Which one of you left your Crocs out on the back porch?

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How often do you check your shoes for snakes before you put them on? The answer is probably not often enough.

Jeffrey Tucker, from Baton Rouge in Louisiana, can attest to this first hand, after almost stepping on a venomous cottonmouth curled up in his crocs on May 11.

"My shoes were on the back patio," Tucker told Newsweek. "I went to put in my foot and he stuck his head out for a second."


The cottonmouth was only a baby, stretching to only about a foot long. However, juvenile snakes can still be dangerous.

"I was startled by seeing what was in there," Tucker said. "We usually have frogs from time to time but never a snake."

Cottonmouth snakes—also called water moccasins—are a venomous species found throughout the southeastern U.S. "In Louisiana, Cottonmouths range across the entire state from top to the bottom tip," Kevin Hood, from Louisiana Snake ID, told Newsweek.

Tucker said that is was very common to see cottonmouths around his area.

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