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A 9-foot, 40 pound pet snake named Sophie escaped her cage and escaped out a window. Neighbors were on alert to keep their kids and animals indoors.

A police officer was called to pry a python off of a woman’s arm after the 5-foot pet python sank its teeth into her.

A pet monkey named Zeke escaped and ran around a Florida neighborhood, eating people’s mail and tearing the molding off a police car’s roof.

Police arrived after getting a concerned call were able to distract Zeke with a bottle of water until his owner came and fetched him.

Zeke previously escaped in September, 2012.

Several people from the DeBary neighborhood in Florida have reported sightings of a monkey on the loose. Authorities have no been able to confirm.

Police are trying to track down the owner of an emu that has been spotted wandering around town. The emu has not been caught.

MJ, a 35-year-old orangutan, died at the Milwaukee County Zoo of unknown causes.

A man found a 3-foot alligator in his koi pond believed to be someone’s escaped pet. The animal was taken to a local zoo and the guardian is being sought. It is illegal to own an alligator in MD.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector witnessed a tiger cub bite a woman, “apparently breaking the skin.” Many other problems with the facility were noted in the same inspection report.

Zookeepers exhibited four tiger cubs without any distance or barriers between the animals and the public, and multiple members of the public were scratched and/or bitten. The tiger cubs were repeatedly hit with riding crops.

A 100-pound tortoise is missing since he escaped from the backyard in which he was kept. Although search dogs were called to help track the tortoise, he remains at large.