Snake Catcher Menai

Menai’s residential streets are interwoven with bush corridors. Keep children and pets indoors and report whether the snake moved toward a reserve, wall or pool area.

When calling from Menai, explain whether the animal is indoors or outside, whether it remains visible, and whether children, pets, customers, livestock or workers are nearby. Harley can then assess the immediate risk and the safest access.

Around Menai, bushland reserves, Georges River and Woronora influence, family homes, retaining walls, pool areas and schools can create several possible routes and shelter points. Leave those places undisturbed after the snake moves out of sight.

Bushland corridors and sloping gardens make distance especially important; never follow a snake through a rear boundary or reserve.

• bushland reserves: Pause gardening, storage or maintenance work around bushland reserves after a sighting.
• Georges River and Woronora influence: Where Georges River and Woronora influence is shared, ask one person to control access and another to meet Harley.
• family homes: Keep people and pets away from family homes until the sighting has been assessed.
• retaining walls: Identify the safest gate, path or building entrance leading toward retaining walls without approaching the animal.
• pool areas: Use pool areas as a landmark when explaining the last known position; do not move closer to inspect it.
• schools: Tell Harley whether schools is open, enclosed, elevated or difficult to access from the street.

A sighting does not establish that there is a nest or more than one snake. Avoid assumptions about species, numbers or where the animal has gone; preserve the last reliable observation instead.

• Avoid approaching from either side, particularly around bushland reserves.
• Ask workers, visitors and neighbours to use another entrance or area.
• Use a fixed landmark near bushland reserves to describe the last known position.
• Never touch, trap, corner, poke or attempt to kill the snake.
• If someone may have been bitten, call Triple Zero (000) immediately and follow the operator’s instructions.

A professional Menai response requires calm scene control, appropriate equipment and lawful handling; Harley operates under NSW General Licence MWL000102655.

He assesses access around bushland reserves, keeps other people outside the working area and completes humane relocation when capture is possible.

When no snake can be found, Harley will not pretend the site is certain to be clear. He will identify the remaining uncertainty and provide practical next steps. Read about Harley’s training and experience or review the Greater Sydney snake-removal process.