Ms Pringle has been familiar with the handling of reptiles since she was a young girl, when her father also kept pet snakes and became an experienced handler.

“We have family photos of me petting a lizard when I was about three,” she said.

Ms Pringle owns two stimson pythons, two jungle carpet pythons, and one each of a Darwin carpet python, woma python and small blotched python.

Although Ms Pringle’s snakes don’t react to arrival home from work with the exuberance of a pet dog who recognises its beloved owner, they do have their own individual personalities.

“They absolutely are all different, and while they don’t necessarily react to seeing me, they all have their own way of reacting to different situations,” she said.

And does she have to warn friends who are visiting before they go into her bedrooms where the snakes are kept?

“There are some friends who just don’t go into my room, but others want to come over especially so they can have the experience of seeing the snakes,” Ms Pringle said.

Ms Pringle said before she acquired her first snake last year she thoroughly researched all she could about snakes, and put that together with the many years of living in a household with snakes that her father owned.

Whenever possible Ms Pringle said she takes the snakes out for a walk.

“I wrap them around me as I’m going round the house.

“Or a take them out on the grass to lie in the sun, which they really like,” she said.

“I just feel so comfortable with them - I suppose because I’ve grown up with them.”