Gold Coast home hosts massive three metre python
Making room for strange visitors is a given at Christmas time, but that has nothing on bunking with a three metre python. WATCH THE VIDEO
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MAKING room for strange visitors is a given at Christmas time, but even playing host to the in-laws has nothing on bunking with a three metre python.
Tamborine Mountain resident Patricia Tew said she was shocked and delighted to find a friendly carpet python had settled in her window box among the flowers Monday morning.
“I opened my curtains and it was just sitting there – it was a bit of a shock,” she said.
“I have lived here for just over a year and had heard there was a python who liked to make its home in the laundry from time to time, but this gave me a bit of a fright.”
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“It is very active, and doesn’t seem to mind people around it.
“When we walked in the room with our toast, the python even raised its head and flicked its tongue like it wanted a nibble.
“I was able to get close to get a few photos.
“It is about 2.5 to three metres long and has had something pretty big to eat recently.”
Ms Tew said the snake was the second she had seen that day.
“As long as I have lived here I hadn’t seen a snake, then all of a sudden they were all here at once,” she said.
“I had a black looking snake under the stairs the night before and then saw the python crawling down from the tree. I didn’t know it was heading to my flower box.
“I am a bit worried about my poor flowers.”
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Ms Tew said the python was still at home Tuesday morning.
“I will leave it be for now but might have to move it elsewhere in the yard soon.
“I won’t move it off the property, I would hate to think it might try to cross traffic or something – it was here before me after all.”
The snake was moved to another spot on the property on Wednesday.
Originally published as Gold Coast home hosts massive three metre python
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