Rescue Monday: Snake

So this happened at my house at noon today. A baby non-poisonous ‘Rat snake’ got itself stuck inside the compressor of one of our air-conditioning units at my house. It was slightly injured from the fan blades which it must’ve made contact with when the AC was turned on in the morning.

My mom @geethrao heard a loud tapping sound and immediately turned it off. Luckily preventing further harm to the snake. However it has had suffered a nasty slash nonetheless as it's still a baby (maybe about 3 months). But I doubt many snakes or humans can make a direct contact with a fast spinning compressor fan and not get injured.

I called a couple of my friends including @varunpinto who gave his friend's contact. Tauseef who I was acquainted with from a past fundraising event for Animal Care Trust, Mangalore is a businessman but volunteers part time for animal rescues came over within in minutes after our chat and helped in rescuing the snake.

He's taking it to the vet and we're hopeful that it can recover. From a close initial look it seemed as though the spine is intact even as it was bleeding. There was some delay in getting the technicians to come over and open up the compressor unit for inspection and therefore I think it might make it as it hadn't bled to death already.

^{Notice the slash within circle above? I couldn't get a better shot. But it's deep.}

It was so scared and not at all aggressive when Tauseef picked it up. We placed it into the bag and he took it away. Now I'm just awaiting updates on the way forward. Fingers crossed for it's recovery.

India is a tropical country and growing up I've seen all kinds of snakes in my neighbourhood as it's got a lot of green cover. I've been bitten by a bigger snake same type as this baby once when I was a kid. We also had a Python swallow one of our cats and a Cobra or Rat snake mistakenly entered our house once but my folks managed to get it out eventually.

They used to be a very common sight in my younger years but that's changed drastically. These days we have to be lucky to see a handful in a year if at all. They habitats are largely destroyed by ever increasing human population.

If you see a snake where it's not supposed to be, then please call a professional snake catcher. Don't kill it! Ok?

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