An electrician was called out to an odd job on Monday afternoon after a family spotted a python, which had eaten the family cat, curled up under their north Queensland home.

BME Electrical Services electrician Brydie Maro was on her way home from a job when she got a call from one of her regular customers at Mossman.

“I have removed snakes from her switchboard before and so she called me up and said ‘Hey we have this snake under the house and it has actually eaten the family cat,’” she said.

The electrician, who had previously worked as a wildlife handler in New South Wales for 15 years, said she was shocked when she saw the size of the scrub python.