A Coombabah family in the Gold Coast had quite the shock when they discovered a python in their wine glass collection.
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The coastal carpet python or aspiring bartender tried to escape the cold weather in the family's kitchen.
In a video posted to social media, Hudson Snake Catching was called to collect the fine-dining python.
Gold Coast snake catcher Tim Hudson found the python in the Coombabah family's kitchen on May 8.
It was quite the feat for the Gold Coast snake catcher to remove the 1.5 metre python that had intertwined itself among wine glasses.
"It was pretty difficult to catch the snake while not breaking those glasses, it was tangling around like half a dozen wine glasses," Mr Hudson said.
Luckily for the family Mr Hudson captured the snake without breaking any glasses.
The local snake catcher joked on his Facebook page that the python had fine taste.
"Ready to wine and dine and is quite the connoisseur," Mr Hudson said.
Coastal carpet snakes are non-venomous. The average adult is 2 metres long.
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While the python isn't venomous, Mr Henderson warned it didn't mean the bite was pain-free.
"They've got a hundred odd teeth there, up to a hundred anyway," he said in the social media video.
"It's not the most soothing experience when they bite."
As the weather becomes cooler, there will be fewer snakes out and about.
"They're coming inside to warmer places of refuge to try and stabilise their body temperature and stay warm," he said.
"So that's why we are catching more and more snakes inside and also in roofs [as] a lot of them are going into brumation period."
While snakes do not hibernate they enter a stage called brumation. In brumation Mr Hudson said they are less active and slow down their heart rate and metabolism.
"They're all looking for warm places now," Mr Hudson said.
