{"id":326418,"date":"2025-12-20T12:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326418\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T12:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:17:16","slug":"renter-moves-into-apartment-and-finds-huge-scaly-visitor-hiding-in-stove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326418\/","title":{"rendered":"Renter Moves Into Apartment And Finds Huge, Scaly Visitor Hiding In Stove"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late last month, a tenant in Houston County, Georgia, jumped when they noticed someone large and scaly living in their stove.<\/p>\n

The shocked renter quickly called their management company and told them the news. Management personnel knew they needed an expert, so they contacted James Dowling of Houston County Georgia Snake Removal & Relocation<\/a> for help.<\/p>\n

Dowling took his time as he examined each part of the stove, starting with the back access panel and working his way around. Finally, Dowling found the animal nestled at the top of the machine.<\/p>\n

\u201c[A] big ol\u2019 snake had found itself the coziest little spot right under the burners,\u201d Middle Ga Handyman<\/a> wrote in a Facebook post about the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The rescuer had seen snakes hidden in stoves before, but they\u2019re usually closer to the bottom, near the floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pretty surprised when we opened up the top and found it,\u201d Dowling told The Dodo.<\/p>\n

\"manFacebook\/Middle Ga Handyman<\/p>\n

The snake was a ball python who\u2019d likely escaped his enclosure and been abandoned by his previous family. Ball pythons are not venomous, so Dowling didn\u2019t have to worry as he gently plucked the snake out from the stove and moved him into a carrier.<\/p>\n

The rescuer took the snake back to his house, examined him for injuries and eventually found him a suitable home where he could live out the rest of his life in comfort.<\/p>\n

\"manFacebook\/Middle Ga Handyman<\/p>\n

In the end, Dowling was glad that everything turned out for the best.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a good feeling to know that the new tenant could start enjoying her new place without worries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"Ke<\/a>Ke Huy Quan Goes On A Dream Date With A Dog \u2014 And A SnakeIt was quite the experience!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late last month, a tenant in Houston County, Georgia, jumped when they noticed someone large and scaly living…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5441,5439,1397,5477,127985,90,5438,5436,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-326418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal-encounters","tag-daily-dodo","tag-environment","tag-maeve-dunigan","tag-python-snake","tag-science","tag-standard","tag-the-dodo","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326418","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=326418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}