Posted on 03/14/2021 3:17:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A teenage girl was horrified to discover a venomous snake hiding inside her asthma inhaler.
The teen was bringing in her washing yesterday at her home in Bli Bli, Queensland, Australia, when she spotted the red-bellied black snake slither out of the clothes she had just brought inside.
She wasn’t sure exactly where it had ended up, until she noticed it curled up inside the open top of her blue inhaler. Fortunately the girl called a team of snake catchers, who managed to safely capture the reptile and rehome it. Red-bellied black snakes are frequently found on Australia’s east coast and are responsible for a number of bites every year. No human deaths have been recorded, but their venom can cause serious symptoms including bleeding, vomiting, abdominal pain, headaches, diarrhoea and muscle weakness or pain.
After the discovery yesterday Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers wrote on Facebook: ‘You would not believe this.
This is crazy and we’re super lucky we were able to find the snake.’
Team member Stuart McKenzie told 9News: ’It’s one of the most incredible places we have ever found a snake before. I couldn’t imagine what it would be like picking it up and discovering it in there.’ While the snake was only a juvenile, Mr McKenzie said it could still give a nasty bite if scared or provoked. He added: ‘They are just exploring, seeking food this time of year before it gets cold again.
‘We’ve found them in all sorts of places. Just recently we had a snake become stuck inside the tubing of a screen door.’ Red-bellied snakes are native to eastern Australia and are commonly found in forests, swamps and some urban areas. They usually grow up to two metres long and eat mainly frogs, other reptiles, small mammals and fish.
It took a whole TEAM of snake catchers to apprehend that little serpent? I wonder how many people are on the team?
But do they have BLM or antifa?
Get yourself a couple of Mongoose pets. The snakes will disappear fast.
we find them in America’s east coast in an area called The Swamp...
I’ve got so many poisonous snakes on my property that they’ve interbred with one another. I got a really big hybrid rattle headed copper moccasin that just looks nasty.
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I messed around with all kinds of snakes as a youngster including Moccasins, Copperheads, and Eastern Diamondback Rattlers. Also had a collection of books about snakes and other reptiles. But I never before heard of snakes interbreeding, and I don’t think they do. It would be the same as a Robin interbreeding with a Bluejay, or a Hawk interbreeding with a Crow! Doesn’t happen.
Dead ones...
Ones I have seen yet...
Ones that got away.
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I don’t understand your thinking. What have those cute critters done to you that makes you so hostile toward them?
THAT’S A TINY SNAKE
DC is filled with yellow-bellied blue snakes .
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Now those are the breed that deserve the shotgun or the machete!
I’m so far back in the woods, the hoot owl mates with the buzzards.
I’m so far back in the woods, the hoot owl mates with the buzzards.
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I’m way up in the holler myself, and hear there’s some mighty strange mating practices going on around here, but it’s the two-footed animals that’s doing it! When they made that movie Deliverance I think it was based on some of my neighbors! No kinfolk though, far as I know!
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