Having u cuppa an heard the mouse trap go off! I love mouse traps _ - Ebony Parker
Posted by Anthony Parker on Monday, January 18, 2016
A video is making rounds online when a man made a shocking discovery of finding a venomous snake caught in a mouse trap inside his family home. Anthony Parker, from Cascade in Western Australia, said his family had set up several mouse traps around his home over the weekend after his wife heard what she thought were mice.
On Monday evening, the young father found a large tiger snake after hearing the trap go snap. 'I turned around, had a quick look and literally jumped off my stool because there was a snake about three metres away from me in the mouse-trap,' Parker told The Esperance Express.
He also thinks that the venomous snake was just trying to escape by biting the trap off. Marker added that the snake may have thought the trap was alive trying to get it. He believes the mice could have led the reptile into their property when the family were away.
Parker said that he usually doesn't kill snakes but the trap had made it difficult to release the distressed reptile so he decided to put it out of its misery.
'I did feel sorry for it, but I couldn't risk moving it when it was like that, I didn't want it in the house, but I don't kill snakes unless they are around the house because we have a little boy.'
During the encounter, Parker filmed the snake in the trap and uploaded the video on social media, so he could have a tale to tell his family and friends.
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