“Not the snake you want to crawl all over you,” Hervey Bay Snake Catchers in Australia wrote about one of the snakes pulled from the toilet
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Coastal carpet python in toilet
A man in Australia recently found a python waiting in his toilet twice in one week.
On Oct. 22, Hervey Bay Snake Catchers in Queensland received a call to extract a coastal carpet python from a toilet in the coastal city of Maryborough.
The snake relocation company wrote in a Facebook post that the reptile “managed to get right into the S bend, so we had to cut the pipe under the house and poke from one end and flush from the other.”
They joked that the snake “got annoyed enough to come out and see us,” which allowed the professionals to capture it and remove it from the toilet.
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A coastal carpet python being removed from a toilet in Queensland, Australia
Several photos of the snake were shared with the post. One shows the reptile’s long body being pulled out of the toilet by a person. The other images are close-ups of the scaly creature being handled.
But that was not the end of the story for the homeowner. A few days later, a different snake of the same species paid a visit to the same toilet.
On Oct. 25, the business shared a second Facebook post with the caption, “Another coastal carpet python in the same toilet as a few days ago!”
The post featured three images of the snake. One photo shows the olive green reptile curled up inside the toilet bowl, while others include a picture of the snake being held in a yellow cloth and of the snake sizing up a handler.
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“Not the snake you want to crawl all over you,” the company playfully added on social media.
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A costal carpet python after the reptile was removed from a toilet
In a statement to PEOPLE, Hervey Bay Snake Catchers shared that coastal carpet python are nonvenomous snakes that are “harmless” to humans. The homeowner who found the two snakes was surprised by the encounters, but “no one was in danger or frightened,” according to the company.
In a recent interview with Newsweek, snake handler Drew Godfrey said the homeowner reached out after he “found the snake when he went to use the toilet.”
Godfrey said the first snake “was a female that was likely in there to soak its skin before shedding.”
The snake professional said the second snake was a male who “most likely entered looking for the female as that was the last place she would have left a scent trail.”
“Getting snakes from toilets is not unusual but thankfully not that common. It’s something we may have to do once or twice per year,” he explained. He continued to share that the snakes are “nonvenomous” despite their threatening appearance.
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A costal carpet python
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According to the Australian branch of the RSPCA, coastal carpet pythons are “widespread in eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales.” The snakes tend to lounge in trees and on the roofs of houses but can also be found on the ground.
They are considered “the largest subspecies in the Morelia genus” and can grow to be 2.7-3.0 meters long – converted to 8.9-9.5 feet. Much like the two snakes pictured in the Facebook posts, the reptiles tend to be olive brown and tan with varying patterns.
