{"id":473766,"date":"2026-02-11T22:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/473766\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:33:14","slug":"tiger-snake-found-hiding-inside-childs-car-seat-in-tranmere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/473766\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger snake found hiding inside child\u2019s car seat in Tranmere"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not unusual to find a lost toy in a child\u2019s car seat, but for one Tranmere family, the discovery was far more sinister \u2013 a deadly tiger snake inside their car seat.<\/p>\n

Sandford\u2019s Craig Budd volunteers with Reptile Rescue and received the unusual callout to Oceana Drive just before 8pm on Tuesday after the family spotted the snake make its way into a car seat sitting on their garage floor.<\/p>\n

Budd found the venomous tiger snake neatly tucked away under a velcro flap at the front of the seat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they [the family] were pretty freaked out about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Craig Budd from Reptile Rescue safely removed the venomous snake<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d looked all around the car seat, couldn\u2019t see anything at all. Basically turned it over and then lifted up this flap and there\u2019s a snake nice and neatly tucked away.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said this was a first for him in his 11 years of volunteering as a snake handler.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Tranmere family were \u2018pretty freaked out\u2019 by the discovery<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had them in bedrooms, in cupboards, in cars, under cars, had them in all sorts of things, had them in buckets, in bins and you name it, this was the first in a car seat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tiger snakes are the fourth most venomous snake species in the world. Tasmania has three venomous snake species \u2013 all ranking in the world\u2019s top 10 most deadly.<\/p>\n

Budd used specialised equipment to safely remove and relocate the snake.<\/p>\n

He said this summer had been quieter than last year\u2019s \u201cflat out\u201d season, with cooler weather keeping snakes less active.<\/p>\n

\"\"Tiger snakes are the fourth most venomous snake species in the world. Image \/ Australian Reptile Park (File)<\/p>\n

Budd warned people never to attempt killing or relocating snakes themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re ten times more likely to get bitten trying to kill it or relocate it yourself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Reptile Rescue operates on donations to cover fuel costs for volunteers. He encouraged anyone to help out with donations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know any tradesman that would go out at eight o\u2019clock of a night and travel that far for $80 to cover their fuel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not unusual to find a lost toy in a child\u2019s car seat, but for one Tranmere family,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-473766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}