TRADESMEN have saved an injured snake in Cranbourne West.
The highly venomous copperhead snake was found on a construction site on Everlasting Boulevard in Cranbourne West, around 1pm on Wednesday 13 April.
The region’s snake catcher Barry Goldsmith said he was very impressed with the way the Winslow Constructors handled the deadly animal.
“Normally builders just kill the snakes- but they had it in a hessian bag in the site office, I wish everybody did it like that,” Ms Goldsmith said.
“They found it in the dirt where they were digging and there’s a lot of heavy machinery down there so I’m not surprised it was injured.”
Mr Goldsmith took the mature copperhead to the Karingal Vet Hospital, where it will get stitches.
“I’ll look after the snake for about a month until the stitches come out and then I will release it into natural swamp land in the greater Cranbourne area,” he said.
Mr Goldsmith said copperhead snakes are often mistaken for brown snakes.
“I’m in Casey all the time catching snakes, copperheads are the most common in south-west Cranbourne – they are very gentle snakes and reluctant to bite.”
