Shocked homeowner finds a python having a bath in his toilet after it slithered up the drain
Pythons will regularly refuse to leave the toilet, resisting snake catchers' attempts to prize them out
A SHOCKED homeowner found a python having a bath in his toilet after it slithered up the drain at 6am.
The family quickly called up Stewart Lalor from Brisbane Snake Catchers, who raced to catch the slippery intruder.
Lalor told the : “I’ve had jobs in the past where I’ve had hands in the toilet for half an hour.
“This guy half took himself out (of the water) for me which was unusual. I think he was curious to see what was going on.”
Lalor managed to grab the python easily and take him back outside where he belonged.
Snakes regularly make their way through house pipes — especially in older homes where the pipes typically sit outside.
Offering advice to families who might find a snake in their toilet, Lalor said the worst thing to do was press the flush and push the snake further down the pipe.
The Australian Python
- Can grow up to four metres in length
- Can weight up to 15kg
- Largely nocturnal
- Kill prey by constriction, and mainly hunt small mammals, birds and lizards
- They have been known to kill domestic cats and small dogs
- Pythons are the most commonly caught non-venomous snaked in Queensland
- Their bites leave a substantial laceration
The only thing worse than a python in the toilet was an angry python in the toilet.
In July last year, a Townsville man found himself in a similar situation when he stumbled upon a carpet python in his toilet.
Geoff Jacobs at Queensland Wildlife Solutions told reporters that particular python had probably followed a rat into the sewer.
“All over the world rats go down in sewers and the snakes go in there after them.”
And in March last year, a Sunshine Coast teen had the fright of his life when he sat down to go to the toilet and felt a python wrap itself around his leg.
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“The boy said he sat down on the toilet, and this cold thing wrapped around his leg,” Snake Catcher Noosa’s Luke Huntley told the .
“He managed to shake it off luckily and I was called out. The snake was just looking for food and water. He knew he was cornered and felt like he had to defend himself.”
Snake invasions are not uncommon in Australian homes, including in this instance where an enormous snake-like beast crawls from a home's plumbing network.
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