Niagara Falls resident Sam O'Shea was caught off guard when he saw his cat playing with a two-foot-long snake in his truck.
He contacted his friend Connor, who is familiar with handling snakes, and asked him to safely remove the reptile.
"As soon as I caught a glimpse of it, I realized that it wasn't a local species. So I took precaution to let it work itself out of the truck," Connor Boese told CTVNews.ca.
Boese has pythons, coral snakes, and boa constrictors of his own.
The snake is temporarily with him until a representative from the Indian River Reptile Zoo takes it to their facility today.
The snake has been identified as an African Coral Cobras, which are native to South Africa.
It is suspected that the snake is someone's pet.
Although there aren't any provincial laws banning the ownership of venomous snakes, there are municipal by-laws in Niagara that do ban them.