Man Discovers Wild Python Hiding in His Toilet Twice in One Week

Hervey Bay Snake Catchers in Australia wrote, “Not the snake you want to crawl all over you,” in reference to one of the snakes that was removed from the toilet.

Twice in a week, a guy in Australia discovered a python lurking in his toilet.

A call to remove a coastal carpet python from a toilet in the coastal city of Maryborough was received by Hervey Bay Snake Catchers in Queensland on October 22.

In a Facebook post, the snake relocation firm stated that the reptile “managed to get right into the S bend, so we had to cut the pipe under the house and poke from one end and flush from the other.”

The snake “got annoyed enough to come out and see us,” they joked, allowing the experts to catch it and take it out of the toilet.

The post included a number of pictures of the snake. One depicts a human pulling the reptilian’s long body out of the toilet. The other pictures show the scaly monster being handled up close.

However, the homeowner’s story did not end there. A few days later, the same toilet was visited by another snake of the same type.

“Another coastal carpet python in the same toilet as a few days ago!” was the caption for a second Facebook post the company posted on October 25.

Three pictures of the snake were included in the post. Some photos depict the olive green reptile coiled up inside the toilet bowl, while another show the snake assessing a handler and being held in a yellow towel.

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“Not the snake you want to crawl all over you,” the business added in jest on social media.

Coastal carpet pythons are nonvenomous snakes that are “harmless” to people, according to a statement from Hervey Bay Snake Catchers to PEOPLE. “No one was in danger or frightened,” the business said, although the homeowner who discovered the two snakes was taken aback by the encounters.

Snake handler Drew Godfrey stated in a recent interview with Newsweek that the homeowner contacted him after he “found the snake when he went to use the toilet.”

According to Godfrey, the first snake “was a female that was likely in there to soak its skin before shedding.”

Since there was the final location where the female would have left a smell trail, the snake expert concluded that the second snake was a male that “probably entered looking for the female.”

Although fortunately rare, getting snakes from toilets is not uncommon. We might have to do it once or twice a year,” he clarified. The snakes are “nonvenomous” despite their intimidating appearance, he added.

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The RSPCA’s Australian section claims that coastal carpet pythons are “widespread in eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales.” Although they can be found on the ground, the snakes prefer to sunbathe in trees and on home roofs.

According to some, they are “the largest subspecies in the Morelia genus” and can reach lengths of 2.7–3.0 meters, which translates to 8.9–9.5 feet. The reptiles are typically tan and olive brown with different markings, much like the two snakes depicted in the Facebook pictures.