Snake in the yard?
Leave it alone and keep people and pets away. Wyndham says to contact DEECA for a list of licensed snake controllers. Don't try to catch or kill it. If someone's bitten, call 000. Apply a pressure bandage, keep them still and don't wash the bite.
What's particular to Hoppers Crossing
Wyndham's snake service changed
From 1 September 2025, Wyndham City stopped its snake service for private properties. It still deals with snakes on council land, such as parks, reserves and nature strips. Pest businesses aren't snake catchers, so we don't take those jobs.
Water brings tiger snakes
Wyndham lists the Tiger Snake, Eastern Brown Snake and Little Whip Snake as the most common here, and says tiger snakes favour water and vegetated areas such as creeks, wetlands and native bush.
Skeleton Creek
Wyndham's interpretive trail follows the creek from behind Sanctuary Lakes up to Truganina, with signs on native species such as the Growling Grass Frog. If your street is near the creek, expect wildlife as well as pests.
A big council area
Wyndham covers 542km2 on Melbourne's western edge, with 27.4km of coastline. Hoppers Crossing is one locality in all that, so give us your postcode, not just the council.
Rodent control
Rats and mice follow food, water and shelter. CSIRO says cooler weather sends mice looking for somewhere indoors, so the scratching often starts around autumn. Look for droppings, gnawed packets and greasy marks along walls.
A pest controller will want to see the roof space, the garage and the back fence. Ask what they'd seal, where any bait stations (locked boxes for rodent bait) would go, and whether a follow-up is included. Our Melbourne rodent page goes further.
Possums over the bedroom
Most people searching for possum removal want the noise gone. In Victoria, that means sealing the way in after the possum has left, and any catch and release staying on your property, no further than 50 metres, after sunset. Ringtails can't be trapped without a permit. The Melbourne possum page covers the rest.
Your side of the fence
You can
- Keep grass short and clear wood piles and rubbish from the yard.
- Seal gaps under doors and around sheds.
- Store pet food in sealed tubs, and take bins out on time.
Leave to a pest business
- Wasp nests, in the ground or in a wall.
- Finding how rodents are getting in.
- Roof proofing for possums.
Where we'd start with pests in Hoppers Crossing
Work out what you're dealing with first. If it's a snake, that's DEECA's list. If it's anything scratching, nesting or crawling, tap what you've found and your postcode.
Want someone to look at it?
Tell us what you've seen and your postcode, and a local pest business that handles exactly that calls you to talk it through.
