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Brisbane Woman Guides 8-Foot Carpet Python Off Her Chest and Out a Window

Expert commentary links rising Queensland snake sightings to breeding-season activity alongside suburban encroachment.

Overview

  • Rachel Bloor awoke in her Brisbane home to a heavy weight and realized an approximately 2.5-meter carpet python was coiled on her chest.
  • Her husband turned on the light and removed their dogs as she slowly slid free and ushered the non-venomous snake back out the bedroom window.
  • Bloor believes the reptile entered through plantation shutters into the second-story room, with part of its tail still outside the shutter.
  • No one was injured and no professional snake catcher was called, with Bloor attributing her calm response to growing up around snakes.
  • Snake catcher Kurt Whyte told ABC News that sightings are climbing with breeding season, hot weather, and housing expansion, noting easy entry points such as gaps under garage doors.