Python hospitalises wife and five weeks later returns and bites husband

A carpet python which hospitalised a Queensland woman just days before Christmas has managed to find its way back to the home and this time pierce her husband's foot.

Jean Prime lost "a hell of a lotta blood" when the six-foot snake snuck up behind her and latched onto her leg as she prepared to trim a hedge in the backyard of her Banksia Beach property, north of Brisbane.

Unable to determine exactly what the snake was, she was rushed to hospital as her husband Michael waited for the snake catcher to arrive, who eventually identified it as a carpet python, removed it from the property and placed it a little more than two kilometres away.

"She was doing something with the pot plants and I believe the snake became startled and struck out and bit her," Peter Brabrook from Snake Catcher Moreton Bay said.

Five weeks later, as Mr Prime opened the back door in the middle of the night to let their dog outside he felt a sudden pain on his foot.

"I looked down and saw the snake with its mouth right open, staring back at me," Mr Prime told Yahoo7 News.

Trading places with his wife, it was Mr Prime this time who was taken to hospital as a precaution as snake catcher was called in.

After a quick look at photos taken during the first snake removal, the catcher quickly realised this was no coincidence.

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"He said 'I don't believe this, it's the same snake... the markings are (on its head) are the same'," Mr Prime recalled.

It was there it became obvious the python had not made its way back by accident, it was looking for something.

"My wife tipped up the plant pot where it had been living and sure enough six eggs dropped out," he added.

Mr Prime said there had been an influx of snake sightings in recent months, including a brown snake that snuck through the doggy door of his neighbour's home.

Mr Brabrook said keeping areas clean, clear and open gives snakes fewer places to hide.

He said his injuries weren't nearly as severe as his wife's but said he hopes the snake won't be able to make its way back this time after being dropped off five kilometres away.