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Reader question: Which animals in and around the house in Thailand can be dangerous?
Dear readers,
In response to your article about catching a tokeh, I wonder which animals you can encounter in the Thai domestic environment and which may be dangerous?
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As far as I'm concerned, dogs and cockroaches are the most dangerous.
Dogs, because they sometimes bite and cockroaches, because they affect my peace of mind when I encounter them in the house.
With those cockroaches I also grab the poison syringe and that can never be healthy.
We are in Khonkaen province and Kranuan district.
In the countryside we regularly see various snakes, scorpions and centipedes that can be dangerous. I don't really know about spiders, but we see them regularly here. The villagers don't really respond to it, sometimes you hear a scream NGUU...
Yes green snake cobra are here and we see them occasionally. Just be careful when you pick something up from the ground and make sure your garden is clean, not too high grass and not too many leaves on the ground. Never put your hand under anything. I think it is also recognizable elsewhere in Thailand.
g Dick
The most dangerous animal there is in Thailand has 2 legs and rides on 2 or 4 wheels also known as human
The most dangerous animal is of course man. Yet there are animals that can also be dangerous.
Here you will find an overview http://www.siam-info.com/english/venomous_animals.html
The chance that you encounter them is not great and with a little common sense nothing will happen.
If by "dangerous" you mean "deadly" then it may be reassuring that you mainly only have to watch out for snakes. You will not easily encounter elephants and tigers in your backyard. In Thailand you have about 80 species of snakes, the vast majority of which are harmless. So don't panic immediately if you see a snake, but caution is advised. The venomous snakes in Thailand are of the Krait, Viper and Cobra species. A bite from one of these snakes is life-threatening and can be fatal without prompt treatment. A number of these snakes (subspecies) are fairly common throughout Thailand and can therefore appear in your backyard, especially if you live outside the big city. If you have open deers, you could also find them in the house. I think there is a “monkey sandwich” story in the toilet bowl, because then you should have an open sewer. Cobras are best known and can also be found in and around human settlements. An adult King Cobra is easy to recognize, because these are huge snakes, up to 6 meters long. A common Cobra species is the Spitting Cobra. These are about 1,5 meters long when mature. As the name suggests, this snake not only bites, but also spits venom over distances of up to 3 meters and are also very effective! The poison is always spit towards the eyes and can cause blindness if not treated properly. In such cases, rinse the eyes with plenty of water and go to a hospital as soon as possible!
General advice with snakes for laymen: stay away and don't try to kill them either! Snakes can be very fast and can sometimes strike in a tenth of a second over the distance of their body length! So stay away! Provided your garden is not a rubbish dump, these snakes usually disappear quickly from your garden because there is little to collect.
Annoying, but not life-threatening, animals around your house can be: millipedes (centipede), scorpions and spiders. These animals can bite or sting, but they are not fatal unless you are allergic to the venom. A sting or bite can (note: CAN) be very painful and cause swelling.
In these kinds of stories, the annoying nocturnal visitor, namely the mosquitoes, is always underexposed. These carriers of germs cause more deaths worldwide than all the snakes in the world combined!
The latter is a truth as a cow. I've never been bitten by a snake. I did chase one in my (then open) garden with a water pipe of 4 meters in length and took pictures of a snake that just had a frog in its mouth.
I sometimes see a dead snake lying on the road and my neighbor had a large snake in the garden. An acquaintance of mine, who lives in a resort where many houses are empty for a long time, has a lot of snakes. Encountered six snakes on her porch or in front of her door in a year. Around Christmas there was a snake in her bedroom. He was killed by one of the staff.
But it was also her own fault. She left doors open during the day and her screens were damaged. In the bedroom you could go through it with a fist on the side.
But the daily fight against mosquitoes is an endless war. And I get stung almost every day. Whenever I visit acquaintances in Hua Hin, I always bring mosquito repellent. There is almost no wind in the gardens and you are much more bothered by mosquitoes than with us. And I think it's more than enough with us!
We have almost no mosquitoes in the house itself because we have screens for doors and windows. Fortunately, you can do something about it: spraying, electric tennis racket, mosquito lamps. That really helps. In our outdoor kitchen, I don't go without that racket. Just shake everything where those animals are and electrocute…then there is peace again and I don't have to be stung when making breakfast.
I have also encountered large poisonous spiders and one scorpion managed to sting me three times (a few hours before, my girlfriend in the middle of the night). A very painful experience.
What also helps in the garden (especially at night) is making noise. Or better: just stomp your feet on the ground if you think you have seen a snake…
You also sometimes have rats and mice. I caught two rats (ratlets) with a steel cage and found a whole nest of young rats in my lawnmower. And when we still had cats, they regularly came home with mice.
When we first moved there, we had everything in plastic containers in our kitchen, but they ate through it. Now we have cabinets with glass and metal mesh and doors that close properly. These critters don't come in there anymore.
You also sometimes come across caterpillars. Had an invasion of large grass green caterpillars a few weeks ago, eating away the young leaves of a bush in dozens. I collected them all in a jar and threw them at the end of the street. Luckily they didn't come back.
My foot was bitten 2 to 3 years ago by swarms of small black rotten flies that crawled into a wound. In my foot. Ointments did nothing. A week later my foot was 2 times thicker. So off to the hospital. you hardly see flies. but you can if there are 20 a50 that crawl into your wound. be alert for those flies.
Open wounds should also be covered, even though the Thai think otherwise.
Just so that the wound can breathe.
So don't pack too tight.