Horrifying video footage shows the moment that a dad was left horrified when he found a rattlesnake in his baby’s stroller.
Tyler Maidlow, from near Nashville, Tennessee, had taken his nine-month-old daughter for a walk when he made the nightmarish discovery.
After the stroll with Ava Grace, Tyler looked in the stroller and found the snake coiled up inside. It then struck at him while he walked by.
While the baby was thankfully not in the stroller at the time, Tyler and Autumn Maidlow watched as the snake squirmed around.
Speaking to FOX 17, Autumn said: “My husband went for a walk with our baby in the wagon and left the garage open.
“He walked past the wagon, and when he walked back in, he noticed the snake on the ledge of the wagon, and right when he looked at it, it struck at him, and he jumped back and hit my car.”
Tyler, frightened by the encounter, ended up killing the copperhead with a shovel.
Copperheads, one of four venomous snakes in Tennessee, have very distinctive brown hourglass-shaped crossbands and are usually light brown or grey.
Luckily for Tyler and Autumn, the venom within copperhead pit vipers is not very potent and fatalities rarely occur from bites, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
However, copperheads are responsible for the most about of bites given by a snake throughout the entire US.
Earlier this month, a homeowner panicked and called Rattlesnake Solutions after he found twenty snakes lurking in his garage.
Marissa Maki, a snake wrangler for Rattlesnake Solutions, spotted the nest of reptiles coiled around the base of the man’s hot water heater.
“That is a lot of snakes,” Maki said in a video. “I’m not going to lie. This is crazy.”
Maki was forced to use two buckets to dispose of the pack of snakes, as “I just don’t want the adults to start striking”.
She used tongs to pick up each snake before dropping them into large plastic buckets and relocating them to a natural habitat in a desert area.
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