“Oh honey. Stay still. There’s a roughly 2.5-meter on you.”
A woman from Australia woke up halfway through the night to find a huge carpet python wrapped around her chest— the reptile had slithered into her second-floor bedroom in Brisbane, Queensland.
Rachel Bloor stated that at first, she thought the heavy pressure on her stomach and chest was her dog lying atop her. However, when she reached under the covers, she felt a smooth object move under her hand and realized it wasn’t her pet.
“I was horrified to realize it wasn’t my dog,” Bloor .
Per the report, the 2.5-meter (about 8-foot) snake had gotten into her bedroom on Monday night.
Bloor mentioned she quickly woke her husband and told him to switch on the lights.
“He said, ‘Oh honey. Stay still. There’s a roughly 2.5-meter python on you,’” she remembered.
Bloor noted her top priority was getting the family’s dogs out of the room before the situation got worse.
“I figured if my Dalmatian noticed the snake was there, it would turn into chaos,” she stated.
Once her husband had taken the dogs out, Bloor cautiously maneuvered herself out from under the covers.
“I kind of slid out to the side,” she explained.
Instead of contacting a professional snake catcher, Bloor said she remained calm and guided the big reptile out of her bedroom through a window on her own.
“I picked him up,” she said, noting the python “didn’t appear too scared.”
“He kind of just swayed in my hand,” she remarked.
Bloor thinks the snake got in through the plantation shutters on her window and climbed onto the bed while she was asleep.
“It was so large that even when it was curled up on me, part of its tail was still sticking out of the shutter,” she said.
The snake was confirmed to be a carpet python—a non-venomous constrictor often seen in .
Even though the experience was scary, Bloor said she was glad it wasn’t a different animal.
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Snake catcher Kurt Whyte told that snake activity has gone up now that breeding season is over and eggs are starting to hatch.
“Clearly, with this warm weather, we’re spotting a lot of snakes moving around and soaking up the sun,” Whyte said.
Whyte also noted that while snake numbers haven’t necessarily grown, sightings are becoming more frequent as move into Australian bushland.
“They need to find places to live, and our backyards are providing ideal habitats,” he explained.
He cautioned that typical home features can give snakes looking for shelter easy entry.
“Sadly, the gaps in our garage doors… are ideal entry points for snakes,” Whyte stated.