Australia: Hissing Cat Alerts Homeowner to Nighttime Visitor (Video)

“This was in my friend’s fridge yesterday,” Gillian Fennell wrote in the post. “No idea how it ended up in the ice dispenser. Her cat was hissing at the fridge in the dark so she turned the light on & saw this.”

This was in my friend’s fridge yesterday.
To make it worse her son was bitten by a venomous snake when he was just 6 years old so this was extremely traumatic for her. pic.twitter.com/uGHNnlACP3

— Gillian Fennell (@stationmum101) January 11, 2024

A cat is credited with alerting an Australian woman to a venomous snake that was hiding in the last place you’d expect — the refrigerator’s ice dispenser.

The large snake was seen squirting from the dispenser like soft-serve ice cream in the Jan. 10 video from the Adelaide Hills area of South Australia.

The reptile was identified as a venomous red-bellied black snake by Nine Network in Australia. The species grows to 6.5 feet in length and typically tries to avoid humans but will latch on “and chew savagely” when cornered, experts say.

Commenters on social media called the incident the “stuff of nightmares” and “wildly terrifying.”

It’s likely the snake got into the dispenser the same way it was coming out, but one person suggested it might have been hiding among groceries stored earlier in the fridge.

“When your fridge starts dispensing snakes, it’s time to get out of Dodge!” one commenter wrote.

“My fridge doesn’t have a snake dispenser. I’m mildly envious,” another said.

SOURCE: https://www.aol.com/news/venomous-snake-comes-slithering-fridge-180322858.html