Seized N.S. python was in good shape, wildlife official says
Posted Aug 21, 2013 05:42:32 PM.
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YARMOUTH, N.S. – The Nova Scotia government says the person who owned a huge python that was seized earlier this week in Yarmouth County co-operated with conservation officers, who noted the 5.4-metre reptile was is very good shape.
Bob Petrie, director of wildlife at the Natural Resources Department, says the four-year-old reticulated python was found in a secure enclosure in the basement of a home.
But he declined to say where the home is or where the snake was taken because officers have yet to complete their investigation.
Petrie says he didn’t know how long the investigation would take or whether charges would be laid.
The find in Nova Scotia followed similar seizures in British Columbia and Ontario.
Earlier this month, two young brothers sleeping in an apartment in Campbellton, N.B., were killed by an illegal African rock python that had escaped from its enclosure.
