Anyone lost a carpet python?

[Choco]

Hi all,

Has anyone lost a python on gold coast area?

A friend just rang me saying he caught what he believed to be a 7 foot carpet. I'm going to pick it up tonight if anyone has had one escape let me know otherwise i'll be letting the appropriate people know to come get it.


Cheers.

 

[$NaKe PiMp]

could quite probably be a wild one

 

[Miss B]

*cough* I lost one *cough*








(j/k)...

 

[reptilegirl_jordan]

u couldnt help urself miss b

 

[Choco]

He's quite placid and calm if he is wild. Didn't flinch a bit at being touched. He was in a clear plastic tub and didn't seem to care about any movement around him. I've got him in a spare enclosure now and is quite content with movement aroung the front of it so he may well be a lost pet.

We didn't want to release him in the same area he was caught because he's likely to end up in someone else's yard next time and probably meet a shovel or golf club.

 

[JasonL]

Calm or not, it is still quite possibly a wild or a once wild snake.

 

[Ozzie Python]

Where abouts on the coast did you find it? And what type of carpet? Unless it is not a local species there is every chance it is wild, there are alot of wild ones around at the moment. Large carpets are usually reasonably placid so i wouldn't be assuming it was captive based on that.

 

[Kyro]

I would say there would be a much higher chance of it being wild carpet than a lost pet, considering they are in the wild in your area. Release him in the nearest bushy area to where he was found & all should be ok.

 

[Casey]

Most wild carpets I come across are usually quite placid, and often amenable to handling, except when they have been harassed by hero's yielding shovels, domestic pets etc. I would advise calling someone licenced to catch and release, as they will know the most appropriate location for release.

 

[zulu]

re Anyone

If there is some paddocks or a creek near the house he was found he probably lives there and would probably be better off unrescued unless where he came from is fully built up and he may enjoy adrive to the nearest bushland and be released without the fuss.

 

[=bECS=]

If you're worried he might end at the end of someones shovel etc if you release him, i would do what you originally said and call the people in the know.
They will release him into a appropriate area and you will sleep better at night

 

[Choco]

Found him/her at the end of bermuda st in the built up estate the other side of the highway. I'll attach a photo, there's quite nice markings. I'll keep it till tomorrow in case someone sees this and has lost it, or knows a friend that has, before I have him/her released. It's the first large wild python I've really dealt with. Growing up in country NSW most contact we had was with 'vens' so to have such a placid wild caught, if he/she is, is kinda cool.

 

[slim6y]

*cough* I lost one *cough*

We're watching you....

Me too

Anyways, I wouldn't say I 'hate' coastals but I certainly don't like them, and I'm entitled to my opinion :twisted:

BUSTED!












You released your carpet so no one would find out you secretly loved carpets! Tut tut!

 

[m.punja]

i think its mine. are you willing to freight it to melbourne:lol:

 

[Ozzie Python]

Just my opinion, choco, but you are better to contact an approved relocator or call ecoaccess and let them deal with it. There is every chance you will have someone say it is their snake and take home a wild caught, which is not fair on the snake, and we don't need the abuse in this thread about that. Most relocators would have released the snake in the back yard or somewhere very close by to where the snake was caught.

Then there is the whole issue of releasing a captive bred snake into the wild, which we don't need to go into with this particular thread. There are quite a few threads you could look up regarding that arguement.

Did your friend catch the snake outside doing its own thing or was it taken from inside a house?

 

[Choco]

Hi Ozzie,

If anyone actualy believed it was there's I was going to ask to see a license and record book at least showing the possession or a carpet. Not by any means a guarantee but better than taking someones word for it. Also stops someone without a license getting it and keeping it illegally. I'd rather re release it as a wild than have it wrongly kept as a captive. He found it out in the backyard. The dog was barking last night and he went out. He walked past the pool down to where the dog was, didin't see anything then turned aroung walking back to the house and saw it next to the pool.

I'll be ringing someone else to release it. I'd only be guessing of somewhere good and the area it was caught I'm sure is going to be have more houses built so wouldn't be the best spot.

 

[warren63]

If you found it down the end of Bermuda Street its not the sorta place i think a wild python would be hanging out.

 

[Ozzie Python]

Wild pythons will live anywhere. With development they will adapt to living in the roof of a house, under your house, absolutely anywhere. In fact you probably have a good supply of food around residential areas which has kept the snake in the area.

 

[Dipcdame]

Must be the one I lost in Adelaide about two years ago!!!!!!!

 

[TrueBlue]

it will almost certainly be a wild snake, they are very very common in s/e qld, especially in built up areas.
best to relocate it no more that 5-10 kms from where it was caught, perferably no more than 5km.