Snake's hiding spot in terrified woman's bathroom stumps reptile catcher
A python's expert-level hiding skills stumped a snake catcher called in to collect it, after a terrified woman locked it in her bathroom overnight.
The Sunshine Coast woman received the fright of her life when she found a carpet python in her bathroom on Saturday night, so she locked the serpent in and blocked the door with a towel to stop it from escaping.
When Stuart McKenzie from The Snake Catcher 24/7 arrived at the Glasshouse Mountains home the following morning, he searched the uncluttered room from floor to ceiling, but couldn’t find the slithering house guest anywhere.
“When I first walked in here I couldn’t find anything. It’s a pretty open, clear bathroom," he explained in a video of the callout, shared to the company's Facebook page.
“There was no way he would have got out.”
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The snake catcher's only clue was a middle drawer under the sink he found “slightly open”.
It appears the python slithered into the open drawer, climbed down to the closed drawer below, and made itself comfortable.
“That would be quite a fright if you came in and needed to get your toothpaste, or something else from the bathroom and opened the drawer - and there’s a snake!” Mr McKenzie said in the video.
“Now this would definitely give you a scare if you were to open one of the bathroom drawers and had a python staring back at you,” he added in the caption accompanying the video.
The reptile expert said he found snakes were commonly entering homes through open doors or windows.
Many who viewed the video on social media commended the creature’s hiding skills.
“Expert level at hide and seek,” one wrote.
Another tagged a mate, saying: “Have fun doing your hair tomorrow morning.”
