{"id":266266,"date":"2025-11-02T04:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T04:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/266266\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T04:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T04:36:12","slug":"watch-venomous-snake-rescued-from-backyard-swimming-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/266266\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Venomous snake rescued from backyard swimming pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 31 (UPI) &#8212; A pair of reptile wranglers in Australia came to the rescue of a yellow-tailed whip snake that found its way into a resident&#8217;s backyard swimming pool and was unable to slither out.<\/p>\n<p>Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24\/7 said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1131279335784662\/?__cft__[0]=AZWYvooi5I2uKhVDLjfsz_I-9MvFRfB9xPo206IVfNzrcXqPeBOSQ9kiYUN0AAiKRtNuWUgcEumQOMU01GWS3rNg9hX-kecMBbXyYH_wbMubT0eiwfg8UOQgmNQnA5dBkKGpN-AWG9EW8GperHnxe2lElqaETH93_yLTLwfSihSRCxy8Xw9UZpB_AiCY1b8Cd18GJKLCzi-M-O9KRRgAz9q1&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on social media<\/a> that Stuart McKenzie and another rescuer, named Howdy, responded to a Coolum property where a snake was spotted in a pool.\n<\/p>\n<p>Residents were concerned the serpent may have been a highly venomous eastern brown snake, but it was identified as a yellow-faced whip snake, a mildly-venomous species often confused for eastern browns.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie fished the snake out of the water with his bare hands and the swimming serpent was returned to the wild.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 31 (UPI) &#8212; A pair of reptile wranglers in Australia came to the rescue of a yellow-tailed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,2699,2697,79,2698,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-266266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-odd","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-weird","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}