A Brisbane woman was left rattled after waking in the night to discover a non-venomous carpet python lying across her stomach and chest.
Rachel Bloor woke late on Monday evening to a heavy weight on her stomach and chest that she initially thought was her labradoodle, but when she put her arm on top of the covers, she felt something move in her hands.
She immediately woke her husband and told him to switch on the light.
She told ABC News that he told her: "Babe, don't move. There's about a two-and-a-half metre carpet python on top of you."
That's when the panic set in.
"I was worried about the dogs," Bloor said.
Her husband quickly removed their two dogs from the room. “It was me [who] was left in there to deal with it,” she said.
From the hallway, he instructed her to slowly crawl out from under the covers. “So, I sort of side shuffled out,” Bloor told ABC.
She believed it had slithered up to the second storey, climbed through the window, pushed the plantation shutter open, and then "curled up on top" of her.
Bloor, who grew up on an acreage, said she wasn't scared of the snake and was just glad it wasn't a toad.
Carpet pythons are constrictors that are common in coastal areas of Australia, and usually eat small animals such as birds.
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