Are you afraid of snakes? Maybe the next story will make you see snakes in a different way or… maybe not. This story happened in Australia, where a woman found in the middle of the road something she thought to be a log, but… it was a snake, a huge one!
You might be speechless of how this woman acted and the way she now sees these cute animals.
Australia, the place of small animals
One day, Kat Finnerty, who is a Canadian writer, was visiting Australia and she couldn’t believe what she had to experience…
Australia is known for its kangaroos, koalas and crocodiles, but they also have snakes! Let me tell you they are not small. Now and then, Australians have to deal with the appearance of animals in their areas. They are so used to going for a walk and suddenly a terrifying animal appears, that a snake in the middle of the road is nothing for them.
Kat found a log! Oh, wait…
Kat was driving into a tropical forest and it was very dark at night, she could just see what her car’s lights illuminated. At some point, she had to stop because she found a log in the middle of the road. However, while she was there thinking about what to do, she looked closer and she found it was a snake!
What a snake!
You might think what Kat found was a regular one, it was a 20 feet long snake! That’s like half a school bus… how terrifying!
What Kat found was a special snake, the Australian Scrub Python. This is one of the longest snakes in Australia and… one of the biggest in the world! It can reach around 26 feet long.
The way this species attacks is by strangling its prey until it cannot breathe. I mean, this snake doesn’t have any venom, but I’m not sure about not being afraid of the way it attacks.
I am in danger if I encounter one?
They won’t attack humans if humans don’t bother them. What they are interested in is eating rats, birds or wallabies – a small kangaroo-like animal.
Once they use their attack strategy, they open their mouths as much as the prey measures. They just swallow the whole prey without cutting it into pieces. You could see the shape of the prey inside the snake from the outside… How gross!
Kat’s reaction
At first, she was worried about the animal’s well-being since it could be run over by a car. So, she stayed inside her car just waiting, but… she was with a friend who touched the snake, which was afraid of her friend. That’s why the animal started to act in a defensive way showing it was a threat to these humans.
Hopefully, nothing worrying happened and the snake kept going its way as if nothing had happened.
Learning from bad experiences
Kat was afraid of snakes, as most of the human population is, but this changed after this encounter. She says she now feels so much respect for these species, she might have felt some kind of connection.
Also, she lives with a new life’s motto: live with no fear. Even though Kat didn’t know anything about the animal, she just followed her instincts. This can be used in many aspects of our lives because everybody at some point experience a negative situation that might become a trauma or something similar, so this life’s motto could be helpful in these cases.
Don’t be afraid of experiencing negative situations since they could lead us to new places. Sometimes, the most terrifying things are the ones that teach us something useful.