CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — In Refugio County, Animal Control Officers have been coming throughout extra snakes. Now that it’s getting cooler, these cold-blooded reptiles are slithering nearer to neighborhoods.
“(In) September, we had 9 requires snakes inside folks’s homes and usually we get one or two calls a month,” animal management officer, Andrew Snyder mentioned.
Snyder has caught a whole lot of snakes over the past six months. He believes the drought and not too long ago chilly climate is what’s drawing them out.
“Snakes are chilly blooded which suggests they’ll’t regulate their physique temperature. When it is hotter out that is whenever you’ll see them shifting,” Snyder mentioned.
In truth, Animal Control not too long ago discovered a water moccasin snake exterior the county courthouse only a few weeks in the past.
A water moccasin is 1 of 4 venomous snakes discovered within the space however one of the vital frequent snakes that Snyder catches is the Texas rat snake.
Venomous or not, Animal Control does their half to catch them after all, so nobody will get harm.
“I’ve to seek out the snake, then I’ve a set of thongs that I exploit to select up the snake and place it inside a bucket with a locking lid and I can transport it out of the realm,” Snyder mentioned.
If you’ve got a snake in your home, Refugio Animal Control Officers mentioned to name county dispatch at (361)526-1696 and allow them to know precisely the place it’s to allow them to catch it and launch it within the county away out of your neighborhood.
