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Title: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: Kate on 05 April 2015, 18:54:26
This is the second one that I've found.


(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7590/17042724682_b8437978ae_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rY1qhJ)Snake (https://flic.kr/p/rY1qhJ) by katemarlow120 (https://www.flickr.com/people/130630435@N05/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: Andy B on 05 April 2015, 20:13:20
the 2nd?  :o

What kind is it? Any idea?  :-\
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: Andy H on 05 April 2015, 20:17:49
How many kinds of slow-worm are there?
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 05 April 2015, 20:33:53
And do you just find them when there slivering up your arm  :-\ I assume that is your arm  :-\ ;D

Off with its head and into the pot.....probably make a lovely snake curry  :y
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: Andy B on 05 April 2015, 20:59:55
How many kinds of slow-worm are there?

looks like you could be right  :y ...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguis_fragilis
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: Andy H on 05 April 2015, 21:56:58
And do you just find them when there slivering up your arm  :-\ I assume that is your arm  :-\ ;D

Off with its head and into the pot.....probably make a lovely snake curry  :y
Not so fast cowboy

Quote from: Wickipedia
The slow worm has been decreasing in numbers, and under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, it is illegal to intentionally kill, injure, sell or advertise to sell them
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: the alarming man on 05 April 2015, 22:10:05
And do you just find them when there slivering up your arm  :-\ I assume that is your arm  :-\ ;D

Off with its head and into the pot.....probably make a lovely snake curry  :y




that snake is a lizard....and a protected one at that ::)
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: Kate on 05 April 2015, 22:36:00
Yes it's a slow worm. :y

Sub-species: Optius Docaturrus I believe. ;D
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: 05omegav6 on 06 April 2015, 00:04:16
Silly me... ::)

There was I expecting a picture of a dishwasher...
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: chrisgixer on 06 April 2015, 00:10:11
Thought it was a grass snake at first glance.
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: swordfish on 06 April 2015, 05:09:28
were in the kitchen did you see it
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 06 April 2015, 08:44:31
Handsome bugger!
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 06 April 2015, 11:00:38
Have you got a damp problem in your kitchen?  :-\
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 06 April 2015, 11:26:05
Looks like something from the film......'The land that time forgot'. :y :-* :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: EMD on 06 April 2015, 15:02:05
You need "Bear" Grylls in , he's quite an appetite for them  ;D
Title: Re: Just found this in my kitchen
Post by: Kate on 06 April 2015, 16:28:34
It was in the middle of the kitchen floor. I think one of my cats brought it in.