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Warren's Small World

Name: Warren's Small World
Address: Durban, ZA
Telephone: 0722110353
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This page is dedicated to my love of photographing and even rescuing the small misunderstood creatures that God has made, hopefully to inspiring you to go out into nature and look for the small things to enjoy.

21/10/2026

Wish I could always offer my service for free:
I was sent a very short video clip this morning at 10:50am by a lady living in rural Adam's Mission, she want3d to know what kind of snake it was, I could identify the snake as a Green Mamba.

The snake was first seen on Friday climbing up the front door burglar bars, but quickly moved off. It was seen again on Saturday sticking its head out of the corner of the brickwork above the door, this is when the video was taken, a "Google" search of the snake said it was a harmless snake. It soon disappeared and no one thought of it again until her little boy (about 4 years old) was playing on the loung floor this morning and spotted it under the couch.

Her teenage daughter grabbed her brother and closed up the house.
Now came all sorts of problems:

After contacting me, I tried contacting other snake catchers closer to her location, unfortunately none were available. Then after she was told off by someone else because she could not afford their fees, I decided to undertake the 33km drive to assist the family.
However the other problem was, living in a rural area, she has no proper address and her daughter's phone was broken and she was at work, so no location could be sent to me immediately. She had to try make her way back home from work in order to send me a pin location. She got home at 1pm and sent me the location and I was off.

Fortunately the house had been kept closed up, and it took all of 5 minutes to find and catch the little Green Mamba, leaving behind a happy and relieved mom and kids. The snake measured about 1.2 meters in length.

Thank you to ARAF BP in Edwin-swales drive for the R250 donation in fuel given to me every month which helps me do one or two calls like this for the poorer community, and also to the caller for the R300 donation. Every bit helps towards the next call.

Warren: 0722110353

13/10/2026

Imagine stepping outside your back door, you notice your hosepipe is laying right by your door, then you realise that ain't no hosepipe, its a GREEN MAMBA...!

Thats exactly what happened to a gentleman on the Bluff this morning, he phoned me in an absolute panic, he explained that he kinda knows what the Spotted Bush Snake looks like, but this was no Spotted Bush Snake. Knowing he lives close enough to the Bluff Nature Reserve for it to be something dangerous, I quickly rushed over.

Fortunately Steve kept a level head and watched the snake from a safe distance and the snake was happy to stay hidden behind a flower trough till I got there, making for an easy catch.

Beautiful but deadly animals. My favorite snakes, that colour is mesmerizing. Wish I could get my car painted that colour.

Warren: 0722110353

12/10/2026

Serving the Durban South community for 15 years, saving animals and humans, looking after the environment.
Fast, reliable, affordable.

06/10/2026

I got a call at 6:30am this morning about a large Black Mamba in an outbuilding storeroom in Chatsworth, it was accompanied by a picture from which I could positively identify it as a Black Mamba.

The snake was still on the shelf when I arrived, enabling me to get a short glimpse of it, but it soon disappeared down into the clutter, there was nothing I could do but watch it go.

Now began the search and moving stuff slowly and methodically. It took about 30 minutes before I relocated it again, right underneath the shelving which was bolted down.

This was a less than ideal scenario, being in a tight space, what now? The only thing I could do was to stick one of my snake tongs under the shelf, irritating the snake and hope it doesn't come flying out with vengeance. The snake started moving at the back of the shelving using an old sprung bed base to climb on, it was moving pretty fast in an attempt to escape me, but I manged to get tongs on it and a short struggle started, but I soon got the 2.5 meter Black Mamba under control and in my bucket.

What an adrenaline rush to start the day on, but it just goes to show once again, that snakes just want to be left alone, they have no desire to attack us humans, if they did, this one had ample opertunity.

Please feel free to watch the video taken with my GoPro, its quite riveting, dont worry I made it quite short.
Also give my video a like and follow my YouTube page.

https://youtu.be/JVwjXHaJuRA?feature=shared

God Bless
Warren: 0722110353

22/09/2026

My wife and I had just sat down to visit some friends of ours when my phone rang at 4:45pm on Sunday afternoon:

The caller explained who he was and said he has another Black Mamba for me to catch, I did not need any further information and I was off to the Havenside area of Chatsworth.
I've been involved in catching a Mamba there before and really hoped that this snake was in an easy to excess spot, because they have a huge, rather cluttered store room, which in itself is difficult to move around in. But unfortunately that hope was short lived. Not sure how it was seen, but it was seen right at the back of the storeroom where it was sitting on some doors and plywood, but of course now its MIA.

Having climbed a gauntlet to get to the doors at the back of the store room I was now a little stuck with not much space to work in.

It was impossible to move the doors and plywood very far, so I basically took one at a time and moved them to the left of me and laid them down, moved each one carefully, looking behind and nothing.
Where is this snake, is it even still there?

After scanning the area around me again, I saw a hole in a box that was on the counter top to my left, Hmmmm, looks like rats may live in there, so maybe the snake is in there too. I shone my torch in there, "Found it" I exclamed.

