June 27 (UPI) — Animal rescuers on Prince Edward Island, Canada, care for a snake found in an unusual place: in the trash.
Staff at the PEI Humane Society reported that cleaners came across the approximately 90 centimeter long king python while emptying a dumpster in Charlottetown’s East Royalty neighborhood.
“The staff thought it was really funny. You don’t see a snake that runs away very often, but it’s entirely possible that the snake escaped from their enclosure or their home and jumped into a garbage bag. It’s also possible that the snake was abandoned,” Ashley Travis, the shelter’s development and communications coordinator, told CBC News.
Travis said ball pythons, native to Africa, can live up to 30 years and are popular pets.
The shelter is trying to locate the snake’s owner and determine whether the reptile escaped or was abandoned.
Travis said shelter officials are considering naming the python Pepsi in honor of the empty cardboard box that has become her temporary home at the Humane Society.
