A busy Victoria Point pharmacy had a slippery customer at noon on Thursday, August 23 with a 1.5 metre python discovered on a top shelf.
Snake catcher Tony Morrison said he could not discover how the snake got into the pharmacy and checked for possible entry through the roof, without success.
“It was busy when I got there and once I had got the python off the shelf, many of the customers wanted to touch it. Even the pharmacist had a pat,” he said.
Mr Morrison said the python was relocated in local bushland.
“This was my third call out to a snake in two days, but this one was a bit different,” he said.
Mr Morrison said the other two snakes were a tree snake at Alexandra Hills and a small eyed snake at Thornlands.
“The small eyed snake is venemous but you’d have to be pretty unlucky for anything to happen,” he said.
Mr Morrison said snake call outs were on the increase, although he said winter had not quietened down as it used to.
“People think that winter slows them down, but that’s a myth. Snakes are busy all year around,” he said.
Mr Morrison said identification was much easier now with people able to send in photos of snakes to facebook.com/redlandssnakes.
