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one Australia Woman woke up in the middle of the night and found giant carpet python Curled up against her.
When Rachel Bloor felt a weight on her belly and chest, she thought it was her dog lying on top of her. But as she put her arms over the quilt to pet the dog, she felt something move smoothly under her fingers.
To her horror, it was a 2.5m long reptile that had crawled into her second-floor bedroom. Brisbane, Queensland.
Ms. Blore said she immediately woke her husband and told him to turn on the lights. “He said, ‘Oh baby. Don’t move. It looks like you have a 2.5m python on you,” she told the BBC.
The incident happened on Monday night.
Her first action was to tell her husband to get the dog out of the room. “I thought if my Dalmatian realized there was a snake there,” she said, “it would be a bloodbath.”
After the dog was moved out, she remained calm and carefully climbed out of the quilt. “I kind of dragged my feet out,” she said.
She remained calm and lured the snake out of the window herself without seeking professional help.
Ms Blore suspected the carpet python, a non-venomous species common in coastal Australia, squeezed through the blinds on her window and crawled onto her bed, eventually “curling up on top of her”.
“It was so big that even though it was curled up on me, part of its tail was still outside the blinds,” she said.
“I caught him, and even then, he didn’t seem overly alarmed. He was just shaking in my hand.”
Ms. Blore recalled that she was not frightened by the snake and was relieved that it was not a toad. “Toads scare me,” she said.
Snake catcher Kurt Whyte said snake activity has increased as the breeding season ends and eggs begin to hatch. “Obviously with this hot weather we’re seeing a lot of people out in the sun,” he told ABC News.
Mr White said snake numbers had not increased but sightings were becoming more frequent as bushland gave way to new housing developments. “They have to find a place to live, and our backyards provide the perfect habitat,” he said.
“Unfortunately, the gap in our garage door…provides the perfect entry point for snakes.”