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By APD Writer Chen Jiabao
BANGKOK, Sept.21 (APD) - - Thailand's Department of National Parks said they have received about 300 snakes every month that have been caught in people’s homes in and around Bangkok.
Kanchana Nittaya,
director of the Wildlife Conservation office said so far in the first half of September 460 snakes of which most were pythons were sent to the clinic before being sent to the breeding station in a province east to Bangkok.
They would be released to to the jungle from there.
She said the snakes are out of their hiding places during the rainy season to feed on small animals such as rats near communities – which explained why more of them were caught.
"Some of the captured snakes were poisonous, such as cobras, and officials had to exercise extra caution in handling them. We are seeking measures to handle the snakes, on a rising amount, with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration."said Kanchana.
Apart from snakes, rescue workers also called to catch other animals such as water monitors.
Snakes frequently intrude into people's houses during the rainy season.
In middle September, more than 30 snakes and 50 snakes eggs were found in a police's house in southern Thailand's Songkla.
A 5-meter-long python slithered into a home in central Thailand and swallowed a pet cat of the owner in early September.
In July, A woman on a posh housing estate is outraged that a snake came up out of her toilet and bit her on the bum in Bangkok.
Thousands of times every year the 199 hotline of the Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department rings with an urgent request to dispatch a snake wrangler.
According to a report released by the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, In 2016, the help line was rung more than 29,000 times in Bangkok alone while there has been more than 10,000 calls in the first five months in 2017.
Experts advise people to keep their home tidy and pets fenced as snakes are prone to crawl into residences where animals are being raise.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
