A Texas snake remover who was responding to a call about a “few” snakes under a home found a startling 45 rattlesnakes beneath the house.

Big Country Snake Removal responded to a home in Albany, Texas, after a man who was trying to restore his cable climbed under the house and saw some snakes.

“He saw a ‘few’ snakes and quickly crawled out,” said a post on Big Country Snake Removal’s Facebook page.

“We arrived around lunchtime and as soon as I crawled under I could immediately see that there was far more than a ‘few,'” the post said. The company ended up removing 45 rattlesnakes from beneath the house.

The post said the house and yard were clean, and the owners said they don’t often encounter rattlesnakes.

“Rattlesnakes don’t care how nice your house is or what kind car you drive — they care simply about survival,” the post said.

Rattlesnakes’ venom is extremely potent, but rarely fatal to humans especially if the bite is quickly treated.

 

Texas homeowners thought there were a few snakes under their home, but a snake removal company soon recorded video of their hours-long work to remove 45 rattlesnakes from under the house.

The video was shot near Abilene, Texas, on March 13, Nathan Hawkins — owner of Big Country Snake Removal  — told USA TODAY in a series of Facebook messages on Tuesday.

The company posted the nearly 18-minute long video to Facebook on Sunday, and it has been viewed more than 300,000 times there. It shows Hawkins and a partner working to remove snake after snake from a cramped space under the home.

The company’s Facebook post says the owner discovered a “few” snakes while attempting to fix a TV or cable issue under the home. When Big Country Snake Removal arrived, they found a well-kept yard and a neat house.

The company warned that many homeowners “don’t think it can happen to them.” But “rattlesnakes don’t care how nice your house is or what kind car you drive- they care simply about survival.”

The video shows Hawkins using an extended tool to pick up the snakes. As he does, the reptiles react — sometimes using their rattles, sometimes slithering away, sometimes showing their fangs.

While the video has gained media attention, Hawkins said in a written message that the company regularly deals with similar situations: “This is nothing. We do this all the time.”

The largest snake removed from the premises was 5 1/2 feet long, according to Hawkins.

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