An 11-year-old girl has discovered a deadly eastern brown snake in a pool-side inflatable after she nearly sat on it.
Mum Melissa Fenton’s young daughter, Stacie, found the highly venomous snake in her back garden in Glen Osmond, South Australia, on Tuesday.
The 43-year-old mother told Daily Mail Australia that her children had been playing in the pool all day when Stacie found the snake. “We had two small children aged two and one who had been in the boat but they left and it was my four children messing about when they found the snake. They took the inflatable out of the pool and carried on messing about, before they went to get the boat back in the pool and that’s when the snake reared up,” she said.
Ms Fenton said that thankfully, Stacie reared up otherwise she could have been bitten. “She high-tailed it, jumped back in the pool, got around to the other side and came to find me, and that’s when we called the snake catcher. The snake catcher said it was a feisty one because it had been out in the sun and so had plenty of time to warm up. It was really scary,” she said.
The snake catcher, who was not the far from the family home, swiftly captured and placed the snake into a bag.
Despite the terrifying discovery, Sam, aged nine, Phoebe, seven, Liam, 13, and Stacie were back in the pool later that day.
Eastern brown snakes, considered the second most venomous land snakes in the world, are native to Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and are found throughout eastern Australia. They are commonly found in open grassland, pastures and woodland but also stray into homes as they search for house mice to feed on.
Its bites can cause diarrhea, dizziness, convulsions, renal failure, paralysis, cardiac arrest and death.
Source: Dailymail.co.uk
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