Living in Ubud, Bali means that you are aware enough that you will live together with any animals that can shows up at your front door at any time they want.
What kind of animal are they? Insects and frogs are common to see. But snakes? It is also a common animal that will show up at your house!
Yes! Live in Ubud, specially if you stay in a villa that surrounding with trees or shrubs, you may experience to find snake at your house. Like what I just had.
Me, my roommate and my cat are living a small house that built at the bank of cliff covered with trees and has river and waterfall below. It has a nice view but it comes with a price: unexpected guests!
Just one hour ago, it's happening to me at the terrace. My cat was staring to something under a table beside a refrig. I knew there's an animal in there and there it was: a little brown snake!
It's freezed because my cat was watching it and the cat is like ready to jump on the snake. I grabbed a trekking pole and poke the snake a little and it moved! My cat were freaking out and ran out into my room. LOL.
The snake that I found is a Lycodon capucinus or Oriental Wolf Snake. In Indonesia, it has several names like Ular Cicak or Ular Genteng. They feed themselves with lizard, frog or mouse. Fortunately, this snake is a non-venomous.
When I was trying to cast it out from under the table and refrig, I found a tree frog. It jumped out and peeing on me! Later that I know that tree frog's pee can cause blindness if it peeing into your eyes.
After several attempts to make it move out from my terrace, it went away back into the shrubs. At that moment, I was thinking that I was lucky it's not a cobra.
I remember one of my friend told me that she also found snakes in their house many times. Some other houses might find python sneaked in to their house.
That was not the first time for us. A few months ago, my roommate found a snake under a table inside our living room. He's freaked out! How did he knows that there's a snake under the table? My cat showed it to him. The day after that, he met a snake curled up the gate.