Family members of one Nirakar Mohapatra of Bagadia village under Chhendipada block in Angul district were panic-stricken on Thursday evening when they found a five-feet snake stuck in a damaged mixer jar in the house.
Mohapatra called up the Snake Helpline, amember of which, Himanshu Dehury, reached the spot and identified the reptile as an Indian Rat Snake.
The reptile had major injuries in its stomach.Snake-catcher Dehury called Snake Helpline secretary Subhendu Mallick for advice and later managed to rescue the snake safely by cutting the jar. Since no veterinary hospital was open in the night, Dehury provided preliminary treatment to the snake. On Friday morning, snake was taken to a nearby veterinary hospital and later to the Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry of OUAT in Bhubaneswar for treatment.