An 'unhappy' 1.8-metre albino reticulated python was rescued by an animal shelter in Austin, Texas on Monday - after being missing for months. 9News
Often callers exaggerate the size of snakes when calling the shelter, in this case the python was just as big as the callers thought.
Residents said they had been seeing the massive snake in the neighbourhood since July, according to the Facebook post. The shelter put the snake in temporary overnight housing, then asked the Austin Zoo to provide "more appropriate" housing for the time being. In the meantime, shelter staff members recalled a social media post they'd seen months previously about a missing python. Some sleuthing led them to a post on community app Nextdoor, which included information about the owner of the python.
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