Snake Catcher Finds 'Highly Venomous' Snake Hiding So Deep in a Couch It 'Takes Nearly an Hour' to Remove the Reptile

Mar. 15, 2025

Stock photo of a red-bellied black snake.

Could you be sharing your sofa with a dangerous snake? A family in Australia found out the answer was “Yes!”

According toa Facebook post from Snake Catcher Dan, a licensed snake removal service in Australia, the company received a call on Feb. 15 about a reptile spotted near a family’s couch.

“I received a call from one of my followers about a red-bellied black snake that was hiding under the couch in his living room,” Snake Catcher Dan wrote on social media, noting that red-bellied black snakes are “highly venomous” reptiles.

Snake Catcher Dan added on Facebook that the couch containing the snake was a large L-shaped sofa that “couldn’t be pulled apart.”

“There was plenty of spots the snake could get that I couldn’t,” Snake Catcher Dan wrote.

Footage shared with the post shows the snake catcher carefully examining the sizable sofa to locate the reptile inside. Sometimes, the professional finds the snake but cannot reach it because of the couch’s construction.

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Snake Catcher Dan shared on Facebook that it took “nearly an hour of searching” before the snake catcher located the venomous reptile inside the couch, in a spot where he could reach the animal.

The clip from the job shows the snake catcher removing the “gorgeous red-bellied black snake” from the underside of the sofa through a zippered pocket. The video ends with the snake catcher placing the snake in a bag to relocate it to a less populated area.

Australians are no strangers to snake surprises. On Feb. 11, Tim Hudson of Hudson Snake Catching responded to a home in a Gold Coast suburb where the family had founda venomous snake in their washing machine.

Hudson removed the eastern brown snakes, which he called the “second most toxic snake in the world,” from the appliance without issue but called the experience “crazy.”

source: people.com