Spotted python, spotted!
15 12 2007I’m getting used to all things that crawl, slither or walk about the place. Apparently my house appears to be a wildlife mecca for anything slightly unsavoury. It keeps things interesting…
Today I thought it might be a good idea to get a cool drink from the fridge. I removed the bottle from the fridge and found my eyes focusing on a brown and black object just to the rear of the fridge by the compressor. Now at this point, I should point out, that already I’ve had 1 rat, 1 mouse, 2 possums, 1 huntsman spider, 100s of cockroaches, literally millions of ants and numerous (as yet unidentified) other spiders.
So todays surprise, lurking in the dark was a snake.
Yeah, I know. First thought, what the hell do I do now! So I did what I did last time - research. The Queensland Government has quite a comprehensive section on their website about snakes (and from reading quite rightly so). So anyway, I’d decided it would probably be best to call a commercial snake catcher seeing as I had no idea if this baby was venomous. Also as the snake was in a confined space, thought he might get a little grumpy if I tried to pull the fridge out! That’s a hard lesson to learn I’m sure if suddenly you find out that he is venomous.
I managed to sit at my laptop in the kitchen googling commercial snake catchers whilst keeping one eye on the general fridge vicinity. I heard movement and saw the blighters large body dissappear through a hole in the wall behind my cabinets - so that’s how he got in!
I guess in the end he did us both a favour, I’ve now temporarily blocked the hole up and I’m waiting for the landlord to attend to do this permanently. Phew!
In case you’re interested I think it was a spotted python (non-venomous), you can check out his vital stats here (scroll down the page to find Spotted Python). The Queensland Government page also makes for some very interesting reading about some the spotted pythons not so friendly cousins.
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