Your little story makes me want to fall on my knees in thankfulness that I don’t live where there are king brown snakes.
Why on EARTH did the man not kill the viper?????
Are they scarce in AU??? Would the world be harmed if there was one less viciously poison serpent in the world?
ACK!!!
To put it’s lights out was my first reaction, but it’s a small room, and it was hiding in the interior of a recliner chair. If you make king brown snakes angry, they can be very nasty - and quick - so it was better to call a bleeding-heart snake loving wildlife carer and let him take the risk. Worth every cent of the $50 donation to the volunteer.Last I saw of them both they were heading off into the sunset; please don’t release the snake anywhere near enough so that it comes back, I told him.
There’s really no accounting for why anyone would want a dangerously venomous snake to live...but then...I feel the same way about the (dare I say it?) R.O.P.