“What a legend”: Brave Aussie pensioner saves puppy from a snake
An Aussie pensioner has gone the extra mile to save her terrified puppy from a carpet snake.
Anne Murphy, a woman from NSW’s Lennox Head, captured the moment her 80-year-old mother went toe-to-toe with the slippery intruder who was terrorising her dog and shared the interaction on a Facebook page called Australian Country Memes.
According to Anne, her mother bolted out the door one Monday evening when she heard her dog “screaming”, when she was confronted with the carpet snake.
The non-venomous snake had wrapped around the small dog and bitten it on the chin, when the 80-year-old intervened.
The woman was “bitten three times” by the snake, before she “caught the snake so it could be taken out to the bush and hopefully not make its way back to her place”.
She then took her puppy to the vet, and got home three hours after the incident first happened.
The post has since received over 2,000 likes and hundreds comments, hailing the 80-year-old as a “legend“, “gutsy” and a “wonderful woman.”
“She is a true blue here. My hat is off to you, amazing lady,” one person wrote.
Another added, “Way to go! That’s just what country people do. God love her, they don’t make them like that anymore.”
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