PICS | ‘She was just lying there and you could see she had a huge meal for lunch’ – Snake catcher rescues python

Cape Town – Snake catcher Sarel van der Merwe rescued a Southern African python that was struggling to move after it had a big meal.

The python was captured in Palm Beach in KwaZulu-Natal.

Van der Merwe shared the moment on his Facebook page, showing pictures of the enormous snake.

He said he got a call about the python after neighborhood dogs alerted residents to the snake.

“Got there and I had to jump over there (their) fence to get to the Python. She was just lying there, as you can see that she had a huge meal for lunch. I think she had a Duiker for lunch,

“Normally when you handle a snake after they ate, they regurgitate their food… Lucky she didn’t,” he wrote.

He said if he hadn’t moved the snake, the neighbours would have made a plan with it, “which is not good”.

The python was safely released at a farm.