“Oh honey. Don’t move. There’s an eight foot python on you.”
An Australian woman woke up in the middle of the night to discover a huge carpet python wrapped across her chest after the snake sneaked into her second-floor bedroom in Brisbane, Queensland.
Rachel Bloor said she initially believed the heavy weight on her stomach and chest was the result of her dog being on top of her. But when she reached under the covers, she felt something moving smoothly under her hand and realized it wasn’t her pet.
“To my horror, I realized it wasn’t my dog,” Bloor said told the BBC.
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Although carpet pythons are not poisonous, they can be fatal to their prey due to constrictions. (WTVT)
According to the report, the 8-foot snake entered her bedroom Monday evening.
Bloor said she immediately woke her husband and asked him to turn on the light.
“He says, ‘Oh honey. Don’t move. There’s an eight-foot python on you,'” she recalls.
Her first concern, Bloor said, was to get the family’s dogs out of the room before anything escalated.
“I thought if my Dalmatian realized there was a snake there, it would be a bloodbath,” she said.
After her husband removed the dogs, Bloor carefully pushed her way out from under the covers.
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Rachel Bloor calmly handled the nearly 8-foot-long carpet python herself rather than calling a professional at this point. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
“I kind of shuffled out,” she said.
Instead of calling a professional snake catcher, Bloor said she stayed calm and led the large reptile out of the bedroom through a window herself.
“I grabbed it,” she said, adding that the python “didn’t seem overly startled.”
“It kind of wobbled in my hand,” she said.
Bloor suspects the snake entered through plantation shutters on her window and crawled onto the bed while she slept.
“It was so big that even though it was curled up on me, part of its tail was still sticking out of the shutter,” she said.
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Bloor said she “just kind of shuffled off to the side.” (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
The snake was identified as a carpet python, a non-venomous constrictor commonly found in The coastal areas of Australia.
Despite the terrifying encounter, Bloor said she was relieved it wasn’t another animal.
“Toads drive me crazyshe said.
Snake catcher Kurt Whyte told it ABC News that snake activity has increased now that the breeding season is over and the eggs are starting to hatch.
“Obviously in this warm weather we’re seeing a lot of them going out and basking in the sun,” Whyte said.
Whyte added that while snake populations have not necessarily increased, sightings are becoming more common housing developments expanding into the Australian bushland.
“They need to find places to live, and our backyards provide the perfect habitat,” he said.
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He warned that common household features could provide easy access for snakes seeking shelter.
“Unfortunately, the gaps in our garage doors … provide the perfect entry points for a snake,” Whyte said.
