Mammoth python stuck in food coma sunbaking after eating huge brekkie
Mammoth python is stuck sunbaking on a family’s front lawn after over indulging on a possum breakfast and becoming too full to move
- Giant python was sunbaking in Queensland
- The snake had just eaten two possums
- Snakes eat more as the temperatures cool
A carpet python has been forced to sunbake in the middle of a family’s front lawn after over indulging on possums.
The family in Pallara, in Brisbane’s south, called snake catcher Bryce Lockett on Sunday to remove the python after it ate a mother and joey brush-tailed possum from a nearby possum box.
Mr Lockett, from Snake Catchers Brisbane & Gold Coast, promptly gathered up the heavy python and relocated it to a place it could digest its meal in peace.
Towards the end of autumn, pythons often look for bigger meals to maintain their body fat before hibernating during the cooler, winter months, Mr Lockett advised.
A massive snake was seen sunbaking (pictured) after having a huge breakfast before it was relocated to a wildlife corridor by snake catcher Bryce Lockett
The giant python had just eaten a mother and joey possum from a nearby possum box (pictured stock)
Mr Lockett, who has been a professional snake catcher for 11 years, said it wasn’t uncommon to see reptiles out in public in Queensland at this time of year, especially as the temperature cools.
‘[At] this time of year, a lot of pythons are feeding getting ready for the cooler months,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.
As pythons grow bigger, so must their meals, which increases the risk of household pets like cats or chickens ending up on the menu, Mr Lockett said.
‘So [this is] best time to get your pet enclosures mesh properly to stop and unwanted visitors in the cages,’ he added.
The snake removal crew snapped a photo of the python and posted it online to warn people living in the area to keep an eye out for hungry snakes which might be slithering around the area.
The carpet python in Pallara comes after other large pythons were spotted around Queensland.
Even in Melbourne, snakes have been spotted invading houses and slipping under doors on the hunt for extra food.
A snake catcher showed how big snakes flatten themselves down to squeeze under doors
Mark Pelley (pictured) removed the eastern brown snake in Melbourne in March
An eastern brown snake was found by Victorian snake catcher Mark Pelley in March, who removed it before it could hide anywhere.
The large and highly venomous snake was removed from the Diamond Creek home in Melbourne’s north-east.
A 2.8m carpet python was also removed from a home in Tallebudgera on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
Over the course of an hour, Tim Hudson – who has 10 years’ experience catching reptiles – used a plethora of tricks to try and get the snake out before finally resorting to dismantling the roof instead.
Mr Hudson told Daily Mail Australia that statistically up to one-in-three Gold Coast homes have snakes hiding in the ceiling.
It took Tim Hudson (pictured) more than an hour to remove the python stuck in a Gold Coast home in March
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