CANBERRA: When an Australian woman woke up from her sleep in the middle of the night with a weight on her body, she thought it was one of her pet dogs. To her shock, it was a 2.5m python.
Brisbane resident Rachel Bloor said she initially thought it was her labradoodle when she felt a heavy weight on her chest and stomach on the night of Jan 12.
Half asleep, she reached out for it. But, instead of feeling a dog’s soft coat, she touched a smooth and slithering object.
She quickly woke her husband who then turned on the lights.
Her husband said: “Babe, don’t move. There’s about a 2.5m carpet python on top of you.”
Bloor’s first reaction was cussing, British broadcaster BBC reported, followed by worries about her dogs, who were in the bedroom with the couple.
She wanted her two dogs to be as far away from the snake as possible, in case they tried to attack the reptile.
Her husband, who was not named by the media, took the pets out of the room.
“It was me (who) was left in there to deal with (the snake),” Bloor told Australian broadcaster ABC.
She slowly crawled out from under the bedcovers, all the while keeping an eye on the python.
“In my mind, (I was) going, ‘Is this really happening? This is so bizarre’,” she told the BBC.
Once out of bed, she guided the snake out the window.
Bloor believed the carpet python – which is non-venomous – had squeezed itself through the shutters on her window and onto her bed, which is located just below the window.
It’s a good thing that the uninvited guest was a snake and not toads.
“Toads freak me out,” she said.
Carpet pythons are native to Australia, and are found in diverse environments, from rainforests to urban backyards. - The Straits Times/ANN
