hippotamus snake

I dreamed that a Hippopotamus Snake slithered toward me. It was about two metres long with a head proportionate to its length, shaped very similarly to a hippopotamus. It was charcoal grey with white stars and red stripes patterning its back. It wound its way behind my seat and changed into a long green snake of a different type. I grabbed the snake at both ends: behind its head and at its tail, careful to avoid the paddle shaped end of its tail where it had raised nodules containing its venom. It tried to bat me with its paddle, but I twisted my wrist in such a way as to avoid being touched. I walked to the window and threw it out, back into the wild garden.