In the middle of the night on Monday, Rachel Bloor stirred in her bed to find a heavy weight curled up on her chest.<\/p>\n
Half asleep, she reached out for her dog – and instead found herself petting a smooth, slithering object.<\/p>\n
As Bloor retreated further under the covers and pulled them up to her neck, her partner switched on the bedside lamp and confirmed the Brisbane couple’s fears.<\/p>\n
“He goes, ‘Oh baby. Don’t move. There’s like a 2.5m python on you,” Bloor told the BBC.<\/p>\n
Her first words were expletives. The second, an order to evacuate the dogs.<\/p>\n
“I thought if my Dalmatian realises that there’s a snake there… it’s gonna be carnage.”<\/p>\n
The dogs secured outside the room – and her husband wishing he was with them – Bloor began carefully extricating herself.<\/p>\n
“I was just trying to shimmy out from under the covers… in my mind, going, ‘Is this really happening? This is so bizarre’.”<\/p>\n
She believes the carpet python – which is non-venomous – had squeezed itself through the shutters on her window and onto her bed below.<\/p>\n
Once freed from the python, she began casually feeding it back out the way it came in.<\/p>\n
“It was that big that even though it had been curled up on me, part of its tail was still out the shutter.”<\/p>\n
“I grabbed him, [and] even then he didn’t seem overly freaked out. He sort of just wobbled in my hand.”<\/p>\n
The same couldn’t be said for her stunned husband, but Bloor herself was barely fazed, having grown up on acreage around snakes.<\/p>\n
“I think if you’re calm, they’re calm.”<\/p>\n
Though if it had been a cane toad – one of the country’s most damaging, and ugly pests – that would be another story, she said.<\/p>\n
“I can’t stand them, like they make me dry retch. So if it was a cane toad, it would have scared me.”<\/p>\n
All animals and humans escaped from the interaction unharmed.<\/p>\n
Carpet pythons are constrictors that are common in coastal areas of Australia, and usually eat small animals such as birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the middle of the night on Monday, Rachel Bloor stirred in her bed to find a heavy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-248786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}