One of the last things you want to find slithering across your dashboard on a trip to the shops is a snake but that was the reality for one woman at the Noosa Junction IGA car park this week.
Sunshine Coast Snake Catcher Stuart McKenzie was phoned by the frantic woman who had just returned to her car after a shop at the IGA and discovered the brown coloured snake.
Stuart said the snake disappeared from sight into the air vent but his snake catcher, Nat, managed to encourage it back out of the vent.
The common tree snake was safely captured for release in a more appropriate spot.
Stuart said with January generally their busiest month of the year it had been a hectic time for Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7.
He said they had caught all types of snakes including brown, red-bellied black, tree, whip and carpet pythons and expected their work to continue at the same pace with snakes on the move at present.
Snakes have been turning up in all sorts of places but in a recent call to a Buderim residence residents were distressed to discover their pet cat had been taken by a large carpet python.
Stuart said he had seen a number of 3m carpet pythons that were quite capable of making a meal of a small-sized pet.
To contact Sunshine Coast Snake Catcher 24/7 phone 0409 536 000.
