This is the terrifying moment a mother found a 10ft long python hiding under her son’s bed - after it killed the family cat. <br /><br />Thanapoom Lekyen, 42, said the serpent slithered into the home through a window last Thursday night in Chaochoengsao, Thailand. <br /><br />She found the dead kitten outside below the window ledge - then ran from the room in terror when she saw shiny scales under the mattress. <br /><br />Miraculously, her son Nong, 13, who normally sleeps in the room had fallen asleep in her bedroom the evening before - narrowly avoiding being eaten by the snake.<br /><br />Hair-raising footage shows rescuers arrive and carefully capture the angry snake which puts up a fight - biting the animal handler.<br /><br />Relieved Thanapoom said: ‘’I woke up in the morning and saw the dead cat outside with bite marks on it. Then I knew there was a problem and I shivered and my stomach was feeling sick. I was scared. <br /><br />‘’I looked in my son’s bedroom and screamed when I saw something moving under the bed. <br /><br />‘’I think about what might have happened and cry. My son was very lucky because he did not sleep in the room that night. <br /><br />''There must have been some guardian angel watching over him. He fell asleep with me and I decided to let him stay in that room instead of go to his normal room. <br /><br />‘’The snake came in through his window. If he was sleeping in the bed, he’s only small and it could have killed him.’'<br /><br />Nattapon Boonmee from the Chachoengsao Voluntary Rescue arrived on Saturday morning at 7.30am and spent 15 minutes using a pole and lasso to catch the snake. <br /><br />The serpent even bit his hand with it’s razor sharp fangs as he battled to subdue it outside the room. <br /><br />He said: ‘’The snake was average size but very, very aggressive. My hand was bleeding from where it bit me just a little bit. <br /><br />‘’A more powerful bite would be very, very dangerous.’’<br /><br />Rescuers eventually put the snake inside a canvas bag and released it back into the wild unharmed.
