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March 28 (UPI) --A professional snake catcher in Australia was called out to a home where a pet bird had a close call with a coastal carpet python that squeezed its head into the avian's cage. Stuart ...

Snake season sneaks up fast. As temperatures climb, snakes that have been dormant all winter start moving again, into yards, ...

A large python that turned up at a Los Angeles County In-N-Out drive-thru this week has reportedly been reunited with its owners more than 40 miles away in San Bernardino County. Workers at the ...

Nov. 8 (UPI) --A large ball python found slithering in the parking lot of a Chili's restaurant in North Carolina turned out to have been an escaped pet missing for two months. The Shallotte Police ...

The Shallotte Police Department removed the ball python from the lot and helped reunite the pet with its owner Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A pet snake that’s been lost for nearly two months was found in the parking lot of Chili’s in Shallotte. The four-foot-long ball python named Una belongs to Christen Schiel.

Somerville’s animal control department received reports of a python on the loose Saturday, sparking an unusual neighborhood search for the slithery creature. Its last seen location was on Taylor ...