A mother-of-two says she was horrified to discover a deadly brown snake in her infant daughter’s bedroom just one hour after the four-month-old had been sleeping in her cot.
Alecia Mitchley said she found the one-metre-long snake slithering around her daughter Sophie’s door, before watching on as it crawled into the little girl’s bed, according to 9 News Melbourne.
‘It was petrifying, I was very scared. I didn’t know what to do,’ Ms Mitchley said.
‘I’m trying to reach for my phone and trying to stop my son from trying to go see the snake…it was, yes, very scary’.
A mother made a horrifying discovery when she found a one-metre deadly brown snake in her four-month-old daughter’s cot (pictured)
Gold Coast mother Alecia Mitchley said she found the one-metre-long snake slithering around her daughter Sophie’s door, before watching on as it crawled into the little girl’s bed
Ms Mitchely said she was stunned when she noticed the snake’s ability to quickly climb throughout the bedroom.
‘I couldn’t believe it could climb. It was climbing on through the window, it was up on around her bassinet – uh, her cot, in her cot, it was all over,’ she said.
Snake catchers have warned the public to be on the look-out for snakes, especially now that it is mating season.
‘The males are on a mission to find a female and they’ll travel out in the open – across roads, people’s backyards and everything,’ Gold Coast snake catcher Tony Harrison said.
‘I’m trying to reach for my phone and trying to stop my son from trying to go see the snake…it was, yes, very scary,’ Ms Mitchley (pictured) said
The public has also been advised to keep windows and doors shut to keep the unwanted snakes out.
The pseudonaja textilis, known as the common brown snake, is said to be the second most venomous snake in the world and the deadliest in Australia.
The brown snake, which can be found in eastern Australia, is known to be fast, aggressive and hot-tempered.
If provoked, the snake forms an ‘S’ shape, with its mouth open and ready to strike. If bitten by the brown snake, it can cause paralysis and a collapse within minutes.
Brown snakes are responsible for more deaths in the country than any other group of snakes.