This is the moment a snake catcher in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu removed a massive cobra from a residential house.<br /><br />Footage filmed on July 24 in Cuddalore shows Selvam, the snake handler carefully picking up the dangerous reptile with his bare hands and then coaxing it into a plastic bottle. <br /><br />Swathy Reddy, the filmer, told Newsflare: "It was three feet long and initially immobile as it swallowed a big rat.<br /><br />"Afraid or angry snake bit the handler but luckily as he was wearing shoes, so the poison didn't penetrate to his body."<br /><br />The highly venomous snake was later released deep in a nearby woodland area.
