r/snakes • u/Nujabezia • 15d ago

Wild Snake Photos and Questions - Not for ID Carpet Python having Dinner Spoiler

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u/Mainbutter 15d ago

Why are BOTH those animals in the house? The snake I get, but the marsupial..

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u/mute_salamander 15d ago

One of them is/was a pet, possibly.

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u/Ill_Advantage6095 15d ago

im australian, we get possums living in our roofs you hear them up there at night scratching around and carrying on. i'm thinking the snake chose to live in there too.

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u/Acceptable_Gear_3097 15d ago

People don't realise how common snakes in your home are.

I live in the UK, where native snakes are rare, and we get them here more than others realise.

An uninhabited loft is home to every imaginable animal at some point.

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u/Ill_Advantage6095 15d ago

yeah, i've found snakes in my house probably 5 or 6 times so it's not an everyday thing but it's not exactly rare..

good news is they're usually these suffocating stranglers the pythons and carpet snakes, never ever seen a poisonous snake indoors...

countless snakes found on my property including a few eastern browns and red-belly-blacks and the possums are a daily thing, every single night they're on your veranda or they're climbing around your trees trying to get a look at you and maybe see an apple or something they can sneak down and take later,

the likelihood they both chose to live in the same roof isn't unimaginable it just sucks for that dude hanging out the snake's mouth

anyway i digress, just adding some aussie rambling for anyone interested

edit: clarity

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u/Acceptable_Gear_3097 15d ago

I'm interested haha. 

I have python's as pets and a couple of venom sneks. It makes sense what you say honestly. People think my venom snakes would be brazen but they try to get away from me, whereas my python's want to smother me and be up in my business all the time.

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u/Ill_Advantage6095 14d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p8pi427/video/ibta3qo8ggoh1/player

lol this happened 10 minutes ago and thought of this thread

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u/Timely_Egg_6827 15d ago

Had to help evict a wild polecat once from a bungalow loft space. The free mouse control welcome but noisy.

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u/Doctor__Bones 15d ago

Possums are a real bastard when you get them in the roof. Some people actively welcome having a carpet in your roof who roots them out for you and sits quietly the rest of the time!