The reptile found on the cat, an eastern brown snake, is Australia's deadliest snake Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal rescue ...

We all know what it's like to receive an unwanted Christmas gift. But instead of ugly socks and itchy jumpers, one family in Hampton, in Australia's Queensland state, received a much deadlier surprise ...

The cat owner didn't notice the eastern brown snake on his living room floor at first and almost stepped on it Kristian Bell/Getty A man stepped inside his South Australia home and almost stepped ...

This unbelievable photo of an “Amazon snake cat” is just that — unbelievable. A photo of the so-called “Serpens Catus,” a feline with black and neon-yellow stripes resembling a snake, went viral ...

A cat got a little more than she bargained for after coming across what she must have assumed was a dead snake in her owner's garden. In a video posted to TikTok under the handle toootyfruityjudy, the ...