A woman had the shock of her life upon waking up in Australia. Upon awaking up, she discovered an eight-foot carpet python laying on her bed.
Rachel Bloor, half-asleep, thought her dog was laying on her chest. But when she reached out to pet the animal, she touched something slithering instead. That's when her husband whispered a warning to her.
"Babe, don't move. There's about a two-and-a-half metre (8 feet) carpet python on top of you," her husband told her, via the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Her first thought was to run.
She had two dogs and wanted to get them safely away from the snake.
Carpet Python Lying On Bed
"I thought if my Dalmatian realised that there's a snake there... it's gonna be carnage," she told the BBC. "I was worried about the dogs."
Fortunately, her husband managed to get the animals out of the room. But the Australian woman was still stuck on teh bed with a python slithering across the top of her covers. She carefully tried to remove herself without angering the snake.
"I was just trying to shimmy out from under the covers... in my mind, going, 'Is this really happening? This is so bizarre,' " she told the BBC. "So, I sort of side shuffled out."
Upon leaving the bed, she began trying to urge the python to leave through the window shutters. She believes the snake entered the house through the same way.
"It was that big that even though it had been curled up on me, part of its tail was still out the shutter," she told the BBC. "I grabbed him, [and] even then he didn't seem overly freaked out. He sort of just wobbled in my hand."
Fortunately, the pyton eventually left the room and exited into the backyard. Carpet pythons are common in the area.
"They are a popular choice when selecting a snake breed to keep as a pet, thanks to being non-venomous," the SRSC website adds. "The coastal carpet python can grow to substantial lengths and can still be dangerous when handled incorrectly."
