By Amelia Willmer
How often do kids need reminding to close the toilet lid after use?
Look what happens when they don’t!
Anthony was called to retrieve this eastern brown coiled in the toilet bowl of a bathroom at Allora at 7pm one night recently.
The five-foot-long snake (nearly two metres) had come in for the outside in search of water.
Then there was the Goomburra lady, on her way back from Allora with all the groceries the other week.
She was heading up her long driveway when she heard a noise on the passenger side near her feet and was shocked to see a massive big red belly black curled up.
“She ran for the hills and managed to call me,” Anthony said.
“By the time I go there, it seemed to be gone. I searched thoroughly but could find no sign so, to be on the safe side, we set up a dash-cam and left the car’s doors open. Later, the footage showed him slithering out and away.”
In other jobs, Anthony has been called to get snakes out of cars’ chasiss.
“Sometimes, people run over a snake and it jumps up under the car and wraps itself in the chassis rails and tubing.
“My advice is, if you run over a snake, and can’t see where it is, leave the car overnight.”
In another memorable incident, Anthony was called to a house in Toowoomba where a woman had been taken to hospital after being bitten by a red belly black.
Her husband called Anthony who found the huge reptile under a box in the shed where she had been bitten.
One of the saddest aspects of Anthony’s job is when pet owners don’t react in time to save their dogs or cats.
“If you see your pet teasing and playing with a snake, don’t assume it hasn’t been bitten because the pet is not displaying any symptoms,” he warned.
“Get them to the vet straight away, no matter what, because the symptoms can come crashing in much later, very suddenly and very quickly. By then, it is too late.
“My cousin had a rottweiler that was playing with a snake. The dog looked to be OK but two hours later it was dead.”
For more information on Anthony’s service, call him on 047 804 7457 or email him on anthsnakes@gmail.com
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Look what was lurking in the toilet bowl at Allora!
