“Not the snake you want to crawl over you,” Hervey Bay Snake Catchers in Australia wrote about one of the snakes pulled from the toilet
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Coastal carpet python in toilet
A man in Australia recently found a python in his toilet twice a week.
On October 22, Queensland’s Hervey Bay Snake Catchers received a call to retrieve a coastal carpet python from a toilet in the coastal town of Maryborough.
The snake relocation company wrote in a Facebook post that the reptile “managed to get right into the S-bend, so we had to cut the pipe under the house and puncture one side and flush the other.”
They joked that the snake “got irritated enough to come out and see us,” allowing the professionals to catch it and remove it from the toilet.
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A coastal carpet python is removed from a toilet in Queensland, Australia
Several photos of the snake were shared with the post. One shows the reptile’s long body being pulled out of the toilet by a person. The other images are close-ups of the scaly creature being handled.
But that wasn’t the end of the story for the homeowner. A few days later, another snake of the same species visited the same toilet.
On October 25, the company shared a second Facebook post with the caption: “Another coastal carpet python in the same toilet as a few days ago!”
The message contained three images of the snake. One photo shows the olive green reptile curled up in the toilet bowl, while others include a photo of the snake held in a yellow cloth and a handler sizing it up.
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“Not the snake you want to crawl over you,” the company playfully added on social media.
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A ribbed carpet python after the reptile was removed from a toilet
In a statement to PEOPLE, Hervey Bay Snake Catchers shared that coastal carpet python are non-venomous snakes that are “harmless” to humans. The homeowner who found the two snakes was surprised by the encounters, but “no one was in danger or scared,” the company said.
In a recent interview with Newsweek, snake dealer Drew Godfrey said the homeowner reached out after “finding the snake while going to the bathroom.”
Godfrey said the first snake “was a female that was probably sitting there soaking its skin before shedding.”
The snake professional said the second snake was a male that “most likely came in looking for the female as that was the last place she would have left a scent trail.”
“Removing snakes from toilets is not unusual, but fortunately not that common. It’s something we might have to do once or twice a year,” he explained. He continued to say that despite their threatening appearance, the snakes are ‘non-venomous’.
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A ribbed carpet python
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According to the Australian branch of the RSPCA, coastal carpet pythons are “widespread in eastern Queensland and northeastern New South Wales.” The snakes tend to lounge in trees and on the roofs of houses, but can also be found on the ground.
They are considered “the largest subspecies in the genus Morelia” and can grow 2.7-3.0 meters in length – converting to 8.9-9.5 feet. Like the two snakes pictured in the Facebook posts, the reptiles are mostly olive brown and tan with different patterns.
