A massive exotic python with a swollen belly was discovered under the floor of a New Jersey family\u2019s shed \u2014 with an X-ray revealing its gluttonous last meal. <\/p>\n
Leslie Daley spotted the terrifying reptile slithering through her Freehold backyard as she was watering flowers, her husband, Ed, told WABC<\/a>. <\/p>\n A massive python with a swollen belly was found under a Freehold, New Jersey family\u2019s shed. Monmouth County SPCA\u00bf<\/p>\n The Daleys then noticed the snake \u2014 identified as a roughly 8-foot-long Burmese Python \u2014 had crawled through a hole and taken shelter underneath the floor of their shed. <\/p>\n The family hurriedly called the officials with the Monmouth County SPCA, who removed the shed\u2019s floorboards with the help of a local contractor.<\/p>\n Wild video showed the sprawling python, with a large bulge at the center of its body, being carefully plucked from its unusual home by animal control officers.<\/p>\n An X-ray revealed the Burmese python devoured an opossum before it was captured. Monmouth County SPCA\u00bf<\/p>\n Burmese pythons are indigenous to Southeast Asia, not native to\u00a0New Jersey\u00a0or the US Northeast, animal experts said. The exotic snakes, however, can be owned in New Jersey with a permit, NBC New York reported. <\/a><\/p>\n