Australian woman wakes to find massive python on her chest

At midnight on Monday, Rachel Bloor stirred in her bed when she noticed a heavy weight curling over her chest.

Half-asleep, he reached for his dog and found himself stroking a smooth, sliding object instead.

As Bloor retreated under the duvet, pulling it up to her neck, her partner turned on the bedside lamp, confirming the Brisbane couple’s fears.

“He says, ‘Oh baby. Don’t move. There’s an 8-foot python on you,'” Bloor told the BBC.

His first words were blasphemous. Second, an order to evacuate the dogs.

“I thought if my Dalmatian realized there was a snake in there… there would be a massacre.”

The dogs were secured outside the room, and her husband wished he could be with them. Bloor carefully began to free himself.

“I was just trying to wriggle out from under the covers… in my mind I was like, ‘Is this really happening? This is so weird.'”

He believes the non-venomous carpet python got through his window blinds and got stuck in his bed below.

Once free of the python, it began casually feeding it back from where it came from.

“It was so big that even though it was curled up on top of me, part of its tail was still sticking out of the shutter.”

“I caught him, [and] Even then he didn’t seem very afraid. “It was kind of dangling in my hand.”

The same could not be said for her husband, who was stunned, but Bloor was less than impressed, having grown up on the land surrounding the snakes.

“I guess if you stay calm, they’ll stay calm too.”

But he said it would be another story if it were the cane toad, one of the country’s most damaging and unsightly pests.

“I can’t stand them, it’s like they make me dry gag. I mean, if it were a cane toad it would scare me.”

All animals and humans escaped the interaction unharmed.

Carpet pythons are snakes that are common in coastal areas of Australia and often eat small mammals such as birds.