A young mother woke to the hissing of her pet cat – and to her horror found a 6ft python wrapped around her baby daughter.

‘I thought I was having a nightmare, but then realised this was no bad dream,’ said 22-year-old Tess Guthrie from the town of Lismore in northern New South Wales.

‘It was only because the cat was hissing that I woke up and saw the snake with its body wrapped around my daughter Zara’s arm.’

Mrs Guthrie threw herself at the snake, grabbing it by the head and tried to pry it off her two-year-old daughter, who had been sleeping beside her mother.

But the snake fought back and sank its fangs three times into Zara’s hand.

Still, courageous Mrs Guthrie managed to pry the snake from her daughter and call for help, bringing an ambulance and a snake catcher racing to her home.

While Zara was being treated at the hospital for the snake bites – which weren’t venomous – snake expert Tex Tillis hunted down the python at Mrs Guthrie’s home.

He found it sleeping between the bedside table and the wall and suspects it had been in the bedroom for several days.

Mr Tillis said the coastal python, or carpet snake, was not trying to hurt the child.

‘It was trying to have a group hug,’ he told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph. ‘Pythons, underneath their bottom jaw, they have a row of sensors which enable them to see the world in terms of infrared pictures.

‘So in the dark they’re going to see a baby as this warm spot.’

After her bites were treated with antiseptic at Lismore Base Hospital, Zara was allowed to return home with her mother.

Mrs Guthrie said she had noticed her cat behaving out of character in the days leading up to the python incident.

‘She’s a very resourceful lady,’ she said of the family cat. ‘She tried to grab the snake’s head, but got six inches down which left the head free to bite the baby.’

Mr Tillis said the python was between five and 10 years old – ‘by no means a big fellah. They grow much, much bigger,’ he said.

Mrs Guthrie insisted the snake should not be killed and at her request it was released into the wild about three miles from the house.

‘She’s courageous and gutsy – and also compassionate,’ Mr Tillis said in a reference to Mrs Guthrie.



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I've always said it and i will say it again............
Next to God's love is the mother's love.

Mothers love

Motherz love indeed.. Tht snake lucky say no b naija im com

hope dat snake has been converted to soup, or better still, roasted as som delicacy. group hug ko, baby hug ni

can naija moms do this for their kids?

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greatgod2012: I've always said it and i will say it again............
Next to God's love is the mother's love.

But not with the love of this present gurls, we have this 21century...You are not exceptional

Only a mother's love is second to God's. All other sources of love expressions are questionable. How many boyfriends will do this for their girlfriend and vice versa?
If you have a mother, treat her like a queen, because when she's gone, no human will fill the void created by her death.

what is wrong wt oyinbo sef.see meat wey dey let go.next time d snake go enter anoda house.i pray he swallow d papa of d house

Mother's luv!!! so magical

Maximus17: can naija moms do this for their kids?

yes and yes! Maybe yours cannot, mine can.

Maximus17: can naija moms do this for their kids?

yes and yes! Maybe yours cannot, mine can.

the python was so friendly
only that the girls mother misunderstood it

I learnt snakes like the comfort of babies, is it true?

I was told similar thing when I served in Gubio, Borno state.. That it is house snake .. I kill d nonsense and burn it.. The oyinbo try wey free the snake

Na wah o...which one be group hug again? Any snake around my vicinity must be killed...and subsequently handed to the Calabaris....That woman try sha...if na Naija mom, na faint she go faint on seeing the snake. She go talk say na her mother-in-law from village send the snake come...Kai! My people...

Maximus17: can naija moms do this for their kids?

why not even more.

Emylexray: I learnt snakes like the comfort of babies, is it true?

would you allow them to comfort yours?

Guess what, i just checked under my bed just to be sure i have no company. Or else, Na screaming and usain bolt mode i go enter straight.



Come to think of it, can we call 767 on top snake matter for here! Even if na armed robbers they operate na after one hour dem go show.God help Nigeria.

If to say the woman na from Awka in Anambra,she no for fear cos na message the python wan come deliver. I hear say dem no d hurt sha.
All the same,it takes courage to touch that thing o...

I smh at the snake expert's sympathy for the snake more than for the child. Abrofo hmmm

Wow! Mother's love for her child.

sweet mother

Maximus17: can naija moms do this for their kids?

Yes! Yes! Yes!!! Lack of money isn't lack of love, the Nigerian mother will do that and more.

The greatest love I've experienced other than the love of God is my mom's love and I'll love her till I stop breathing

Waoh, the mum is awesome.

But my mum can do better than that woman.she wrestled me from the belly of an elephant once.

Yomieluv: Waoh, the mum is awesome.

But my mum can do better than that woman.she wrestled me from the belly of an elephant once.

Sorry o but na jungle you they live

Lakayana: would you allow them to comfort yours?

typical Nigerian, answering question with question.

Yomieluv: Waoh, the mum is awesome.

But my mum can do better than that woman.she wrestled me from the belly of an elephant once.

i like the way you lie

Maximus17: can naija moms do this for their kids?

Steupid question of the week.

If you are a product of failed abortion doesnt mean everyone mothers is like yours.


As far as i know... Nigerians moms are the best in the world...

Redmosquito: Group hug kwa? Oya in Jesus name! All my lonely enemies, begin to recieve group hugs from all types of snakes, vipers, cobras, mambas. Oya hug! Huuuuugggggg

Guy you too badt.