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well its taken nearly three weeks for me to get over a rather unfortunate encounter with an adder, whome i have now named even though i never realy got to him or her as hissing sid was taking the dog for a walk on the nature reserve over at kenfig very painfull
 
Sorry to hear that....can you explain what happened?
Might be worth bearing in mind.


barry
 
... and I'll bet they are on the increase! Just in the last few years we have seen quite a few grass snakes around where we live where as we used to see none at all. Glad your okay.
 
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usually a adder bite is no worse than a bad bee sting unless you are alergic and this same as a bee or wasp can cause anaphalactic shock .
consider yourself fortunate if you see one of these creatures as they are very hard to see , just enjoy them from a distance
 
And to think that we used to sleep out with just a bivibag on Kenfig. :banana:
 
theres loads in our wood and grass snakes but its not public access so both the snakes and the public should be safe:scared:

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beachcaster said:
Sorry to hear that....can you explain what happened?
Might be worth bearing in mind.


barry
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nothing to tell realy ,just out walking the dog and felt a pain in my right leg .as luck had it only 10 mins from home so no great panic
 
seahorse19 said:
usually a adder bite is no worse than a bad bee sting unless you are alergic and this same as a bee or wasp can cause anaphalactic shock .
consider yourself fortunate if you see one of these creatures as they are very hard to see , just enjoy them from a distance
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no, no real problem just a painfull and badly brused leg made me feel realy ill for a while . but two nice fang marks left .
 
Hi Mandrake, glad your feeling better. A few years ago whilst working on the computer in the house, I looked down sensing something moveing. It was a four foot female Adder, or so I'm told. Apart from the hissing, the smell was quite pungent. This is what you get on a hot summers day with the doors open. So I done the only thing I could think of. Caught it in a large bag, and threw it over the neibours. (Never did like them after they threw a brick at me dog.) rgd's Graham.
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tiderus said:
Hi Mandrake, glad your feeling better. A few years ago whilst working on the computer in the house, I looked down sensing something moveing. It was a four foot female Adder, or so I'm told. Apart from the hissing, the smell was quite pungent. This is what you get on a hot summers day with the doors open. So I done the only thing I could think of. Caught it in a large bag, and threw it over the neibours. (Never did like them after they threw a brick at me dog.) rgd's Graham.
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That really is a cracking photo,it shows the features very clearly and i can only conclude that really is a bloody dreadful carpet.
 
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Tiderus, the Adder? in the photo looks an awful lot like a Grass Snake, Adders are not as long as 3' and are darker with a V pattern on the back.
The Grass snake also uses playing dead and issuing a stink from its anal glands as a defence.
 
yep thats a grass snake ,and the smell is SOMETHING ELSE adders are smaller
 
Thanks to you both for your reply. Not knowing much about snakes, friends said it was an adder. ( Maybe it was because it was singing one and one are two, two and two are four.) Sorry I couldn't resist that one). I am supprised that its a grass snake, because of its size. Some thirty years ago I had a similar snake dissapear into a hole in our surrounding old stone wall, kept well away from it since. Anyone got a picture of an Adder, so I can keep further away in future? Rgds' Graham.
 
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tiderus said:
Thanks to you both for your reply. Not knowing much about snakes, friends said it was an adder. ( Maybe it was because it was singing one and one are two, two and two are four.) Sorry I couldn't resist that one). I am supprised that its a grass snake, because of its size. Some thirty years ago I had a similar snake dissapear into a hole in our surrounding old stone wall, kept well away from it since. Anyone got a picture of an Adder, so I can keep further away in future? Rgds' Graham.
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Graham,That Snake slithering into a dark hole was probably the local politician, were you measuring Marigolds as well, or wearing them cos it was stinking
 
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