Deadly Snake Attempting To Hunt Kittens Caught At The Right Moment [Video]

Video of a snake catcher saving kittens from a black mamba by capturing the reptile at the right moment has gone viral. The incident took place in Durban, South Africa.

In the YouTube video, the snake catcher, Jason Arnold, says he arrived at the business property after receiving information that a python was lurking around. Arnold soon realizes that the snake is actually an eight-feet-long black mamba and rushes to his car to get tongs. Arnold is then told by the business owner that there are kittens under the pallets.

Arnold and his crew remove some of the pallets and find two kittens hiding under them. They continue to move the rest of the pallets and finally find the reptile hiding under one of them. Arnold uses the snake tongs to remove the reptile before relocating it.

Arnold says in the video that the kittens are "lucky" to be alive. He says that had people not spotted the reptile, it would have eaten the felines.

"Black mambas can smell kittens on a property. I’m not sure how many kittens where there initially, but I saved two on the day. The black mamba has since been released into a suitable habitat away from people and homes," Arnold told local newspaper Northglen News on Thursday.

He also warned residents to avoid confrontation from the venomous snake and said there will be an increase in snake spotting as the mating season begins.

"Now that we’re going into peak season in Spring, it’s mating time for most snakes so there’s a lot of activity. With weather warning up and rainfall increasing, there will be more snakes around," he told the newspaper.

Meanwhile, the kittens have been rescued and handed over to an animal rescue center.

The incident comes a month after a snake catcher removed a black mamba from an elderly woman’s laundry room in Durban. The woman called the snake catcher after the reptile slithered past her leg. The snake catcher removed the reptile after it played hide-and-seek with him.