Walking with a Cocker Spaniel is always a stop-start affair, they always find something to sniff out. So, you can sort of excuse my indifference with every stop, he's usually just sniffing who was there last. We pretty much always walk close to waterways or bushland, so I'm always trying to at least keep him out of the taller grass, usually while saying "no buddy, there might be a snake in there".....................
So we stop for the 300th time, I say the line, but this time it was different. Something clearly had his attention, I took a closer look where suddenly it clicked and I yanked him away as fast as I could......................from a red belly black snake, cue the FECKING F.CK!
The snake was facing away from us and wasn't moving, so I thought it may have been dead, but then it started to move slowly away. So, I'd say it was slow and sleepy as its now getting quite cold, had it been mid-summer we may not have been so lucky.
We normally don't see snakes this late in the season, its always in spring and early summer. That makes it four I've come across while walking this past warm season, three with Faych and one with Olly.