In brief
Rachel Bloor's night took an unusual turn when she discovered a carpet python wrapped around her as she woke in her Brisbane home. Startled but calm, she managed to remove the python, which had slithered through her window. The incident highlights the common interaction between Australians and local wildlife, particularly non-venomous snakes like the carpet python.
In the middle of the night on Monday, Rachel Bloor stirred in her bed to find a heavy weight curled up on her chest. Half asleep, she reached out for her dog - and instead found herself petting a smooth, slithering object. Her partner switched on the bedside lamp and confirmed the couple's fears. He goes, 'Oh baby. Don't move. There's like a 2.5m python on you, Bloor told the BBC. Her first words were expletives. The second, an order to evacuate the dogs. I thought if my Dalmatian realizes that there's a snake there... it's gonna be carnage. With the dogs secured outside and her husband wishing he was with them, Bloor carefully extricated herself. I was just trying to shimmy out from under the covers... Is this really happening? This is so bizarre. She believes the non-venomous carpet python had squeezed itself through the shutters on her window onto her bed below. Once freed from the python, she began casually feeding it back out the way it came in. It was that big that even though it had been curled up on me, part of its tail was still out the shutter. Thankfully, all animals and humans escaped from the interaction unharmed. Carpet pythons are common in coastal areas of Australia and usually eat small mammals such as birds.
