Posted on 01/22/2021 11:44:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
I remember when I was younger and would catch several 6 foot blk snakes every summer on our road. After a summer rain they would lay on the hot pavement. I’d walk up slowly from behind and grab them behind the head; they’d wrap up my arm with that snake smell. I’d tell the wife she had to shift gears for me. She’d be sticking to the passenger window, ha. I’d let them go at the house and the dog would get everyone of them eventually; bite them in half.
“Folks, nature is where everything eats everything else.”
And please remember, in nature YOU are on the menu.
They need a bigger dog.
At hat point the dogs dead.
“ Folks, nature is where everything eats everything else.”
A wise man told me nature is about 2 things and 2 things only.
Food and sex.
That's a novel way of looking at it. They certainly engulf.
But since it is going down the throat, we say swallow, even if it isn't a mammalian peristalsis.
You won that round with a big word!
>> “The dentist related a story about how he was on a hunting trip to Northern Australia when he ‘stepped over a log’”. <<
I’ve heard that it’s not a good idea to step over a log, even when it’s a real one. You’re liable to step onto or next to a venomous snake, lying up against the hidden side. If you step instead on the top of the log (being sure it’s really a log), you can see better where you’re stepping, and step farther away from the log with your next step.
“...she wasn’t able to move for five minutes.”
Me? That would’ve been a dead snake in about 5 seconds flat.
I don not believe a python can quickly release its prey quickly in order to strike.
A snake unlatched its jaw to swallow prey.
To strike it would have to release the prey animal and rematch the jaw.
Also a snakes teeth are hook shaped pointed to the back of the head to make it more difficult for prey to escape and to move the prey toward the throat. This would also make it difficult to release the dog.
Where there’s a will there’s a way.
;)
I would give you that the dog has probably stopped breathing .
But if quick enough it could be revived.
Given that they did not get to the dog until more than 20 minutes or more later I would say that it was a wasted effort to dig the python out of the hole, other than vengeance.
Thanks for the information. I knew about the teeth being slanted backwards but not about its unlatching its jaw.
We live on the edge of a eucalypt forest, I’ve had three guinea fowl disappear in the past few weeks. As they are feral, I can’t confine them (they fly) so the most likely culprit is a carpet snake.
Can’t do much about it...they hunt at night. I never let my cat outside after dusk.
I know I would have run back into the house and grabbed my sharpest knife and something substantial to smash with. No way would I have waited for the “authorities”. By the time they came, dog was dead.
Marlin Perkins would have sent Jim to save the dog.
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