Snake Rescue April 2010

Snakes Rescue

When you need help with a snake, feel free to phone Derek or Jacques to remove the snake from your property, free of charge! They will take the snake to a safe place, away from residential properties and free it again. Our aim is to get people not to kill snakes; most people kill it just because it’s a snake and might be harmful to humans. Unfortunately we cannot always be available to come and help with snakes, as Derek is not in Mikpunt during daytime anymore .021 971 1237 or 072879 9911

Moll snake Shirley Duncan

Herald snake Agi and Mike

Herald Snake Ettien

Moll snake Ronnie (John said it’s a “Kaapse Kobra”)

Moll snake 2 x Aleta

Moll snake Vaalhuis

Moll snake Maryke

Moll snake (only lived a few hours badly hurt)

Moll snake Minnie en Johan

Cape Cobra Ray of Sunshine (Jacques unfortunately had to kill this one)

Moll Snake Donavan

Moll snake old man from the Vaalhuis (caught

Opposite Aletta,s by Jacques)

I am not even sure I mentioned all the snakes that’s been rescued, there were so many. I must say it stays a great concern to us to hear people telling the stories of killing snakes quite often. What concerns me is you do not get a Cape cobra that is 1.8, 2, or 2.5 meters they only grow up to 1.2 meters; this would have been a world record snake. Most of those snakes are mollies harmless to humans; they catch mice and other rodents good for the environment. The other poor snake that gets mistaken is the common egg eater, this poor snake has been killed as a Puff adder several times, the puff adder is thicker shorter and its head is totally different from the egg eater. And again the Puff adder don’t grow to 1,8 meter.

Good advice if you have a snake in your house or yard and want someone to remove it, throw a heavy blanket or cloth on it, it will feel save and stay there until someone can remove it. They love dark warm places. They don’t know they are not welcome, normally then are on the hunt for food. We mostly find/ rescue them from plots that got animals or birds, and there is plenty of food for them to eat.

If you see a snake in your yard and want us to come and catch it put something like a card box x or cloth or blanket so that it can crawl under it, it is no use calling us if it went into a hole or under the house or under some big heavy piles of rubble or wood. Because 9 times out of ten, we can’t find it again and you will most probably not see it again.