By Freddy Pawle For Daily Mail Australia
12:47 10 Dec 2023, up to date 12:49 10 Dec 2023
Pet homeowners have been urged to keep watch over their pooches and kittens after a large snake was found digesting one thing ‘huge’.
The carpet python was discovered on a property in Buderim, south of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland on Thursday, with a abdomen bulge about the identical dimension as a cat or a small canine.
Stuart from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers was known as to take away the snake from the property and described its meal as ‘the most important meals merchandise I’ve ever seen’.
The snake catcher took the python to a veterinarian the place a microchip scanner was handed over the bulge to see if a household’s pet was inside.
It was launched after the take a look at decided no pet was inside, believing as an alternative to have eaten a very giant brushtail possum.
The python was launched right into a forested space by one other worker of Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers, Dan.
He mentioned male pythons are most energetic through the peak of summer season after their mating season as they attempt to put weight again on earlier than winter.
‘Basically they’ve executed their mating, females are all beginning to lay eggs, so they will not be consuming, however the boys wanna go and put the burden again on and get their conditioning prepared for the following winter interval,’ he advised Yahoo News.
Numerous the corporate’s recent callouts for snake catches have been for pythons which have eaten ‘Possums, birds, no matter they will get’.
While it’s uncommon for a python to hunt out a canine or cat due to their nocturnal consuming habits, it is not unimaginable.
‘We’ve really had a few situations the place snakes have been wrapped round dogs. So it is good to remember that there is that form of risk to dogs as nicely,’ Dan mentioned.
He warned homeowners of small dogs and puppies to maintain a selected eye on their pets particularly if they have an inclination to chase lizards or snakes.
