SEARCH FOR CRATE-THE DEADLY SNAKE SPECIES CONTINUES IN HOUSE(PART II)

Recap:A snake entered my house and the search was on and the snake was hiding.The part I of the post can be assessed at following link
http://indian-share-tips.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-rendezvous-with-snake-crate-species.html
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PART II
1.I simultaneously tried to get the snake catcher GURU who is an avid wild life expert having caught 1.5 lakh snakes found in the houses.

2.Finally call was picked by GURU and he consented to visit the house in an hour's time.

3.Meanwhile I recreated the scene of his seeing the snake and last location where the snake was seen.As per his account I closely inspected the last snake seen point and close inspecton showed a small hole in the corner behind the door.

4.I felt snake may be hiding in the hole and checked the depth of hole with an iron sleek rod which went inside pretty long distance.I got first of all hot water poured in the hole but no response and thus finally poured kerosene in the hole and lit it with fire.However both tricks did not yield any result.This hole was adjacent to the wall which was tiled.My inner voice said that it appears that the snake may have had gone through the hole behind the tiles of the wall.

5.I ordered to my servant to break the tiles with the hammer and also made him available an axe for making his task easier.

6.The tiles of the half wall of the kitchen were being broken and I gave "commendation" to the guys of the contractor who had fixed the tiles with minimum cement by just putting cement lump in the centre of the tile and fixing it on the wall.My faith was confirmed as due to non fixing of tiles in a flat manner with complete cement,it was giving complete free space to the snake to move under it and if required coil around the lump of cement in the centre of the tile.

7.Half the wall tiles were broken and suddenly the tail of this deadly snake which was from the family of "CRATE" was visible.The student snake catcher held the tail of the snake and meanwhile bell rang announcing the arrival of the GURU and he took over the task of taking out deadly poisnous snake from behind the tiles.

8.I gave him a bottle to place the snake in the bottle and snake refused to go into it and finally it was decided to put him in a poly bag.

9.The GURU made a few holes in the polythene with the snake with his mouth to ensure the circulation of air to this species and tucked polybag with snake duly knotted behind his shirt i.e in close contact with his chest.The dextreity of GURU was seen in his method of handling the snake.The word spread like wild fire and people flocked to see the snake and started taking the autograph of the GURU.

10.Finally the ordeal was over and maid got into the job of cleaning the house of all the clutter.

11.We also heaved a sigh of relief that the snake was found and had it not been found we would have had got Cervical Spondiolysis due tot the fear of snake and constant looking down to ensure non proximity of the reptile.

12.The GURU told that the snake was 10 times more poisnous than the Cobra and may have had not given a chance to even reach hospital.He gave remarkable tips for ensu
ring actions so that the snake do not enter the house and ofcourse the method to identify if the snake is poisnous or not.

13.So enough for today and I continue with the tips received from the AVID GURU(wild life expert associated with National Geographic channel)tommorow.So keep visiting and be informed as it is the first step to ward off the threat from these reptiles.(TO BE CONTINUED....).