

I advise anyone not to try and catch a snake and relocate it themselves because it could end up not so good.

She said that I was quite sick, I had antivenin but I still suffers from nerve damage and lack of smell. Ms Hill, who was bitten by a smaller red-bellied black snake during a relocation, said Mr Bates' decision to leave it alone was wise. It wasn't being aggressive so it wasn't heart-stopping or anything like that, so I took a step back and told my wife There's a snake'' and she did the same. due to their small size and speed, milk snakes can be true escape artists.

Mr Bates said he had never planned to tackle the serpent himself, having already dealt with several slithering trespassers over the years. Californian kingsnake and the stunningly-spotted Florida King Snake (the. She said we have tricks of the trade where we go out and try different things to coax them out. Ms Hill said anyone who came across a snake in an unusual location should be clear to avoid getting bitten and to call a professional to remove it if needed. Since the beginning of winter, the Cairns Hospital has treated eight people for snake bites, some of whom were transferred from other hospitals in the wider Far North Queensland region. It can be quite an ordeal trying to catch a snake from a car. She said that around this time of year, I get quite a lot of calls with snakes either in cars or in obscure places trying to get that warmth. Hayley Hill, who runs a reptile relocation service and received Mr Bates' call for help, said snakes too felt the sting of low temperatures. The Bureau of Meteorology's gauges in Mareeba this week recorded single-figure temperatures for the first time this year. Help the snake get its food and escape from the room Enjoy Snake Escape. That could be a big issue because the snake would hardly move around. It must eat the foods to keep survive, but it’s also getting bigger, every time it ate its food. He said that we were supposed to use this car to pick up our other car from servicing but we couldn't, he said. A snake is locked in a room, with foods and coins. The perfect hiding place for the snake was provided by the mostly black engine bay of the car, already crowded with serpentine hoses.Įven when a professional snake handler was called in to remove it, the elusive creature continued to thwart Mr Bates' attempts to get done what he needed to. Mr Bates and the snake retreated in kind, both surprised by the intrusion on their mid-morning activity. The other car had some rodent droppings under the bonnet, so I thought I'd check this one as well, so I thought I'd check that one as well, Mr Bates said. In the engine bay of Alan Bates' Bates' Mercedes is a 204 horsepower engine considered to be the peak of German engineering and a highly venomous black snake.Īfter lifting the bonnet on Wednesday, Mr Bates discovered the beady-eyed boarder to check for a different kind of unwanted visitor.
