They say the garage had been broken into and two diamond pythons and a carpet snake were missing. The snakes, which are around 1.8 metres long, are not venomous.

Carpet pythons are commonly found in backyards of homes in northern NSW and Queensland, and the closely related diamond python is native to NSW and Victoria.

Peta Norton and her husband filmed the snake slither out of a hole in their roof and down the window of their Wyoming home on the New South Wales central coast on Friday night.

A family in a suburban Wollongong home found an unwelcome guest in their bathroom yesterday after discovering a massive diamond python curled up in their bathroom sink.

WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Image The Australian diamond python, or Morelia spilota spilota, is a subspecies of the carpet python found throughout Oceania.

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