Huge Snake Found 'Smelling Flowers' On Kitchen Bench After Slithering Into Home

A mother-daughter duo was left startled after they found a huge snake inside their home in Tumbi Umbi, Australia.

Susan O’Hara was greeted by her 18-year-old daughter Grace at the entrance of their home when the former returned from shopping. Grace asked her to get back into the car as there was a huge snake at the back door. Grace immediately called her father to come and rescue them. However, by the time the father arrived, the snake slithered into the living room before climbing onto the kitchen bench using a stool.

While Susan couldn’t resist herself from entering the home and taking a photo of the reptile, her daughter managed to shoot some videos. The exact date of the incident was not known.

“It was very docile and chilled out — a very large diamond python. It seemed to like the smooth bench top and slithered over to the floral arrangement and sort of reared up like it was smelling the flowers. I tried to herd it outside, but it didn’t want to go, so I decided it could have the kitchen and went outside to wait for the boys to come home,” Susan told the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday.

Her husband and nephew arrived after some time. The husband picked the reptile up, took it outside the home and “released it into bush at the bottom of the garden.”

“I don’t like snakes but I didn’t want to see it hurt. I didn’t want it back in the house either. I put the picture on my Facebook and it’s been a source of amazement to the whole family ever since,” she said, adding that she had seen only one snake before this at the property when her pet cat had dragged home a dead reptile.

Australian Reptile Park supervisor Jake Meney said diamond pythons could grow up to three meters in length and usually fed on small mammals and birds.

“They kill their prey by constricting them until the suffocate — but they can bite if they feel threatened. Usually they just try to get away,” he said.

Meney added that anybody who finds a snake at their homes should call a snake catcher to remove it.

“They should be released as close as possible to where they were found. They have a limited home range and may not survive if they are taken out of that range,” he said.