By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
IT’S not every day that an evening meal is disrupted by a copperhead snake, but that was the case for members of one Cranbourne south family on Tuesday night when they were forced to swap their salad tongs for snake tongs!
Snake Catcher Victoria’s Barry Goldsmith said the juvenile copperhead snake would have been brought in by the cat.
“If you let cats roam they will bring snakes inside,” Mr Goldsmith said.
The Cranbourne mother spoke to 3AW Breakfast show hosts Ross and John on air about the evening visit, saying her toddler daughter notified them of the snake.
“My three-year-old daughter found it. She came running in saying ‘snake, snake, snake’.
“Our first reaction was she’s a bit if a storyteller and shouldn’t make up things like that up… but sure enough it was a juvenile snake,” she told 3AW listeners.
But Mr Goldsmith said copperhead snakes are “our friends”.
“They are misunderstood,” he said.
“Copperhead snakes are not so dangerous, they have never killed anybody in Australia and they eat tiger snakes.”
Mr Goldsmith said he caught four adult copperhead snakes throughout the south east region on Wednesday 16 March and one on a Botanic Ridge property.
