Okay this season has truly been popular with snakes. The most we have seen since moving into Pine Haven. Wednesday evening while we were sitting down to eat dinner, Spot started barking hysterically. I have gotten to know that pitch and that pitch means – snake. As it was dark already I switched on the spot lights and I expected another one of the tree snakes we have seen earlier on this month but instead Spot had found a different one this time. I was almost positive it’s was a brown but I turned out to be wrong. It has a white belly and was real brown. It looks nothing like the other one. It was slow and it looked quite an old snake. According to the snake catcher it was either a keel snake (fresh water snake – harmless, or a rough scaled snake – very venomous but shy. Both been seen in Queensland. I’m leaning on the first option after I looked up both on the net for pictures. The keel back does a lot of good in fact. They seem to eat the pesky toads and seem to survive. They like moist areas and feed on rat, mice, frogs etc. With all the wet weather we have been having latterly it makes sense he would be around. When all was settled and the snake was long gone, I patted my dog and gave him the reward he so duly deserved. He was our protector more than we knew. I went to bed that night knowing we were safe from any potential harm caused by snakes as long as Spotty was around. He would alert us time and time again. I even think he would take a bite for us too. I really hope that doesn’t ever happen but it makes me feel better knowing someone is watching out for snakes for us. I’m going to have my annual pest spray next Thursday; I’m very overdue and am hoping the smell will keep the rest of the snakes at bay not to mention the toads, spiders and rest of the creepy crawlies. This summer season has been full of snake sighting.
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