Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers’ Stuart McKenzie visited a Yaroomba home to free a large carpet python that had become trapped in a tricky situation.
When he arrived, the massive python had already gobbled up approximately a foot and a half of the blanket and was still attempting to swallow it whole. The smell of the household dog lured the python inside, and it mistakenly thought the blanket covering the dog was a hairy mammal.
According to McKenzie, the python became perplexed after ingesting canine odor particles with its tongue and mistook the rough blanket fabric for a “mammal of some kind.”
He attempted to free it by tickling its stomach. A foot and a half of the blanket was ultimately regurgitated by the python before McKenzie gently picked it up, placed it in his bag, and released it back into the wild.
Despite their potential length of four meters, carpet pythons are not ᴘᴏɪsᴏɴᴏᴜs. Most of Aᴜsᴛʀᴀʟɪᴀ’s regions are home to this species, which is occasionally spotted in tree branches or on sheds and building rooftops. They frequently consume small animals such as rats, possums, birds, and lizards.
The degradation of their habitat is the main danger to carpet pythons. Snakes no longer have adequate cover to seek their prey or adequate shelter to deposit and inCᴜʙᴀte their eggs as a result. Additionally, pet trade, feral cat and fox predation, road ᴋɪʟʟ, and other human activities harm carpet pythons.
source:dailylifeworld.com
