Snake Spotted Trying To Mate With Garden Hose After Mistaking It For Another Snake

 

A deadly snake was captured after 'getting confused' and trying to mate with a garden hose.

The eastern brown snake, one of the deadliest snakes in the world, had wandered into a woman's garden in Australia and may have been mating with another snake before getting mixed up and latching onto the hose

Snake wranglers called to deal with the deadly reptile that had taken up residence in an elderly woman’s garden were stunned to discover that it had taken something of a fancy to her garden hose.

The male eastern brown snake "must have been confused,” said the snake catcher, after finding another snake near the long rubber hose and getting the two mixed up.

Writing on Facebook, a consultant from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 stated: “When we arrived at a name for a large brown snake, Richie right now noticed a healthful Eastern Brown Snake mating with the garden hose!!!

"At a closer look,” they persevered, “we determined a darker Eastern Brown Snake next to it, and he should have been careworn with the lawn hose being proper next to them.”

A video suggests the snake catcher getting into the female’s lawn, before cracking up whilst he realised what he had found: "He's mating with the hose," he says inside the video.

"I suppose there may be a second snake there, but he's mating with the hose instead of the snake ... They are getting stressed with the hose and mating with the hose.”

The snake they stuck changed into pretty a big example, at a shade over 5 toes lengthy, even though some eastern brown snakes were recognised to attain 7 toes in period.

It’s a specially risky creature. Responsible for a touch over half of of Australia’s snake-chew deaths the jap brown is rated as the second-most venomous snake on Earth.

They’re additionally very dangerous to dogs and cats, and pets bitten by an japanese brown almost always must be put down.

You simply don’t want one placing out on your lawn, despite the fact that a few reptile fans have been acknowledged to hold them as pets.

The five-foot beast captured by the snake-catchers become taken away and released into the wild, at the same time as the smaller one made its get away. Its freedom may be quick-lived although: “No doubt we can be lower back at that property for the other one quickly... And now not for the hose," the agency posted to Facebook.