Don't you touch me

Common Cat Snake (Boiga trigonata trigonata) - A friend of mine spotted this juvenile snake (about 1 ft in length) crawling in to the grass next to a road, under the light of my bike's headlights, on the way to "Siddarabetta"; a hill in Tumkur. His snake handling skills yielded us a few pictures of the snake before we released it back in to the wild.

This species is not to be confused with the sub-species "Boiga trigonata melanocephala", which is found in Pakistan. Their venom toxicity varies from species to species, and the venom from this snake is not usually harmful to humans.