{"id":788640,"date":"2026-10-01T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788640\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:58:11","slug":"peterborough-pet-python-found-weeks-after-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788640\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterborough pet python found weeks after escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the four-year-old snake&#8217;s whereabouts since her disappearance were unclear, with a trail found after she went missing suggesting she left the house and turned left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the neighbouring garden where his pet was found was to the right of his home, he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ball pythons should be kept in enclosures with hot and cool zones, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspca.org.uk\/adviceandwelfare\/pets\/other\/royalpython\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the RSPCA, external<\/a>, which says ideal temperatures are between 24-32C (75-90F).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards, who has kept snakes since he was 13, said Xanthe&#8217;s enclosure was normally heated to a maximum of about 32C, far warmer than it has been outside in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With the weather conditions, I did not think she would survive,&#8221; he admitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The snake keeper said a vet had since diagnosed Xanthe with septicaemia \u2013 a life-threatening bacterial infection of the blood \u2013 and prescribed her painkillers and antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She beat all the odds outside so I&#8217;m really hoping she can beat the odds with this as well,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Peterborough? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said the four-year-old snake&#8217;s whereabouts since her disappearance were unclear, with a trail found after she went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788640","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=788640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}