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- Rachel Bloor from Brisbane, Australia was lying in bed when she reached out to pet what she though was her pet dog
- She was shocked to find an 8-foot carpet python lying on top of her
- “I thought if my Dalmatian realises that there’s a snake there… it’s gonna be carnage,” she told the BBC.
A woman in Australia recently woke up in the worst way imaginable.
Brisbane resident Rachel Bloor thought her pet dog was lying on top of her chest in bed, only to reach out and discover something sleek and slithering when she put her arm on top of the bedsheet.
“Babe, don’t move. There’s about a two-and-a-half metre (8 feet) carpet python on top of you,” her husband told her after she’d asked him to switch on the bedroom lights, reported the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and BBC.
Bloor’s first thought was to get her two dogs as far away from the situation as possible in case they tried to attack the python.
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“I thought if my Dalmatian realises that there’s a snake there… it’s gonna be carnage,” she told the BBC.
“I was worried about the dogs,” Bloor added to ABC.
After her husband took her pets out of the room, Bloor then faced the even more delicate task of safely removing herself from the bed without alarming the snake.
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“I was just trying to shimmy out from under the covers… in my mind, going, ‘Is this really happening? This is so bizarre,’ ” she told the BBC.
“So, I sort of side shuffled out,” she added to ABC.
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Once freed, she began to tease the python through some window shutters — which is how she believes it slithered into the house in the first place.
“It was that big that even though it had been curled up on me, part of its tail was still out the shutter,” she told the BBC.
“I grabbed him, [and] even then he didn’t seem overly freaked out. He sort of just wobbled in my hand.”
The snake eventually left the bedroom unharmed and moved into the couple’s backyard.
The carpet python is one of the most commonly sighted snakes in Queensland, according to the Snake Rescue Sunshine Coast (SRSC).
“They are a popular choice when selecting a snake breed to keep as a pet, thanks to being non-venomous,” the SRSC website adds. “The coastal carpet python can grow to substantial lengths and can still be dangerous when handled incorrectly.”
After the incident Bloor added that although the incident was a shock, she and her husband weren’t scared because they have been surrounded by snaked all their lives.
The same doesn’t apply to any amphibians who might want to join her in the night, however.
“Toads freak me out,” she told ABC.
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