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.”
“I grabbed him, [and] even then he didn’t seem overly freaked out. He sort of just wobbled in my hand.”
The same couldn’t be said for her stunned husband, but Bloor herself was barely fazed, having grown up on acreage around snakes.
“I think if you’re calm, they’re calm.”
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.
“I can’t stand them, like they make me dry retch. So if it was a cane toad, it would have scared me.”
All animals and humans escaped from the interaction unharmed.
Carpet pythons are constrictors that are common in coastal areas of Australia, and usually eat small animals such as birds.