no venom, round head, gonna try to grab it and put it in a bucket and yes play with it for a while then let it go. didn't tell the wife about it or she would flip out. My son and I are so gonna catch a snake.
My dad would always bring snakes home from the ranch and let me feed them. Great way to teach your kid about animals. I was always insanely excited when he brought an animal home. He would make me guess what's in the bucket before he would open it up. Then he would let me go back out with him and choose where we release it.
we use to catch snakes and shit like that all the time, only time i ever got in trouble (ie became scared) was when i caught a baby pygmy rattler that looked just like a small bull snake, got my ass whooped for that one
I just might be your dad... I can't count how many times I have caught a snake, frog, toad etc... put them in a bucket and called my son down to see what I caught. your dad gets an A+
i know this is a snake thread, but your coyote fantasy needs to be addressed: the only coyote that you will ever feed will be so sickly and weak that I would advise against getting close to it's carcass. And keep some flea powder nearby. The snake and the fox will be cool for your kids. We used to have a fox that hung out and kept getting closer and bolder, until the weimaraner spied it a little too far from the woodline and damn near caught the thing. It only comes around at night meow
The fox is getting semi tame now, I feed it cat food and it hangs around our property pretty much all the time. I have not/never seen a coyote, there have been sightings of them though.
What kind of fox is it? They're so cool, unless you're a smaller animal of course, then foxes are vicious killing machines who will dig you up out of the ground to eat you
Feeding wild animals usually isn't a great idea... conditions them to people and may eventually get them killed
Good luck, Texas bros. http://boingboing.net/2015/07/16/poisonous-snake-kills-teenage.html A venomous monocled cobra has escaped near Austin, Texas after biting and killing an 18-year-old pet store employee who was keeping it at his home. Grant Thompson was found unresponsive in a parking lot with puncture wounds on his wrist. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Police found six tarantulas, a foot-long non-venomous Mexican hognose snake, and an African bullfrog in Thompson's car. Austin Animal Services is not going to look for the snake. “It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack,” said Austin Animal Services spokeswoman Patricia Fraga. Monocled cobras are native to South and Southeast Asia. They are highly venomous and very common in Thailand. According to Wikipedia: the "monocled cobra causes the highest fatality due to snake venom poisoning in Thailand." Thailand Snakes has a good info page about monocled cobras, where they are described as "fierce." Here's a video that is likely to make you respectful towards monocled cobras:
I hate snakes. My dog likes to throw his toys in the air and try and catch them. Well yesterday he found a snake and was throwing it in the air like a toy. He also brought me a snake skin a few weeks ago.
Maybe, but we always have garder snakes in our backyard. If he starts going bird training then we will because there are rattlesnakes where he'd go.
Kinds of good coyotes: 1. Dead ones Those things are seriously the worst. They're like very large vermin.
Fun family story: My grandfather was a cattle man in Depression-era north Texas. He "bought" my aunt's high chair at the local general store with 2 coyote pelts. It became the family high chair used for (now) 3 generations.
One of the dogs got bit and later died. There's a video on youtube of the dog dying afterward :( No clue why anyone would record that. (this is just the dogs fighting the snake)
Hopefully those dogs sent that snake back to the depths of hell. Those dogs were probably trying to protect their owner and he's just standing there recording it like a fucking asshole. Should have been trying to procure a fire arm to kill that fucking thing.
Oh... awesome. Hopefully that fucker's dead and gone before I hit Texas on holidays next year. And I hate to be uncaring, but that idiot kinda got what he deserved. Who keeps a fucking cobra at home, pet store employee or not? There's a reason these are not pets - they fucking kill you!! Not so much. But it does make me think the handler was a certified nutbag.
That's not even a big one. The guy in the video said that one was over 4 meters long (presumably between 12-14 feet), they typically grow up to 18 feet.
Cobras can raise their bodies about 1/3 of their total length off the ground when hooded, so a fully grown king cobra can look a 6' tall man in the eyes. Think about that.
If I ever encountered a King Cobra and it raised itself off the ground high enough to look me in the eyes, I'm fairly confident I would shit myself and die from fear before it even bit me.
I live in the extreme south suburbs of Denver and there are a lot of coyotes. Went out front to smoke one night and there was one in the middle of the street just chilling. One coyote isn't a big deal, but when there are numbers that's when it's bad. The absolute worst is when they get a rabbit. Most awful sound ever.
There's a video of a monocled cobra being put back into it's container thing. When the guy is closing the lid the thing springs forward and bites him in the stomach. Pretty sure the venom like burnt through the tissue and made a hole in his belly. There's a video of it somewhere. Edit: found it
I remember that one. It basically swelled up into a giant pimple-esque puss ball. Then he was in the shower days later and it exploded, leaving a huge hole in his abdomen.
We have a neighbor who lost a calf at birth at year- coyotes killed and ate it before it could hit the ground
I have had nightmares before about coyotes attacking me and my dog when we are out running. Usually it ends with us fighting the coyote and killing it.
Cute little guy, right? Spoiler They basically thrash around and stab whatever with its snagglefang. The venom liquefies the skin
My gf's piece of shit dog got a rabbit one night, ate it's ass but left it alive, sounded like a woman screaming outside our window. I had to go out in pitch black and find the poor thing clinging to life, put it out and buried it that night, sucked, bad. I like bunnies...