A woman’s story has gone viral after her doorbell camera caught 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 has included Kermit the Frog for the past three years.
“I never considered myself a frog person until Kermit came along,” she said News week. “He’s just family. All my friends and family know about Kermit and how obsessed I’ve become over the years!”
When Lowdon recently stepped out onto her porch to answer a phone call and saw Kermit being attacked by a snake, “the mama bear in me came out.”
A video shared on her account @katie.lowdon on August 26 shows the moment Lowdon realized a snake was trying to eat Kermit — and she reacted immediately, gasping, screaming and, of course, cursing.
“No! No! God, I’m going to kill you,” she screams as the camera shows her stomping on something on the porch. “There, I got it. Oh, that was close.”
Then she tells her father on the other end of the line: “There was a snake on my porch that ate my frog, Dad!”
TikTok @katie.lowdon
She looked out onto the porch to make sure the snake was gone, then urged Kermit, “Go away, buddy,” assuring him that he was safe now. Then she declared, “I’d kill any snake for my frog buddy.”
She explained Newsweek it was a “knee-jerk reaction,” and although she was shocked because she had never seen a snake in her yard before, “I remember thinking I couldn’t let the snake kill Kermit. That just wasn’t an option.”
Since 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.”
Luckily, the snake ran off immediately, so she could focus on getting Kermit to safety. After sitting on the porch “dazed,” he climbed up, “away from all the snakes.”
Meanwhile, her father heard the commotion on the other end of the line and “didn’t know what was going on.”
“When I told him that a snake tried to eat my frog, he laughed but was not surprised by my antics,” said entrepreneur Lowdon.
TikTok users were also highly amused by the video, which garnered 138,000 likes and nearly 750,000 views in just three days. One commented simply: “A mother’s love.”
Another commented: “How scared your father must have been for you in the first 15 seconds until you explained to him the story of the snake and the frog.”
And one person put it this way: “I bet the frog thought this was literally divine intervention.”
TikTok @katie.lowdon
Several species of snakes are found in Washington State, including three species of garter snakes: the common garter snake, the western land garter snake, and the northwestern garter snake.
Most of the snakes found in Washington are harmless to humans. Only one species – the western rattlesnake – can inflict a venomous bite, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Lowdon, who developed the Oopsie Poopsie Pack to help dog owners pick up and carry away their dog’s poop, was overwhelmed by the tremendous response to her video and is delighted that “so many people are now as involved in Kermit’s life as I am.”
“What I didn’t expect was all the reactions from people talking about their own animals on the porch. I think that’s so great! I didn’t realize that it would be so exciting for so many people to have little friends on their porch that they love like family.”
Kermit has been doing well since his snake scare – and when he returned to the porch the next day, “he brought two friends with him.”
Lowdon put it this way: “I would like to have a whole frog village in my little front yard.”
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