12/24/2023 0 Comments Baby boa constrictor underwight![]() ![]() “Reptiles, particularly snakes, can be extremely good escape artists and will take the opportunity of a gap in an enclosure door or a loose-fitting lid,” Sanders says.īefore a race in Battersea Park, south-west London, last week, a snake, thought to be a baby boa constrictor, was found by a runner who had gone into the bushes to relieve himself. An RSPCA officer, Jill Sanders, caught it the next evening – it had slithered off and was hiding in the flat. It is thought it escaped from there and somehow made it to Saunders’ flat through the plumbing.Ī few days earlier, a woman in Kensington, west London, woke up to find a 1-metre (3ft) royal python curled up in bed next to her. He called a friend to help deal with it the python was rescued by a nearby exotic pet shop. Stuart Saunders, who is visually impaired, tried to pick up the strange tubular shape on the floor, thinking it was a piece of insulation that had fallen from somewhere, and realised it was a huge snake. Just over a week ago, a 2.4-metre (8ft) python was discovered in a man’s bathroom in Exeter after he heard toiletries and his toothbrush crashing to the floor, and went to investigate. This seems to be turning into the summer of escaped snakes. ![]() Fawbert, who had been on a snake-handling experience day earlier in the year for his birthday (“I quite like snakes”), called the RSPCA, worried that people would be scared and try to kill it. “I just said: ‘Leave it, it’s not a danger to anyone.’” Except to the pigeon, he adds. It was completely without explanation.” A crowd gathered. “I wasn’t scared because it was quite obviously motionless – the bird was halfway down its throat and I thought: ‘There’s no way that snake’s going anywhere.’”Ī couple of other people had stopped, so he asked if anyone knew where it had come from. “If it had been slithering around, I’d be more freaked out because you don’t know what it’s going to do,” says Fawbert, an editor at, who posted a picture of the gruesome scene on Twitter on Saturday. It wasn’t moving, but the head of a pigeon was disappearing within the snake’s coils. Dave Fawbert says he wasn’t alarmed when he came across a boa constrictor on a high street in east London after popping out to buy a loaf of bread. ![]()
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