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An Australian snake wrangler on the Sunshine Coast showed up just in time to save a family’s pet bird from a coastal carpet python. The snake was nose-to-nose with the family’s bird when snake wrangler Stuart McKenzie arrived just in time to stop the snake from entering the cage.
In a video recently posted to his business Instagram, Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7, Stuart McKenzie said it’s all too common for encounters like this to happen early in the morning and for the snake to eat pet birds when nobody is around to prevent it.
Coastal carpet pythons can be found across a pretty massive region in Australia ranging from the upper region of New South Wales to Queensland. It is one of the most common snake species found in Queensland but even still, nobody ever expects to wake up and find a snake breaking into their bird cage to eat their family’s pet bird…
Snake Wrangler Captures Coastal Carpet Python From Eating Family’s Pet Bird
On Facebook, Stuart McKenzie wrote “This Coastal Carpet Python is now out enjoying some beautiful bushland where it can find another prey item to fill its belly with!” This came after the snake wrangler captured the Coastal carpet python and relocated it to a safer area.
This is a non-venomous snake but that doesn’t mean coastal carpet pythons don’t pose a threat. These snakes can grow up to 13.7 feet in length and these pythons feed on chickens, lizards, possums, mice, wallabies, small dogs, rabbits, and more small game. A family’s pet bird would make a perfect meal for a mid-sized carpet python in Queensland, Australia.
To give you a sense of how big these coastal carpet pythons get, here is another video from this snake wrangler. This clip was filmed last October after the snake ate a large meal. It is MASSIVE.
I’ve got a pretty big rescue dog, a livestock guardian ‘Colorado Mountain Dog’ that’s a mix of Anatolian Shepherd and Great Pyrenees and honestly, I’m not convinced that snake couldn’t mess up a big dog like mine. That reptile is an absolute unit.