Melvin Yap was fast asleep in his home at Jalan Loyang Besar at 6.30am on Oct 30 when he was awoken by the sound of his wife screaming.
He found a 1.5m long snake curled up on top their family's pet cage. He told The Straits Times: "My wife just came back from her night shift and our domestic worker realised there was a snake wrapped around the bird cage."
"When I saw it, I knew it was a python. I used a stick and a plastic bag at arm's length and nudged it into the bag," he said.
"It was quite docile, quite shy." said Mr Yap.
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The pet bird was "petrified" and hid in a corner of the cage.
The family kept the reptile in a fish tank and handed it over to the Animal Concerns Research & Education Society (ACRES) on Monday (Oct 30) afternoon.
There has been a spate of incidents involving snakes appearing in urban areas.
Just last week, it was reported that a snake had been found at Yishun Avenue 9.
On the same week, a video had gone viral showing a man from a pest control company trying to nudge a snake off a lamp post at Bukit Batok.