Snake Catcher Chatswood

Chatswood includes busy commercial areas, apartment gardens, older homes and public spaces such as Chatswood Park and Bales Park. A call-out may be in a high-use common area, so contact building management, keep pedestrian traffic away and confirm lift, loading-dock or garage access.

When calling from Chatswood, 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.

Chatswood properties may include Chatswood Park and Bales Park, apartment gardens, commercial premises, older homes, schools and car parks. These features change access and visibility, so the last known position is more useful than an uncertain species description.

Shared gardens, apartment access and busy streets make a single meeting point and one nominated contact particularly useful.

• Chatswood Park and Bales Park: Pause gardening, storage or maintenance work around Chatswood Park and Bales Park after a sighting.
• apartment gardens: Where apartment gardens is shared, ask one person to control access and another to meet Harley.
• commercial premises: Keep people and pets away from commercial premises until the sighting has been assessed.
• older homes: Identify the safest gate, path or building entrance leading toward older homes without approaching the animal.
• schools: Use schools as a landmark when explaining the last known position; do not move closer to inspect it.
• car parks: Tell Harley whether car parks 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 Chatswood Park and Bales Park.
• Ask workers, visitors and neighbours to use another entrance or area.
• Use a fixed landmark near Chatswood Park and Bales Park to describe the last known position.
• Do not spray the animal, throw objects or try to force it into the open.
• If someone may have been bitten, call Triple Zero (000) immediately and follow the operator’s instructions.

Harley Jones brings more than a decade of reptile-handling experience to Chatswood call-outs and operates under NSW General Licence MWL000102655.

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

If the snake has left Chatswood Park and Bales Park or cannot be located, capture cannot be guaranteed. Harley will explain what was checked and what should happen next. Read about Harley’s training and experience or review the Greater Sydney snake-removal process.