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A 3-feet long pet ball python bit a four-year old child on the chest while she was playing with the snake. The family decapitated the snake to get it off of the child. One snake tooth was stuck on the skin. Beside the python involved in this incident, the family own three other pythons and two corn snakes.

A teenage boy in Oklahoma wrested and caught an alligator believed to be a former pet. The teen plans to keep the alligator.

A 6-foot long red tail boa constrictor was found wrapped around a work van’s bumper. No one has come forward to claim the snake and is thought to have been dumped by it’s owner. Animal control officers and a deputy came out to collect the animal without incident.

A python appeared on a neighborhood yard and has taken up residence. The homeowner called several agencies, but was told the snake would not be picked up unless it was a venomous. They have put out a Craig’s List ad in hopes a snake enthusiast will respond. The snake is believed to be a former pet.

A missing 11-foot Burmese python that came up missing and believed to be stolen has been found dead. The snake was found in a dumpster behind a business.

A six-foot snake was found embedded in a work van’s bumper. County Animal Control officials responded to the scene and called a sheriff’s deputy who is an avid snake lover. The snake is believed to be a former pet and was taken to the Southeast Reptile Rescue Center in Griffin.

A 10-foot Burmese python that had been missing for over a month was found alive in the owner’s yard.

A 9-year old macaque owned as a pet was shot and killed after he attacked his owner. The macaque escaped from the home and when his owner tried to catch him with a net, the macaque attacked – biting him in the butt & thigh and tearing apart his right hand severing tendons. The owners friend shot the macaque to stop the attack.

A man tried boarding his flight back home to Brazil from Orlando with 27 snakes hidden in his checked-in luggage. The man is being held by order of the U.S. Marshals.

A sea lion named Bismarck, who was missing his back flippers, died at the Denver Zoo while he was under anesthesia for surgery. He was found in 2008 a an orphaned pup missing his front flippers and transferred to the Denver Zoo in 2009.