Mum's frightening discovery in her shed weeks after pet cat vanished
Skin-crawling video shows a snake catcher removing a huge python from a NSW shed, as the homeowner feared her missing cat may have been a meal for the monster serpent.
Fiona Maguire said her Persian blue Russian cat, Mr Bubbles, went missing about two months before she spotted the massive diamond python in her backyard shed.
The feline had been with the family for eight years and “never missed a dinner,” the Woy Woy resident told Yahoo News Australia on Tuesday.
Ms Maguire was in her shed doing some boxing on a bag hanging up about a fortnight ago, when she received the fright of her life.
“I got about 10 jabs in and saw something out of the corner of my eye. I looked up and saw this enormous diamond python uncurling,” she said.
The mother of two dropped her boxing gloves and did a “funny little dance” before she ran from the shed screaming.
“My heart rate went up so fast, I’m sure that was 100 calories gone right then,” she said, describing the experience as “downright terrifying”.
The Kiwi national said it was the first time she had seen a snake since arriving in Australia nine years ago.
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Footage shows a snake catcher struggling to remove the amazing creature from the shed, before finally succeeding.
“The snake was not impressed and did not want to leave,” Ms Maguire said.
She can be heard in the video begging the catcher not to let the snake escape.
Ms Maguire said her pet cat Mr Bubbles had gone missing about 12 weeks ago and her family never found his body. She suspected the snake was a possible culprit.
“It’s a really strange coincidence... The cat was fast but the snake would have been fast, too.’
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