Keep your pets safe and notify an expert if you find this calling card

No, it’s not another “poo jogger”. But if you find these big and unsightly nuggets on your property there’s still cause for alarm.

A Samford Valley resident has been left startled by a calling card that some people have wrongly attributed to another “poo jogger”.

Colleen Bertschinger found the unsightly, and sizeable faeces on a deck underneath her residence at Draper, about 17km north west of Brisbane, where she attends to rescued wildlife.

At first she thought it may have belonged to a large dog or even a small horse, but not knowing exactly who to what it was, she reached out for help on social media.

She was shocked to find that it was the faeces of a three-metre python.

“It’s nerve wracking,” Ms Bertschinger told The Courier-Mail.

“I go down there all the time and you know it can also get in the house.

“We’ve had carpet pythons over the years and we have relocated them but never that size.”

A Draper resident thought a dog or small horse had left a calling card but found out later it was that of a three metre python. Photo: Facebook

Ms Bertschinger said the area where the python left its calling is also where she assists injured wildlife, such as possums, back to health.

Gold Coast Snake Catcher co-owner Tony Harrison said droppings just one telltale sign that a python had taken up residence at your house

“It’s either faeces or a shed skin that gives them away,” he said.

Mr Harrison said the size of the faeces suggested it was a three-metre python.

“I’ve been in roofs where the faeces has been two feet long and you know can tell straight away the size of the snake,” he said.

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A number of people commented, and even posted a photo, of the poo jogger being the culprit of the deposit.

“ … that did cross my mind, but with 5 acres I reckoned there were more private places to go,” Ms Bertschinger said.

Brisbane and North Snake Catcher owner Steve Brown said the white substance in the photo was its urate.

He said homeowners were more likely to spot the white substance than the droppings.

“They shed their skin only when they grow and poo about once every two weeks but they will urate more often,” he said.

He said pythons can swallow prey three times their girth.