Queensland homeowner captures carpet python on door camera

A Queensland family been awoken by a surprise visitor when their ring camera captured a python slithering over their front door.

Snake catcher Dan Busstra said he was sent the video from a family at Twin Waters on the Sunshine Coast who were woken by the uninvited guest by an alert on their ring camera at 1.45am on Sunday.

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Shocked, they checked the camera, only to be greeted by the large python moving through the frame.

“She had the light pop up saying that she has someone at her door,” Busstra said.

“When she went to check it, there’s a carpet python hanging its head over the doorbell camera.”

Busstra said it would be scary getting a notification of someone at the front door that early in the morning.

“At the bottom of the camera, it even says it’s a person!” he said.

While pythons may look big and scary to some, Busstra said they are more docile than people think.

“Pythons when left alone are chill and will cruise past you without a worry in the world, you know, where as eastern browns snakes are very flighty, very quick to run away,” he said.

“Pythons will still try to avoid you too, but they’re a little bit more chill in the sense of they’re not flighty like our venomous snakes are.”

Busstra said snakes do become less active in the winter, however, warmer days have seen a few more out and about.

“The colder it gets, the less active they become because snakes enter a state called brumation when it’s really cold,” he said.

“But because our winter has been pretty nice and warm most of the time, they’re not really brumating like they normally would.

Brumation is the reptilian equivalent of mammal hibernation and is triggered by dropping temperatures and shorter daylight hours, making the snakes enter a period of slowed metabolism and reduced activity.

“So when it’s warmer, middle of summer, it’s a 24-hour business for me.

I catch snakes all day, all night,” Busstra said.

“As it’s winter, you might get one night call every day, every night instead of the 15 calls a night.”

While Busstra said he understood there are situation where snakes need to be relocated, he also said that having a snake about can be mutually bennificial.

“I’m a very big believer of leaving snakes in roofs because they don’t live in your roof full time,” he said.

“Most snake catchers are very keen on the idea of leaving snakes where they are unless you actually need to move them. (Sowever) Some of them unfortunately care more about money than that.

“If you’ve got a snack in your roof, it’s the best pest control you could possibly ask for,

“I’m very big on co-existence when it’s safe to do so.”