A video clip shared by 9News on YouTube shows a seven-foot-long Vietnamese blue beauty rat snake coiled up and hiding under the cushion of a couch at a home in California.

In another clip shared on Facebook, expert snake handler and owner of So-Cal Rattlesnake Removal, Alex Tejo, who was called for help,  is seen holding the snake by its tail.

“Okay, I don’t even know what to do right now. So, someone called me to remove the snake,” Tejo is heard saying in the video. Tejo’s expertise is very much in evidence as he nimbly evades the snake’s attempt to get at him.

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