A Northern Territory man who found a crocodile in his laundry suspects the reptile could have been inside his home for about two weeks.
Vince Nathan was woken up by the sound of his dogs Boff and Bluey barking at 1.30am yesterday and got up out of bed to look around his house.
“As I came around the corner, I nearly stood on him, he was sitting there,” Nathan told 9News Darwin.
“He opened his mouth and hissed at me. I took off.”
Vince ran back inside for immediate back up from his wife Raylene.
“I call my wife and said ‘Ray, come look, come look, there’s a croc here, mate’,” he said.
He tried to call the local snake catcher but was not expecting him to pick up at 1.30am.
“When you call them it goes to voicemail it usually goes ‘if there is a buffalo in the area or a dangerous dog please leave a message’ and I’ll get back to you,” he said.
“I’m going, ‘Well, it’s sort of a dangerous dog’.”
It is still unknown how the adventurous croc ventured into their laundry.
“Ray had been going there the last two weeks everyday doing washing and not even half a metre away this croc was under the table,” Nathan said.
Watch your fingers – can you spot the snake in the box?
“We’re not near any water to the west of us, we’ve got a beach which is five kilometres away and we’ve got a creek that goes up there called crocodile creek.
“He would’ve walked a good two to three kilometres plus to get to us.”
The reptile is one metre in length but saltwater crocodiles can reach up to six metres.
