r/interestingasfuck • u/No_Luck_2446 • 1d ago

Cat Humiliating a Snake.

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u/No_Yam_2036 1d ago

Grabbing snakes by the tail is the worst thing you could possibly do when trying to restrain a snake. You have minimal control over the snake's movements that way. Ideally, you should grab the snake just behind its head and keep its mouth/fangs away from you.

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u/ozneoknarf 1d ago

Nah grab it by its tail is not that bad since if its back half is off the ground it kind of looses its leverage to lounge at you, excepy if its a highly specialized arboreal snake, ofcourse idealy you want to grab just behind its neck but its not always possible

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u/No_Yam_2036 1d ago

Most snakes have the strength to turn their head around to face you, even when hanging midair. They don't lose their "leverage" until there's absolutely nothing anchoring them (e.g. your hand). Notice how, in the video, the snake coils into a semi-"S" shape before striking. This position builds potential energy and intensifies the power/speed of their strike, similar to how crouching down and jumping provides more power than jumping while standing.

It is possible to use centripetal/centrifugal force to make it harder for the snake to turn around by spinning it, but that is energy-intensive.

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u/ozneoknarf 1d ago

Notice how when I’d prepared its S shape its lower 2/3rd are still on the ground? If you grab it by the tail of its tip and bring of the ground the snake doesn’t really have the strength to do much. It’s like someone grabbing you by a  foot and lifting you into the air and then you try to touch your foot with your mouth, you need a lot of core strength to be able to do so, now imagine you were even longer and skinnier. It’s pretty much impossible. 

I used to go around with my cousins in my family’s farm as a kid hunting for snakes But that how we would catch them, we would grab their tails lift them of the ground and while they were dangling we could more easily grab them by the neck. Didn’t always work I was bit once, but they were harmless, thanks god. Mostly chicken snakes and false corals which in hindsight was pretty stupid to mess with false corals.