Snake in the pool

[quackers]

Got a black one happıly lıvıng ın our garden wall and I have seen ıt headıng for the pool for a swım.

[Jacqui Harvey]

I think we would have fished it out with the net and let it go in the fields.  I believe that snakes were there a long time before we built our Villas, so why kill them?
I remember the first time we saw a crab walking along the bottom of our pool.  The Gardener said it was a fresh water crab from the ditches at the back of the houses.   We have seen a few since and always fish them out and put them back. 

[Scott and Lisa]

Do you mean the human kind Scunner?

[Scunner]

No I meant the carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes kind, but now you mention it...

[Sunny Boy]

Got a black one happıly lıvıng ın our garden wall and I have seen ıt headıng for the pool for a swım.

Chances are this is a grass snake they do grow quite large to about 4 - 5 foot in length and are harmless.

[KKOB]

Got a black one happıly lıvıng ın our garden wall and I have seen ıt headıng for the pool for a swım.

Chances are this is a grass snake they do grow quite large to about 4 - 5 foot in length and are harmless.

Or it could be a Western Whip Snake. There's a black variety of it that's common in Turkey. They'll hiss and become aggressive and will bite if cornered or grabbed but they're not venomous

[Ray1951]

Forget the snake in the pool and watch out for the snakes out and about who will scam you, rip you off and try to swindle you.  There are a lot of them out there, trying to scam you for exchange etc.  Keep your wits about you.

[Scunner]

I had a fairly frantic phonecall from Mrs Scunner one afternoon after an incident with a black snake in our garden. The school bus had just dropped the kids off and as they walked in through the gate the driver (who had never once spoken a word of English in 2 years) started shouting, "Black snake!! 2 Metres!! Get in House!!" - well the dog went for the snake, the snake went for the dog, and the dog ran inside.

I went round with a Turkish friend who is absolutely petrified of snakes and we nervously checked the garden, under this and that. Then a carrier bag, it seemed to have something coiled up inside. I got a stick (no way I was opening the bag by hand) and as my friend stood behind me and some distance back, I managed to get the bag on the stick and turn it upside down. We all looked nervously as out slid...no word of a lie...

A bicycle tyre inner tube!!!

Boy did we run backwards at some rate

Never ever saw the snake though   

[Menthol]

My other half arrived here yesterday. He goes out for a smoke on the terrace and is confronted for the first time by our scorpion. We've called him Scunner. For the alliteration of course.

[Lotty]

Heh- heh! How long are you out there Menthol?