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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 an expletive. The second were 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 onto her bed below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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 mammals such as birds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n