Wild goose chase for Southern African Rock Python
Spoiler alert: it was a winner, winner, goose dinner for the large reptile.
LOCAL snake rescuer, Nick Evans was called to two separate homes in the greater Durban area to relocate two dangerous snakes.
A Mozambique Spitting Cobra was seen near a pet rabbit cage while a Southern African Python slithered its way into a goose pen.
The first stop for the daring snake expert was in Drummond where he was a alerted to a large snake slithering towards a rabbit enclosure inside the house.
“These snakes wouldn’t eat a large rabbit. However, when I arrived, I noticed it was busy having lunch. A toad being the meal of the day. Apparently the toad was a resident in the lounge, and the cobra sniffed it out,” said Evans.
He then rushed off to retrieve a boomslang from a workshop in Assagay.
The snake had eaten two of three Cape Robin Chats that were being cared for by the owners of the property.
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He then received a call to retrieve a South African Python from a goose cage in Ashburton.
“The python was lying behind a tyre bed used by geese as a laying place. It wasn’t a big python, maybe 2.5m, but with a very full tummy! Goose for dinner, lucky snake,” said Evans.
After what he described as an easy catch, the snake was soon released in a wild area.
“To my surprise, it had still kept its meal down, and slithered off to digest its dinner,” he said.
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