A couple of posts on our community message board caught my eye today:

#1 : On 21/11/11 neighbour one wrote:

Hi all,

My brother who lives in PM (a neighbouring community) saw a huge snake in his living room y’day. Apparently, there are snake catchers in the area who come and take the snakes away without killing them. Am forwarding the phone nos. below, just fyi. Hope we never have to use them 🙂
Here are the numbers:

Closest one:
Mahesh in Varthur:
09916 968 959
09845 714 598

Poorthi: (Old Airport Road)
09844530033

Sanjeev (Bannerghatta)
097 42084335

Mohan (Bhanasvadi)
098 45 080903

The attached video shows how a professional Bangalore snake catcher does his job. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du3CHIi6QFY

Ciao, neighbour one

Then the second, which followed pretty quickly and made my eyes bug out a little lot .

#2 : On 21/11/11 neighbour two wrote:

Thanks for sharing the info.

In Ozone (our community), you can also call Prestige help desk. Ozone has one gardener who catches snakes. He caught a cobra from our side yard few months back, with a stick, did not kill it. Also, in the help desk office, the snake catchers numbers are printed and put up, so if we can’t find the numbers handy, they can tell us the numbers 🙂

-Neighbour two

I am good with the geckos, spiders, frogs, bees, and other small mostly harmless creatures. No one warned me about the frigging COBRAS in the yard and possibly house!!