Reply With QuoteCould it be slowworm? Is it alive? Moving sluggish?
My cat derek has just brought this home, anyone know what snake it is? At first I thought it was a massive worm from a distance.
Last edited by alexaff; 25th May 2017 at 17:58.
Could it be slowworm? Is it alive? Moving sluggish?
Originally Posted by Possu
I've never seen or heard of a slow worm. It moves slowly but has a snakes head😂😂
not a snake, a legless lizard, Anguis fragilis.
Last edited by Huertecilla; 25th May 2017 at 18:09.
Pretty sure thats a slow worm.
Slow worm I think, so actually a legless lizard. They can be a kind of bronze colour as well, which threw me for a minute, but its head shape and scales look very much like a slow worm.
I saw one the other weekend:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/138002603@N05/8eou55
I'd say definitely a slow worm. Quite beautiful creatures. And protected.
I would agree that its a Slow Worm. Ive seen quite a few near where one of my daughter lives in Cookham.
Lovely things and I really like to see them.
(I like the fact that your cat is called Derek too)
Thanks everyone. Having googled slow worm I agree with you all. I've put it in the garden and it's scurried away very slowly.
Learn something every day :)
Yep Slow Worm- I can find several in our grass cutting heap.
Slow worm Mate
Mozza
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Definitely a Slow Worm, I've got them in my garden. The easiest way to check is to see if it blinks. (Snakes don't).
Another vote for the cat's name here! Derek is an awesome choice.
I think it might be a slow worm.
If you hadn't already decided from the wealth of answers its a slow worm, a legless lizard. And its still got its tail. They give these up in a fight to get away.
This is just a guess but I think it might be a.....
Slow worm.
When we were kids we called them grass snakes. Many years ago mind
It's a slow worm
One of the best critters you could have in your garden and totally harmless
Unless you're a slug
Don't be a slug around this
And anotherfor Derek. You will have to put him on the naughty step.
Grass snakes are a different creature, and actual snakes, unlike the slow worm which is a lizard.
In the UK the only snakes we have are grass snakes and adders. We have a few lizards including the slow worm.
All marvellous animals.
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There's also the Smooth Snake but they're very rare
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And Aesculapian snakes in Regents Park. :-)
It's a slow worm and I love the name Derek for a cat!
Hiya Al!
Another vote for Derek, impressed he delivered snake/worm type thing in one piece!
Last edited by KavKav; 25th May 2017 at 20:37.
Glass snake would be very apt btw.
The latin name translates into ´fragile snake´ because it very easily ´breaks´.
When handling one, only the front half should be handled as the rear part is the tail which it can ´shed´.
I received a PM as there were so many conflicting opinions you were a bit lost. So don't listen to them: what you have is a slow worm.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
I guess it doesn't have to be particularly fast if it feeds on slugs!
Slow worm.
We found one in our garden growing up and named him Willy the Worm.
If you are intended on keeping him in your garden you need to think very hard and carefully ...........
What name goes well with Derek the cat? Colin the slow 🐛? Rodney?
Had to interwebs that one.
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Slow worm, found our dog, Cooper playing with one on our patio tonight. Initial thoughts were snake but googled it and it was defo a slow worm. Our one looked like it had been in the wars, no tail and looking a bit sorry for itself...
First one I'd ever seen in the wild though.
Was I the only one opening this thread half expecting to see a photo of Alexaff's gentleman's sausage?
So clever my foot fell off.
It sounds an unlikely name and an unlikely location, doesn't it. ;-)
I was working in London Zoo and one of those was coiled up on the path next to me, I panicked for a minute thinking it was an escaped Taipan or something deadly. I saw quite a few while I was down there, mostly along the banks of the canal, beautiful (and large) snakes.
When I was growing up in Cornwall, the field attached to our hovel was riddled with slow worms. And the grass grew long and hard.
My father invested in a petrol horizontal-rotary mower.
I think he may have invented salami.
Wishful thinking that Alex!
Yep slow worm.
Had them in one of my developments 10 years ago and worked out £139 each to shift 93.
Lov 'em
Pitch
Are you sure?
I was hesitant to open this thread Alex, but then I thought you'd know better
Anyway, do we know what sort of snake it is? Is it poisonous?
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Slow worm for sure...
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It's a shame no one seems to know what it is yet.
Cheers..
Jase
I'm not sure we'll ever really know for sure.
Looks more like a leaf to me?
.... next to a slow worm.
It looks rather sleek, could be slow to moderate worm?
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Its a Queen wasp, I should know my Dad kills them for a living.
I'm having some trouble discerning scale in those photos.
If that leaf is two feet across, and you have it trapped in an empty grain silo, I think it could be a giant anaconda.
Try putting a live sheep in there and see if it eats it would be my suggestion.
I don't think sheep eat queen wasps.
Alex, if it comes back, please see if it responds to name Carl. The there is one of these Missing posters up in the park close to us for Carl.
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Interesting, thanks for that. I was wondering how easy they are to see.
Many, many years ago my prep school used to do sports on the playing field between the canal and Outer Circle (we walked there and back from Swiss Cottage over Primrose Hill). If I was doing that nowadays I'd take the opportunity to have a look around in the undergrowth and trees!
Edible?
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