Crush your cans this summer season. That’s the message from a Tasmanian snake catcher who responds to calls about snakes getting caught inside them yearly.
Olivia Dykstra, a snake catcher in Whitemore, is urging individuals to ‘squash all cans’ earlier than throwing them out as a easy and straightforward solution to forestall snakes from changing into trapped.
The warning, shared on-line, was accompanied by pictures of a snake’s head wedged in a Rockstar drink can, which needed to be rigorously lower open so the snake might be freed.
Dykstra stated the snake, which can have been blind in a single eye, was unhurt and was launched again the place it was discovered.
“Copperheads have tiny heads and their scales only go one way so they can’t back out! Poor buggers,” she wrote on-line.
There are three species of snakes in Tasmania, all of that are venomous, together with the Tiger snake, Lowland Copperhead and White-lipped snake.
Snake exercise is ‘generally limited’ to the hotter months between October and March, in response to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment’s web site.
“Snakes are naturally shy animals and their first form of defence is to move away from danger … they will not deliberately chase humans, but if provoked or cornered they may bluff or even attempt to bite.”
“Most people who have been bitten were attempting to kill or handle a snake or have trodden on it – an attack from the snakes’ point of view. If you encounter a snake, the best thing to do is to let the snake go its own way.”
“The fangs of Tasmanian snakes are not particularly efficient so a lot of the poison is lost on the skin’s surface or on garments that the snake may have bitten through. Outside the body, the poison is harmless.”
