"I was rinsing out the rat blankets and a blanket fell down, and he was there all wrapped around the blanket," Tedesco told WOFL-TV.
"He was trying to eat the blanket. He had the blanket totally in his mouth," Tedesco told WESH-TV. "It was really gross."
She said the python apparently wanted to make a meal out of Princess.
"It would be a good meal, but I think Princess might win, though. She's nippy, and she bites and she's real moody," Tedesco said.
Tedesco called police and a Brevard County Animal Control officer responded to the home and captured the snake.
"A lot of times, it's a person's pet that gets loose and ends up in someone's backyard. It's obviously a non-indigenous snake," Cocoa Police Lt. Mike Dellatorre said.
The incident marked the third time a ball python was discovered inside a Florida home in recent days. An Orlando man found a python coiled up on the floor of his pantry Tuesday, and days earlier a Pembroke Pines man found a python attempting to attack his dog in his garage.
