{"id":418855,"date":"2026-02-10T23:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418855\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T23:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:24:21","slug":"snake-found-in-lincolnshire-compost-heap-a-year-after-escaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418855\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake found in Lincolnshire compost heap a year after escaping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emma Dormer, from Donington, said her husband found the snake while he was gardening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;I was terrified. I reached out to our local Donington Facebook page and within minutes people put us in touch with Mark, the owner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully [it will be] the last we will see of that!&#8221;, she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gordon-Hill said he recognised the reptile from the photo &#8211; but couldn&#8217;t be sure it belonged to him until he saw it in person. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was this little inkling in my head. I was like &#8211; that&#8217;s exactly the same snake that went missing a year ago, and then when I got there, I was like, yeah, that&#8217;s my snake!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The markings, a deforming on the tail, which I knew was my snake straight away,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added the animal was in good health and believed it must have survived on local wildlife. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Dormer, from Donington, said her husband found the snake while he was gardening. She said: &#8220;I was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-418855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418855","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=418855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}