Woman Finds Snake Eating Animal on Her Porch, so She Leaps Into Action

A woman has gone viral after her doorbell camera captured her beating up a snake—to save the little frog that lives on her porch.

Katie Lowdon, 31, lives in Washington with her family, which, for the last three years, has included Kermit the frog.

“I would never have considered myself a frog person until Kermit showed up,” she told Newsweek. “He is absolutely part of the family. All my friends and family know about Kermit and how obsessed I’ve become over the years!”

So when Lowdon recently stepped out on her porch to take a phonecall, and saw Kermit being attacked by a snake, “the mama bear in me came out”.

A video shared to her account @katie.lowdon on August 26 showed the moment Lowdon realized a snake was attempting to eat Kermit—and she reacted immediately, gasping and screaming, and, naturally, swearing.

“No! No! God, I’m going to kill you,” she shouts, as the camera picks her up stomping on something on the porch. “There, I got it. Oh, that was close.”

She then tells her father, on the other side of the phone: “There was a snake on my porch eating my frog, dad!”

Looking over her porch to make sure the snake was gone, she then urged Kermit to “get away, buddy,” and assured him he was now safe, before declaring: “I would kill any snake for my frog buddy.”

She explained to Newsweek it was a “reflex reaction,” and while she was shocked, having never seen a snake in her yard before, “I remember thinking I couldn’t let the snake kill Kermit. It just wasn’t an option.”

As Kermit was in the snake’s mouth, she couldn’t step on its head, “so I stomped on the snake’s tail, and luckily, the snake dropped Kermit immediately.”

Thankfully, the snake bolted right away, so her focus went on getting Kermit to safety. After sitting “dazed” on the porch, he then climbed up high, “away from any snakes.”

Her father, meanwhile, was hearing the commotion on the other side of the phone, and “didn’t know what was happening.”

“Once I told him that a snake was trying to eat my frog, he laughed, but wasn’t surprised by my antics,” entrepreneur Lowdon said.

TikTok users were also highly amused by the video, which in just three days boasts 138,000 likes and nearly 750,000 views, where one commented simply: “A mother’s love.”

Another pointed out: “The fear your father must have felt for you for the first 15 seconds until you brought him up to speed about the snake and frog.”

And as one put it, “I bet that frog thought that was literally divine intervention.”

Several snake species can be found in Washington State, including three species of garter snake: the common garter snake, the western terrestrial garter snake, and the northwestern garter snake.

Most of the snakes found in Washington are not dangerous to humans, with only one—the western rattlesnake—capable of inflicting a venomous bite, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Lowdon, who created Oopsie Poopsie Pack which helps dog owners pick up and carry their dog’s dirt easier, couldn’t get over the massive reaction to her video, and loves that “so many people are now as invited in Kermit’s life as I am.”

“What I didn’t expect were all the responses from people talking about their own porch critters. I think that is so neat! I didn’t realize how many people would resonate with having little buddies living on their porches, whom they love like family, too.”

As for Kermit, he is doing well since his snake scare—and when he returned to the porch the next day, he “brought two friends with him”.

As Lowdon put it: “I’d love to have a whole frog village in my small front yard.”

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