An Indian villager, Laxman Mohapatra, had kept a few albino mice as pets in a crate in his home near Puri in eastern India. <br /><br />On April 28, he heard a strange noise coming from the crate. When he inspected he was terrified to find a huge cobra inside and three of his albino mice missing. <br /><br />He called Snake Helpline for help, which sent a volunteer Sushant Behera to help him. <br /><br />When Sushant reached the spot he found that the snake had killed all the mice.<br /><br />It was a scary sight to see the cobra hunting the mice which kept running towards it oblivious to the danger they were in. <br /><br />Though the cobra was very aggressive initially, it started getting stressed as it sensed the presence of humans near the crate and regurgitated all the mice it had eaten. <br /><br />Sushant rescued the deadly snake with a stick, put it inside a bag and released it later at a natural habitat far away from the village.<br /><br />Founder of Snake Helpline Subhendu Mallik said: "People keep pets rodents and birds in cages without realising that they may attract snakes. They should ensure the cages are snake proof." <br /><br />On the strange behaviour of the mice running towards the snake, Subhendu said: ''The albino mice were reared in captivity. So they failed to realise the danger they were in. A wild rat would have fled to save its life.''