Now began a cat and mouse game trying to get it out of there and at the same time not startle it out of there unexpectedly.
Fortunately Black Mambas want to avoid people at all cost, so it stayed there and tried finding another way out. The boxes had basin pedestals in them, making for an ideal home for rats and now a Black Mamba.

As soon as I spotted the snake it started giving out their typical other worldly hiss, which basically tells you to back off. This did not stop till I had the snake caught.

The snake had somehow managed to move out of the basin pedestals and was now MIA again, I could I could still hear it hissing, but where was it?
I moved each pedestal onto the floor and nothing. There must only be one place its hiding, that's in the corner behind the brown door, but how to get there. I needed help to move all the other doors any plywood.

One brave gentleman agreed to assist me. As I stood watching the snakes whereabouts, he got to moving doors and plywood at one point a pile of doors fell forward onto me, almost knocking me off my feet. As he got to the last one the snake could sense its time was up and decided to make a move, ready or not it was coming past us. BUT it never came out with any intent to defend itself, it just wanted to move past to freedom. The snake had to pass me first and by God's grace I managed to grab it with my snake tongs behind the head with speed and accuracy. With that the guy helping move doors panicked and lost the plot a bit, I had no choice but to shout, asking for light so that I could see to safely grab the Mamba behind the head.
Job done.

This was definitely one of my most challenging Mamba rescues to date.
Please feel free to watch the YouTube video, the link is below. Also subscribe to my page please. Likes, comments and shares are also welcome.

The video is a bit long but thrilling, unfortunately my GoPros battery died just as I caught the snake, so that's where the video ends.

A big thank you to BP Araf fuel center on Solomon Mahlangu drive for the small fuel donation each month, this makes it possible for me to assist in a few cases where there is a dangerous snake without having to ask for a call out fee in advance.
Also thank you to the caller for the R200 donation, much appreciated.

Warren: 0722110353
https://youtu.be/x1Wwo3se6qo?si=sQIJAlsMaio6_Mbj

04/09/2026

With warmer days coming, this poster may come in handy.

Feel free to like, comment, share or even download and print it.

Knowledge is power.

Warren: 0722110353

02/09/2026

Hi friends, if you have ever used my services, please would you be so kind as to open this link and leave me a Google Review so that my service starts getting noticed on line:

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02/09/2026

Please share, I could really use the support from my community:

25/08/2026

I recieved a call from a young man in the Seaview area of Durban yesterday afternoon at around 5pm.

He explained going into his parents room and seeing a snake on the bed then leaving the room and closing the door. The description of the snake was: "its long and green with black markings", I asked, "is it thin?", "Yes was the reply."
To me that fits the description of a harmless Spotted Bush Snake.

I told the young man that it's a harmless snake, too which I was met with total disbelief, "No, its not harmless, it bit my mother two days ago and she has just come home now."

I thought, ok who am I to argue with a medical Dr, perhaps I could be wrong, let me go see if I can find the culprit.

I arrived to find the room almost completely stripped, only a mattress was left in the room, a few pairs of shoes and a built-in cupboard.

A quick search of the mattress and shoes revealed nothing. Then onto the cupboard, found nothing inside, so then it had to be underneath. There was one small gap in the corner between the wall and the built-in cupboard, knowing Bush Snakes as I do, I knew it had to be in there.

I went and got my Android endoscope out the car, a nifty little wired camera that works with a smart phone, allowing one to inspect tight spaces. I stuck the camera in the little hole that could barely fit the tip of my finger. And sure enough I saw the snake and it was a harmless Spotted Bush Snake. But naturally the family still wanted the snake gone, so I had to break out the bottom of the cupboard to get it out.

A completely harmless Spotted Bush Snake that I get bit by a few times a week. This had led to the lady spending two days in hospital.

I must say that the people's first response of getting to a hospital was commendable and the right thing to do, but the second thing they should of done (or even the Dr's at the hospital) was phone a snake expert to correctly identify the snake.

Going by how the snake was originally described to me it would sound like a Boomslang and this is probably why the patient was kept in hospital for two days to make sure no symptoms occurred. Even without seeing the snake but knowing the area and circumstances it was in, I knew it was not going to be a Boomslang.

Warren: 0722110353

17/08/2026

On Friday afternoon I was called to rescue a snake that had gotten itself into a workshop in the Shallcross area of Durban, by the description on the phone I thought it could well be something dangerous like a Mozambique Spitting Cobra or Black Mamba.

When I arrived I was shown where the snake was hiding, the home owner was keeping a good watch on the snake. From a distance and looking at it front on, I thought it was a juvenile Black Mamba, however on closer inspection it was a Short-snouted Grass Snake.

Man these little snakes are fast, it lead me quite the song and dance before I managed to finally catch it.
Only the 5th one I have ever caught in my 14 year career.

I kept it for a short photo session this morning, before releasing it back into the veld. It blends in so well to its natural grassy environment, not so much in suburbia.

Facts:
Short-snouted Grass Snake,
Length: Average about 60cm in length, but can get to just over a meter.
Food: lizards, other snakes and small rodents
Venom: mildly venomous but of no danger to humans nor pets.

Warren: 0722110353

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