Deadly Snake Found 'Mating With Garden Hose', Captured [Video]

A deadly snake had a mating mix-up after it confused a garden hose with another reptile nearby. The Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7, who were called to deal with the snake, shared a video of the incident on Facebook.

The snake catchers were called after an elderly woman found the reptile in her garden in Australia. The woman saw the snake had wrapped itself around a garden hose. A representative for Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 mentioned on Facebook the male eastern brown snake "must have been confused," after finding another snake near the long rubber hose and got the two mixed up.

“When we arrived at a call for a big brown snake, Richie straight away spotted a healthy Eastern Brown Snake mating with the garden hose!!!" the Facebook post said.

"At a closer look... we found a darker Eastern Brown Snake next to it, and he must have been confused with the garden hose being right next to them.”

"Waiting for a chance to get them both, the smaller and darker one disappeared without a trace but managed to catch the bigger one and relocated him back into the bush!" the post read.

A video shared on Facebook showed a snake catcher entering the woman’s garden, and then laughing when he realized what was happening.

"He's mating with the hose," he says in the video. "I think there's a second snake there, but he's mating with the hose as opposed to the snake ... they're getting confused with the hose and mating with the hose.”

The snake was more than five-foot-long, while some eastern brown snakes have been known to reach seven feet in length. According to the Australian Museum, eastern brown snakes begin their breeding activity in mid to late spring.

These snakes are particularly dangerous and have caused over half of Australia’s snake-bite deaths. It is also rated as the second-most venomous snake in the world.

The snake catcher captured the reptile and released it into the wild. However, the other snake escaped.

“No doubt we will be back at that property for the other one soon... and not for the hose," the company posted on Facebook.