{"id":423113,"date":"2026-01-21T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423113\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:11:07","slug":"woman-awakes-to-find-python-on-her-chest-her-reaction-is-unusual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423113\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman awakes to find python on her chest; her reaction is unusual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 20, 2026, 11:30 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A sleeping woman in Australia thought her dog had curled up atop her when suddenly feeling weight, but her husband gave the shocking news with a warning, \u201cDon\u2019t move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cHe goes, \u2018Oh baby. Don\u2019t move. There\u2019s like a 2.5-meter [8-foot] python on you,\u201d Rachel Bloor explained to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cdex34930r4o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Her reaction was not what one might expect during a frightening encounter such as this. It was actually a bit unusual. Bloor didn\u2019t immediately freak out, instead remaining calm and slowly wriggling out from under the covers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI was just trying to shimmy out from under the covers, thinking, \u2018Is this really happening?&#8217;\u201d she told BBC. \u201cThis is so bizarre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/12\/11\/eastern-brown-snake-lying-on-dirt-road-in-australia\/87708846007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Also on FTW Outdoors: Can you spot the deadly snake lurking ahead? These kids didn\u2019t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Bloor, who lives in Brisbane, said she was half-asleep when she felt the weight, and reached out for her dog. Instead, she felt a smooth, slithering object, sending her deeper under the covers. Her husband switched on the bedside lamp and made the startling discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;It was that big that even though it had been curled up on me, part of its tail was still out the shutter [and out the window],&#8221; she told BBC. &#8220;I grabbed him, [and] even then he didn&#8217;t seem overly freaked out. He sort of just wobbled in my hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:641px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/88260640007-python.png\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The carpet python curled atop Rachel Bloor was so big, part of its tail was out the window.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">She casually began feeding it back out the way it came in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While Bloor was hardly fazed, the same could not be said about her husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI think if you\u2019re calm, they\u2019re calm,\u201d Bloor told BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">She told BBC that her first thought was to evacuate the dogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI thought if my Dalmatian realizes that there\u2019s a snake there\u2026it\u2019s gonna be carnage,\u201d she told BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Bloor had grown up around snakes and obviously knows how to handle them. She identified the slithering creature as a carpet python.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:183px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/88260644007-queensland-government.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A generic image of a carpet python.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/environment.qld.gov.au\/wildlife\/animals\/living-with\/snakes\/carpet-python\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Queensland Government Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation<\/a>, describes the carpet python as non-venomous. They catch their prey and suffocate it by constricting it and then swallowing it whole. They live almost everywhere in Australia except Tasmania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 20, 2026, 11:30 a.m. ET A sleeping woman in Australia thought her dog had curled up atop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[159202,49,48,66,167945,167946,160877,167373,177104,177103,177102,159750,177101,162635,159085,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-423113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-sstssportsoutdoors","13":"tag-sstsnoutdoors","14":"tag-tagaccidents-disasters","15":"tag-tagaustralia","16":"tag-tagbbc","17":"tag-tagdogs","18":"tag-tagoffbeat","19":"tag-tagoverall-negative","20":"tag-tagreptiles-amphibians","21":"tag-tagwildlife","22":"tag-typestory","23":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}