Huge Venomous Snake Found In Stove After Slithering Into Home Through Dog Door

A huge venomous snake was found inside a stove inside a house after it reportedly slithered in through the dog door. The incident took place in Semaphore, Adelaide, Australia, on Wednesday.

A woman called Snake Catchers Adelaide to her residence to retrieve a one-meter (3.2 foot) long eastern brown snake that had crawled into her house through the dog door and had curled itself up in the stove.

One of the snake catchers, Rolly Burell, said, “When we got there we had to dismantle the stove and it was right up near where the clock timer is on the old stoves.” He added, “It was wrapped all through the wires and the thermostat and we had to gently get the snake out.”

On being asked about the woman’s reaction toward the snake, he said she was shaken up by the experience. A snake catcher by profession for over 40 years, Burell noted that snakes are out early this year by about six weeks due to the warm weather and warned people about small snakes that are just as venomous as their larger counterparts. He also urged people to not be frightened and said, “Snakes are good, they get rid of a lot of feral cats, they get rid of a lot of rats and mice.”

Burell added, “We actually try to tell older people if they see something like that [small snake] in the lounge to suck it up with a vacuum cleaner, as long as they’re not having a go at a 1.5m (approx. 5 feet) brown snake.”

Adding that an average snake can eat up to 15 mice a week during the whole of summer, he reassured that the reptiles are not to be scared of and are very helpful in managing the ecosystem. Burell also spoke about finding snakes in odd places including a child’s lunchbox and in the rim of a toilet.