Christmas cobra an unwanted gift
‘There have been an unusually high number of snakes around lately'
Of all the things that go bump in the night, a Forest Cobra is the least expected and most unwanted – especially on Christmas Day.
‘I got a call at around 9pm from a resident in a complex at Arboretum, near the lake,’ said always-on-standby snake catcher Fred Lubbe.
‘The gent had walked onto his unlighted patio and heard a ‘thump’ sound behind him.
‘There was nowhere the snake could have fallen from and I think it had struck at him – that was the noise – and fortunately missed or else he would have had a nasty few weeks ahead of him.
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‘Once he put the light on he saw the 1.3m female Forest Cobra and kept an eye on it until I arrived,’ said Fred.
‘This particular reptile is not very aggressive, unlike some of the others I have recently captured.
‘There have been an unusually high number of snakes around lately, probably owing to the amount of rain we’ve had this summer.’
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