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Man! You got guts holding that snake like that

The problem is the risk is just to big. 1 nip and you can go sit under a tree and phone the family saying cheers.A python bit me once was freak-en sore.Blood everything but the part of my hand that I smacked on the cage was worse than the bite itself.

We are in agreement, we will be leaving the snake hunting to the guys of NatGeo, unless they try and make their way into our home..... that's a different story....

And ... get a longer braai tong!

Friendly snake or bad snake, you would have to bring a shovel to use and get me out of my own sh!t

I will need new brown pants, vewy dangerous

TheunsH

I'd rather be a sissy than a man, when it comes to BM. Phew, cannot believe you handled the snake with braai tongs Liewelulu. Cannot accuse you of reading the snake thread, where someone there also handled a snake with braai tongs. As was mentioned, they are venomous from birth, so a bite would have been fatal.

But great that you released it back into the wild . Better check out the rest of the neighberhood-there may be more-how that for encourgement especially if it was young. I'm thinking snake nest, mommy, daddy, siblings

Cheerio
Noel

Tame? Yes Theuns, you can. I had a friend who's tame buffalo "probably just wanted to play" one day. Koos is buried beneath a tree on his farm where the wife and kids now have to fend.

(I'll not speak of all the snakes we caught...)

Pheeuw, I was making a joke about draping the BM around my neck!

Hi Everyone

So, is the Sweni Bird Hide Gate open or locked? Anyone been there recently?

We were there just over a month ago and spent many hours there, and the gate was open (obviously ) and no mamba around, just many other wonderful animals at the waterhole.

Here is a pic I took at the hide:

Thanks DinkyBird. Great photo

Holy moly, such was the shock when I opened this thread, my laptop nearly became a floortop.

black mamba definitly