ALEX Viossat of Port Edward is of the opinion that snakes are on the move at the moment, searching for suitable accommodation for hibernating during winter.
He has a frequent, welcome visitor to his house in the shape of a slender, harmless brilliant green snake with a well-defined neck and head.
Recently a two-metre black mamba had to be removed from one house, a puff adder from the veranda of another house and the writer has one who visits a small pond off the veranda to eat the Natal sand frogs.
When asked how the removal was done, the answer was ‘carefully’, but for a fee, experts from Pure Venom will handle urban snake problems.
One Port Edward bowler, who is an ardent supporter of ‘live and let live’, has a symbiotic relationship with a green mamba which lives in the ceiling of his garage.
Some misguided residents recently killed a pair of mature green mambas. Even though they were at the top of a tree several metres above the ground, they were considered a threat.
Some say ‘the only good snake is a dead snake’, while others howl in protest and say they have a very important role in keeping rodents’ numbers down and are not a threat if treated with respect.
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