Happy ending for python caught in Port Edward
If you need a snake removed, contact Sarel on 082 6831604.
Snake catcher, Sarel van der Merwe helped remove a four-metre Southern African python from a farm in Port Edward earlier this week.
Sarel got a phone call from farmer, Ken Reilander who had spotted the large reptile between banana plants.
Grateful the farmer had called him, Sarel drove to the farm with his good friend Paul Crook.
“Half his body was lying in water, so I’m glad that we could remove him from the farm,” said Sarel.
Southern African pythons are protected as vulnerable in the latest South African Red Data book, and may not be captured or killed.
Sarel said a python is one of a kind; a very large and bulky snake that cannot be easily confused with other snakes.
He successfully released the giant snake at Mark Lindsay’s farm inland of Tweni on Tuesday this week.
If you need a snake removed, contact Sarel on 082 6831604.
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