the chopping board out and skinned it! I couldn't believe how easily the skin slid off the meat....just put a slice down its belly and pulled the skin off. Nowhere near as much resistance as I was expecting. And you could see what it had been eating inside and I was checking out its backbone etc. Very very interesting. Sometimes I think I should have done something in the medical profession. And as I sat at the kitchen table, mum comes in and all she said was "Ohhh not the good chopping board, Susan!!!"
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Rattlesnakes are awesome and amazingly quick strikers. A mongoose might fuck with a cobra, but it will lose a fight with a rattlesnake. They are just too quick. Anyway, they hibernate depending on the weather. Basically when it drops below roughly 60 degrees on a regular basis they will find a place to sleep and will emerge once it gets over 60 once again. Some hibernate alone, sometimes hundreds of them get together in a "ball". True Grit basically showed a small hibernating nest that were slow to awaken.
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After Robocop? thats awesome, speaking of which- the city of Detroit needs everyones help
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isn't that a scene from an Indiana Jones movie? just because you liked the movie doesn't mean Harrison Ford is your 'friend'......
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I never said Indy was my friend... I mean, "the guy" who fell into the snake nest.
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haha That's cool!
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i wanna see him do that with a eastern or western diamond back rattler. those dudes are quick as shit. it's like a bolt of lightning or something. all in a fraction of a second something is bit before it even happened.
:shock:
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
I've played with several wild rattlers in my day, much to other people's horror. They freak out and want to kill it, while I pick it up with a stick and check it out. Last time I caught one, I threw it in the river so it would swim downstream and wind up in someone else's camp. :twisted:
They don't worry me much... not like the skunk that attacked Saturday night. Do the aussies have skunks? Now there's an animal not to trifle with.
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haha Poor chad....still haven't been for a swim?
What is the most venomous snake in the world?
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Murphy is a beautiful Lorikeet, my goodness her colors are specimen perfect!
Precious, little feet in the second picture there
I got a thing for birds
I'm glad your intuition kicked in and she is safe with a happy ending.
and hopefully that is the end of snakes!
Night! :wave:
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Oh man, from a distance, it can smell like real skunky bud, but as you get closer...
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All this talk and pics of snakes is freaking me out.
The Baby Jeebus doesn't want you hating on snakes. He told me so...
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Thanks!
It was so strange that I got up to check her....even my bf who was had just fallen asleep 15 minutes earlier kept saying when we got her out "Why did you get up....was she squawking?". But no she wasn't. I just heard a bang (which definitely wasn't out of the ordinary) and KNEW I had to get up and check! And I KNEW as I was walking over to her that there was a snake in her cage....before I even saw it. Very very strange.
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How long does it take to get the smell out? Does it make you dry reach?
No but we do have echnidas:
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Eyed, I'm expecting a full report by the time I wake up in a few hours.
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I've heard that you have to bathe in tomato sauce to get the smell out of hair. Doesn't make me want to puke or anything, it is just pungent to the max. Then again, I've never been sprayed directly and I hear that is a hell all its own.
Your echnidas are cute. Our pocupines are often times hard to find. They tend to be more nocturnal and they hide in the trees. That's right, porcupines climb trees.
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Yes, they can be very dangerous. The quill, once stuck in flesh will burrow ever deeper which can kill something over time unless properly removed. And those barbed hooks do not remove easily. A lot of people think they shoot their quills, but they don't. You have to basically touch one to get poked.
A hedgehog is a regular swine type creature, but it only lives in manicured hedges, places with fancy landscaping, etc...
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You should check out some info on echnidas....crazy animal! Monotremes -- one of only 2 egg laying mammals in the world -- the other being our platypus. You do know what a platypus is, don't you? That's a weird animal too.
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I wonder how many deaths are caused by porcupines each year? I'd read/heard that they shot their quills. Thanks for clearing that up.
I'm guessing a lot of dogs would get injured/killed by them?
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I know all about the platypus and its poisonous spur. They have always been one of my favorite critters.
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Dogs and other natural predators. The ones who survive don't make that mistake again. My elk hound once came back to camp when I was boy with about 20 quills in his face. Can't believe he wasn't blinded. We rushed him to the vet and they were able to remove all the quills.
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*gone*
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one day last fall the stink was in the house in the AM. it was still there when i got home that night. had to open the windows and turn on the attic fan for 30 minutes to get that shit out.
than if you pass a dead one in your car, you have to roll down your windows to get the stink out.
foul creatures.