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
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