An escaped pet python was found making itself a new home inside somebody’s front door in New South Wales.
Illawarra Snake Catcher posted a video of the encounter in Albion Park in the Wollongong area, to Facebook on the weekend.
The catcher, Glen Peacock, said it was the second escaped pet he’d been called out to in two days.
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“It seems to happen in batches,” he told 9news.com.au.
Diamond pythons are native to the local area, but the snake caught on camera appears to be a coastal carpet python, usually found further north.
“Often some of the pet ones are more bitey than the actual diamond pythons,” Peacock says in the video.
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“Diamonds are really docile.”
Peacock told 9news.com.au pet pythons could end up on the lam for a number of reasons, including insecure housing, or being dumped by an owner.
He said he’d had no response from people missing a snake for the last two escaped pets he had rescued, indicating they might have been owned illegally.
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Unclaimed non-native snakes are handed over to a wildlife rescue group for a time.
If nobody comes forward as the owner, they can go a reptile society and ultimately be handed out to a new home such as a wildlife park or reptile house that can prove it’s able to look after them safely.
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