Over 100 snakes invade Saskatchewan home, Canada

Officials with a Saskatchewan wildlife center said workers and residents of a home invaded by snakes have captured 102 snakes in the house.

Megan Lawrence, director of rehabilitation at the Salthaven West Wildlife Rehabilitation, said the family first discovered garter snakes in the basement of their home near Regina.

"We got a call from a family that found some garter snakes in their basement, and as they investigated further they found a lot more. And then they started finding them in other areas of the house, like kitchens and bedrooms. So they decided then it wasn't a good idea to have them there anymore," Lawrence told CBC News.

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Lawrence said she and her partner cleared out 56 snakes, five pillow cases worth, and the family has since brought 46 more reptiles to the center for a total of 102 snakes.

"They were starting to end up everywhere in the house but in the basement. For the most part they were in tight spaces. Cracks in the floors, cracks in the walls, between boxes, underneath things - anywhere they could get into basically," she said.

Lawrence said the longest snake was more than 3 feet long.

"They were already starting to go into hibernation," she said. "So we just were, you know, picking up boxes and things off the floor and just found them and just caught them by hand. And then we were transporting them in buckets and pillowcases."

Lawrence said the center is accepting donations of earthworms and minnows to feed the snakes.