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Aussie Pinball Forums => General Chat - Non Pinball/coin-opp Discussion => Topic started by: Pintoxicated on January 23, 2014, 10:58:36 PM
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Just lost one of our Alpacas to what looks to have been a snake bite ^.^ Just in time for us to go away this weekend....now to figure out how to bury him in rock hard ground when the neighbour is away and I can't use his tractor. !@#
Man I hate those evil looking pri..ks of things.
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I drove through there last week on the way to Canberra. Just outside Albury on the hume hwy it looks very dry. You'll be lucky to pierce that ground with a jack hammer.
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I like snakes, along with sharks and crocs. They rightly deserve the place that they have in the eco-system.
I am sorry to hear about your alpaca though.
Check this out...snake vs snake.
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Just lost one of our Alpacas to what looks to have been a snake bite ^.^ Just in time for us to go away this weekend....now to figure out how to bury him in rock hard ground when the neighbour is away and I can't use his tractor. !@#
Man I hate those evil looking pri..ks of things.
No good mate. There's certainly a lot of them around at the moment too. I drove to Griffith and back today and saw a couple on the road as well as a few very large goannas. There all on the move looking for water I guess. I don't mind the lizards but I'm with you on the snakes.
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Sorry about your loss. I bumped into a couple down at Bodala who also lost an alpaca a couple of months ago to a snake bite.
I mainly have red bellies here at The Oaks. They are generally placid and don't strike unless you accidentally step on one. The real buggers are the Eastern Brown, real mean and aggresive. Definitely not one to meet in the paddock.
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Sorry about your loss. I bumped into a couple down at Bodala who also lost an alpaca a couple of months ago to a snake bite.
I mainly have red bellies here at The Oaks. They are generally placid and don't strike unless you accidentally step on one. The real buggers are the Eastern Brown, real mean and aggresive. Definitely not one to meet in the paddock.
Good thing about the Red belly black is it eats the eastern brown snake.
^^^
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Sorry to hear about your alpacca.
I hate Brown Snakes. I see 2 or 3 every year around our place. This is a pic of one a mowed over last year. I did not see it . It was in some long grass. (http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/01/24/buju7ete.jpg)
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Thanks guys. Just a waste of a good animal, he died for nothing.
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Dissapointing to hear. We see one or two a year on our property, two weeks ago I was moving some sleepers I had stacked for making some garden beds and one was lying underneath, scared the shit out of me even though I considered there could be one there. I do love looking at them, just worried the kids may startle one and get bitten
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Sorry to hear about your alpacca.
I hate Brown Snakes. I see 2 or 3 every year around our place. This is a pic of one a mowed over last year. I did not see it . It was in some long grass. (http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/01/24/buju7ete.jpg)
I love snakes like that one. It's the ones that move I hate.
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Just sold my 2 snakes to a collector. He liked the 14 foot big fella, and the 7 foot brother. Nasty bastards they were. Built into their genes ofcourse.
Big $$$ in buying n selling snakes. The snake collecting/industry in Australia is just like the pinball industry, snake forums etc etc.
But the buzz for collectors in Australia is to collect illegal highly venomous snakes that are illegal to keep.
Every now n again, a forum member on the snake forum just disappears out of sight for 3 or 6 months.
Finally it gets reported back to the forum that the person died playing with one of their highly prized XYZ illegal highly deadly snake.
But people are buying, selling n trading snakes on the snake forums for BNIB pinball prices.
I caught a special green tree snake once, sold it to a fellow who had a special licence for 4 grand.
The trick was not getting bitten to collect on the catch. First n last, cause it almost bit me before I bagged it.
Snakes in the wild are pretty farking scary. Human instinct to shit yaself in two seconds because if anything in the wild can scare you instantly, its an Australian venomous snake.
(Can u burn the dead animal in a bonfire - get a permit - if u cant dig a hole ??).
Sorry for ya loss.