Shocking discover in water-filled pit: ‘Worst feasible headache’

What some have actually called their “worst possible nightmare” is done in a day’s help one Aussie serpent catcher.

Heather, from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7, is made use of to going to tasks where she often tends to animals without any legs– so picture her shock when she found 56 legs waiting for rescue inside a water-filled pit at Image Flat.

Inside a UnityWater upkeep opening was a yellow-faced whip serpent, 8 toads and 3 big crawlers.

“There was quite a bit going on in there!” Heather informed Yahoo News.

Workers informed Heather the pit is just accessed one a year– if that– so it’s unidentified how much time the pets were entraped stepping water at night.

“Some of those animals could’ve been in there for a year, it’s impossible to say,” she claimed, though she noted she was thrilled with the serpent’s problem.

“There is absolutely no way he could’ve got out. But he would’ve also had a food source in there, he could’ve fed on little lizards, skinks, even the spiders if he had to.

“They’re not known as a water snake but you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do to survive in the wild.”

While she saved the 40cm adolescent whip serpent and launched it a couple of roads away, she left it as much as the UnityWater team to take on the remainder of the sufferers.

“It’s just one of those freaks of nature that he ended up in that pit,” she claimed.

Drains and manholes aren’t the only locations where serpents obtain stuck. This week, a serpent obtained ruining injuries after coming to be entraped in netting. Last month, a serpent was saved after coming to be stuck inside a pipeline at a target array.

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