Police officers were sent on a wild snake chase after being called to a house yesterday (Tuesday).<\/p>\n
Following a fingertip search they pulled out something you wouldn\u2019t normally expect to find filling a hole behind a garden pond – a five-foot-long adult royal python.<\/p>\n
The nonvenomous snake, nicknamed \u2018Monty\u2019 by police and thought to have escaped from a nearby vivarium, was taken from the garden in Boston to Boston Aquatics & Pets on the Cowbridge Business Park, where a member of staff took it under his wing.<\/p>\n
‘Monty’ the escape artist royal python with his rescuer. Image: Lincolnshire Police<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police got in touch with us, and it was just lucky that some of us keep reptiles,\u201d said a worker at the shop who did not wish to be named.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s definitely the first time for us that we\u2019ve had anything like this happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone who says they\u2019re the owner has come forward and we\u2019ll find out on Thursday if it turns out to be right person.\u201d<\/p>\n
Royal pythons, also called ball pythons due them curling up when frightened, are a type of constrictor native to Sub Saharan West and Central Africa, where they slither among grasslands, forests and shrub hunting for birds and small mammals.<\/p>\n
They live in burrows dug out by other animals in the wild, which may explain why Monty decided to head underground.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team answers calls for all sorts of little and large issues,\u201d said a statement from the force. \u201cIf we are on and available we will try to attend.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople mention a snake and all sorts of thoughts go through your mind. Is it a corn snake? A local adder, a non-flappable grass snake or even a more troublesome king cobra.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn’t help when half the snake is down a hole and slithering behind a garden pond.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the older and far braver team members took hold and with a little cold water down it’s ‘neck’, out it popped.<\/p>\n
\u201cA beautiful and very healthy royal python.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police officers were sent on a wild snake chase after being called to a house yesterday (Tuesday). Following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2851,3606,8739,649,90,194,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-130971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-lincs-homepage","11":"tag-quirky","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-syndicate","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}