By Max Aitchison For Daily Mail Australia
07:52 07 May 2023, upgraded 07:52 07 May 2023
- Panicked lady vacuumed a snake
- Animal lived and launched into wild
An experienced snake catcher was left gobsmacked after reacting to a call where a worried lady had actually vacuumed a poisonous snake.
Drew Godfrey, who runs Hervey Bay Snake Catchers in Queensland, received a call from a couple at a vacation resort in the location on Tuesday.
‘Just when you believe you’ve seen it all in this job, somebody calls you and says their spouse has actually drawn a snake up with the vacuum!’, he composed on Facebook.
The snake catcher published a video of himself saving the snake from the vacuum.
‘This is a bit various,’ he says as he tentatively inspects the vacuum tube prior to getting rid of the bag and tearing it open.
‘It’s a yellow-faced whipsnake.’
‘Poor little person, I wager that drawn for you. I’m simply pleased it’s all right – I hesitated we were going to show up to a dead snake.’
He includes: ‘I was lured to choose him up and hold him however he may nip, particularly after that experience.’
Mr Godfrey then loaded the snake into a plastic box significant ‘threat: poisonous snakes’ prior to launching him into the wild.
The snake was a newborn hatchling yellow-faced whip snake, a slim, fast-moving types that prevails throughout Australia.
The types, which are frequently puzzled for the very venous eastern brown snake, can grow to approximately a metre in length.
They are poisonous however ruled out especially hazardous to people.
‘I’ve been envenomated 3 times by these snakes,’ Godfrey informed Newsweek. ‘It’s like a bee sting.’
Mr Godfrey informed the couple the snake was a safeguarded types which it would be ‘vicious and prohibited’ to leave it therein.
