What is this guy doing!!??

I really didn`t like the way this chap handles grass snakes.   He may well be doing some type of send up or micky take, I am not sure.  Whatever he is doing there is no need to handle an animal like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk4WsrxJbMM&feature=relat ed

GemmaJF wrote: Hope nobody from here takes this as a lesson on handling grass snakes, absolutley awful to see him lifting it by the tail tip without supporting the animals body weight, obvioulsy no idea of how delicate the creature he was handling actually is

Exactly!  I have never been bitten by a grass snake.  They tend to wrap around the hand within seconds of capture as you rightly state.  The video is a terrible example to set and leaves anybody who doesn`t know better with the impression that grass snakes are dangerous to handle.  I shuddered when I saw the animal swinging suspended by the tip of it`s tail with no support like that.

maybe he should try it...teach him a lesson! tim

The thought never crossed my mind

Seriously though if anyone is going out without a lot of experience and is wondering how they ought to handle animals just ask. We have plenty of people here with ooodles of experience that can give the correct techniques that will not harm the animals. I'm about to start a thread on handling neo grassies, so I'm not afraid to ask for advice myself despite having caught and handled several thousand animals.

What a complete idiot.

Something tells me that he may have watched a Steve Irwin programme or two.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDk6YwHv5D0&feature=relat ed

CRIKEY MATE WHAT A WHOPPER!   WOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!