THIRD TIME LUCKY.
Quick call to a house in Kalamunda yesterday.
I had attended this property a few weeks ago for a snake that had managed to hide underneath an in-ground spa, but after 30 minutes of waiting for it to reappear, no such luck.
Fast forward to yesterday, and the same residents had a small dugite peeking in their window.
20 minutes away, we hit up the hill as quick (and legally) as possible, and literally as we ran up the front steps, the snake darted under their decking. No chance of getting it out :/
We left, but didn’t even get to the end of their street, before I got the call saying it had come back out, and was on the back patio.
1 U-turn and 20 seconds later, we raced back up the steps, and managed to secure this little dude before he disappeared again.
Sorted!
Shoutout to our 9yo son Ryder who filmed both the catch and release. He did an amazing job! 😍
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THE WALL OF DOOM!
Not quite, but this massive wall of firewood was a daunting sight when I first arrived at this callout.
Thankfully, it was flush against the wall, and this cute little dude was just hiding at the back of one little gap.
Always a risk when lying down to try and catch a snake… I wasn’t quite expecting g him to come flying out hahaha.
As always though, this highly venomous snake had absolutely ZERO interest in getting anywhere near me, and just tried to flee.
A quick check over, and an easy release after taking another look at this stunner.
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NIGHT NIGHT DUGITE (next children’s book? 🤣)
Dugite number 5 for the year, over 6 days, and another night time relocation.
This one spotted in a canary aviary in Lesmurdie, not too far from the scarp edge.
Another great example of natural rodent control, this one also having a full belly of (presumably) mice and rats.
Being so warm last night, even at 10:30, I felt it would be ok to release, and it took off into some bush scrub to chill and digest its hard earned meal.
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TOO CLOSE TO HOME?! (Not close enough 😝)
And I thought the Walliston Dugite was as close to home as we could get!
This stunner proved me wrong when it showed up on a back patio a 20 second drive from our house! 😱.
The street actually starts on the opposite side of one of our driveways lol.
Definitely not your standard meet-the-neighbours kind of event 🤣.
Luckily they did an awesome job of watching while I made the huuuuuge drive to get there.
And what a beauty. Good to see we have nice big, healthy snakes around, helping with rodent control.
What a cracker 😍
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GOOD AS GOLD
Despite living in a beautiful part of the hills, we don’t often get to catch too many snakes close to home.
However, yesterday I got a call for a snake in Walliston, literally 2 minutes from home!
Despite being with a work client 45 minutes away, the residents did an epic job of keeping the snake contained so I could swing past on my home.
Legends!!
Following on form the banded dugite on New Year’s Day, this is another great example of variability in colouring and patterning of our incredible Dugites.
This one being a super healthy, 4.5ft golden straw coloured individual, with minimal spotting and a lighter coloured head. This one was also spotted eating a lizard when it was first encountered.
A beautifully calm snake, with an amazing personality, showing these snakes really have ZERO desire to do us any harm.
An absolute pleasure to work with a snake like this 😍
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BANDED BEAUTY 😍
Now that the first snake of the year is in the bag - and then out again - 2025 can officially begin!
And what a way to start the year. This ridiiiiiiculously stunning Dugite was cornered in a backyard in High Wycombe this evening.
Rightfully a bit agitated, it was still an easy catch thankfully.
But check this baby out!
You know how we always say Dugites can be highly variable in colour and pattern? This is a prime example.
Bands, spots, multiple colouring - all in the one animal!
What an absolute cracker of a snake 😍.
These guys make me so happy sometimes 🥰
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Ok, so THIS is the last relocation of 2024. Another came through hahaha.
Annnnnnd it makes snake NUMBER 4 from this ONE aviary. Since October 😱
It appears providing the perfect environment will definitely bring the snakes to your yard.
This particular big boy had shed its skin in the aviary, and also taken care of a few mice for the residents.
As found out when it regurgitated them ALL in my catch bag…..
And eventful one to end the year … 🤮
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LAST RELOCATION OF 2024 (maybe).
“The Best $50 I’ve Ever Spent”
Hot day today, resulted in this adorable little dugite ending up inside a bedroom in Darlington. Well, in the toilet!
Classic Australia, with its dunny snakes 🤣.
A fairly simple catch and release, I did decide to pin and head grab the snake to check on a wound - PLEASE NEVER EVER DO THIS!! - but thankfully it was an older injury and already healing.
Thank you everyone for your support on 2024. We love having the privilege of helping you with your unwanted visitors, and on the flip side, we love helping snakes with people problems.
Stay safe, be good, and we will see you in the new year!
A DUGITE A DAY, KEEPS…. SOMETHING AWAY
Following the Xmas day dugite, we were called to relocate another on Boxing Day evening, and then another one yesterday.
Some catches we get lucky and some interesting behaviour happens, that we can show you all and provide education - that is WHY we do this. Education and saving animals.
Most snake catches are pretty straightforward though. And this one is a prime example.
Caught and released within 2 minutes total (not including talking to the residents and time driving to the release spot).
Simple, quick, safe and easy.
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CRACKER CHRISTMAS BUDGIE SMUGGLER!!
Merry Christmas folks. Hope you all had a safe, calm, stress-free enjoyable day.
It wouldn’t be an Aussie Xmas for us without at least one snake catch for the day 😉.
Was a late one, but that was perfect for us.
Not so much for the one budgie that ended up as a faux Christmas turkey for this beautiful dugite.
Probably not so much for the one remaining budgie either, to be fair.
Kudos to the residents who were still happy to call us to have the snake relocated though. Amazing humans. They also did a great job of making sure it stayed in the bird cage, although not sure how it got in there, and how it would get it.
A struggle to find a reasonable release spot, but we found a decent patch in the end.
Was also great to have my dad, little brother and his new gf along for the ride 😝.
Merry Christmas from all of us here at Perth Hills Reptile Removals 🐍🐍
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DF-OH-NO!!
Well it isn’t just humans that need to finish up their Xmas shopping!
A call came from our snake catchers network for a snake that had somehow managed to get INSIDE the food court of the DFO this morning.
Being only 20 minutes or so away, I headed down.
Luckily the staff had done a great job of keeping an eye on the snake, and it was taking refuge behind some boxes behind the counter of Mumbai Rocks.
An easy catch, and then came the tricky part of finding a suitable release spot.
There are quite a few patches of bush surrounding the airport areas, including some narrow bush corridors where these creatures can travel through.
I found the best spot I could given the location, and our little dude gave us a cool little behaviour show before heading back where he belongs.
Don’t despair however! A snake inside this shopping centre is a very rare occurrence, and is a huge surprised it even happened in the first place!
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No catch video for this one, but here is the release of a snake that we don’t get to see very often - and it happens to be one of the cutest snakes EVER 😍
This is a southern shovel nosed snake.
A small, nocturnal, weakly venomous burrowing species. They can actually be widespread, but being nocturnal and shy burrowers, we don’t come across them much.
This little one had ended up in a pool in Stratton - another one trying to escape the heat this week.
As always, please don’t handle snakes the way that we do. I knew what species it was, and what it is capable of. Even they are not technically dangerous to humans and very rarely bite, always use safe practices!
Enjoy 3 minutes of me gushing over how bloody adorable this cutie was 🥰
