DEADLY DISCOVERY FOUND LURKING IN A PLIE OF SHOES

An Aussie family was shocked when they discovered a highly venomous snake hiding in a pile of shoes left outside. 

A red-bellied black snake, which was about 1.3metres, had slithered into a sandal at their home in Burnside, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, on Sunday.

Daniel Busstra, from Snake Catcher Dan, was called out to remove the reptile after the family spotted it sunbathing by the front door.

'When I got there it was hiding in the shoes,' he told Daily Mail Australia.

'Then when I tried to get it out it tried to hide from me and move back into the pile of shoes again.

'I just maneuvered the snake out of the one shoe that it was in and pulled it out of the pile.'

The family are no strangers to the reptiles and have seen many slither onto their property from the freshwater creek that runs past their house.  

Mr Busstra said snakes are 'shy creatures' who don't like to be out in the open with nowhere to hide.

He explained that inside a shoe is not the most common place you'd find a snake, but it wasn't unheard of.

'They always need to have somewhere to hide around, hide under or hide behind,' he said.

'So if you leave a pile of shoes at your front door, that's a pretty good spot for a snake to want to hide.'

Even though snakes are 'less active' during winter, Mr Busstra warned that snakes are still about.

Mr Busstra urges anyone who finds a snake on their property to keep a safe distance and call a professional. 

''If you have pets or small kids and don't like the idea of the snake being there, keep your eyes on it and call a professional snake catcher to come and handle it,' he said.

'The worst thing you can do is try and deal with it yourself.

'A large majority of the people who are bitten by snakes are either trying to catch them or kill them.' 

There has never been a recorded death from a red-bellied black snake in Australia. 

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