20″ Python Found In New Home By Residents
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AP – Police in the central Idaho town of Hailey say a 20-inch python found by residents who had just moved into a home has been turned over to an animal shelter.
Pam Roan of the Sawtooth Animal Clinic says the snake is a ball python that is likely somebody’s escaped pet.
Hailey Police Sgt. Derek Stewart tells the Idaho Mountain Express that the home’s residents found the python trapped in a small patio area between a screen door and main door.
Stewart says three officers responded to the call late on Monday and that one of them caught the python and put it in a bag.
Stewart says it’s his first time in a decade of police work that he’s participated in a python capture.