A video posted on YouTube by Laura Neff and her husband, who live in north Carolina, says they were having a “run of the mill Sunday afternoon” when they heard a noise coming from the kitchen.
Investigating, they found a four foot long rat snake descending from the spice cabinet, attempting to get its jaws around an egg bigger than its own head.
Neff told the Washington Post in an email: “I was VERY shocked to see the [four-foot] black rat snake descending toward the basket of eggs!”
“We knew immediately that it was non-venomous and a ‘safe’ snake, so we weren’t concerned for our wellbeing physically,” she added, “which helped a great deal in being able to watch it, be in a bit of awe and curiosity.”
Rat snakes are fairly common to north Carolina and are thought of as beneficial due to their “penchant for eating rodents and (OUTSIDE) EGGS,” Neff wrote in the YouTube description of the video.
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