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Woman makes creepy kitchen discovery while washing dishes

A woman’s housework was interrupted when a venomous snake joined her in the kitchen.

She had been washing dishes on Thursday morning at Wistow, a small town in South Australia, when the red bellied-black snake slithered past her along the bench top between the sink and window.

“She got the shock of her life,” Ange Broadstock from Snake Catchers Adelaide said.

The snake slipped behind the microwave and the woman folded up a towel and placed it around the appliance.

A woman had been washing up when a snake slithered past her in the space between the sink and the window. Source: Snake Catchers Adelaide/ Facebook
A woman had been washing up when a snake slithered past her in the space between the sink and the window. Source: Snake Catchers Adelaide/ Facebook

Fortunately, the small reptile was still behind the microwave when snake catcher Ange Broadstock arrived about half an hour later to retrieve it.

The snake catcher and the resident are trying to figure out how such a small snake made its way up onto the benchtop.

Ms Broadstock does not think it could have climbed up the outside of the home and entered through the window.

She believes the most likely way it slipped into the kitchen was by wriggling up through the drain and coming out of the sink.

“Amazing the places you find them,” one Facebook user wrote on the video.

“Oh great can’t go to the toilet, have a shower or bath, can’t have a sliding door or doggy door and now can’t use the kitchen sink,” another person, who was not as impressed by the discovery, commented.

It is thought the small snake may have come up through the drain in the kitchen sink. Source: Snake Catchers Adelaide/ Facebook
It is thought the small snake may have come up through the drain in the kitchen sink. Source: Snake Catchers Adelaide/ Facebook

The snake catcher explained red-bellied blacks can be dangerous to dogs and humans, explaining they could kill a dog within an hour, depending on the dog’s size, where it was bitten and how much venom was injected.

“There are no reported deaths (for humans) but (their bite) can have very long term affects on the body,” Ms Broadstock explained.

The Australian Reptile Park website describes red-bellied black snakes as “dangerously venomous” but added bites are rare.

“It is usually a placid and fairly docile snake, preferring to enact a lengthy bluff display with flattened neck and deep hisses rather than bite,” the Australian Reptile Park website says.