This is the Friends Vista Debating Society.

I'm John Batswood, Jeremy Zakis in New South Wales.

Jeremy watches the Reptiles door for me.

So this is a polite reference to those of you who are concerned about Reptiles, especially

snakes in unusual places in your house.

Jeremy is for some time confirmed that because of all the rain in 2022 and continuing into

2023, there are a lot of mice.

And because there are a lot of mice, that means snakes are eating well and reproducing.

This is normally, if I remember correctly, a time of year where the snakes have retreated

because it's cold.

And they retreat where?

Jeremy, we have snakes in the house unusually and snakes outside unusually.

Does this continue the pattern of more snakes than usual?

I can't tell.

Does your media give us these scary snake stories because they're rare or because they're

commonplace?

Well, John is actually because they're rare and you're correct, we should be seeing snakes

in a kind of hibernation state right now.

They don't fully go into hibernation.

They do still move around in the winter in the cold or months, traditionally here in Australia.

But normally what we see is that they retreat into the bushland.

They retreat into the scrubland where they feel safe.

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