16-foot albino python caught after wandering Texas neighborhood for months, photos show

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN -- A massive white and yellow snake seen slithering around a Texas neighborhood for months has finally been wrangled, photos show.

The 16-foot albino reticulated python is hard to miss, like an extremely long banana slithering through the grass and along the sidewalks of the Coronado Hills neighborhood in northeast Austin.

When the Austin Animal Center received a call on Monday, Dec. 19, from residents describing a huge, pink-eyed snake they had caught and were keeping at their home, wildlife workers assumed the details were a bit exaggerated, the center said in a Facebook post.

“We get it! Spotting a nope rope in the wild can be scary,” the post said. “But when Officer Moorman arrived to the residence, he was indeed greeted by an unhappy 16 ft long albino reticulated python.”

Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article270330717.html

There's still no word about the king cobra that is slithering somewhere around the Metroplex.


An albino reticulated python was recently captured in an Austin, Texas, neighborhood after roaming the area for months. Austin Animal Center.

[Paladin]

1. So glad they collected this specimen, prior to the Godawful cold weather setting in.

Now---if they'll just keep it out of my neighborhood...

[TexasTowelie]

2. I must admit that a python is not my idea of an ideal neighbor. nt

[Paladin]

3. And it sure as hell isn't a native species.

It was somebody's pet or property. And that somebody allowed it to escape, either accidentally or on purpose. Somebody deserves an ass-kicking.

[TexasTowelie]

4. The story stated that the snake was in a duffel bag that was left in a vehicle

of someone visiting Austin. The vehicle was stolen and apparently the thief had a surprise waiting when they opened the duffel bag.

[Paladin]

5. Even if true, the circumstances stink.

These people and their big snake "pets." Ridiculous.

[LeftInTX]

6. OMG!

[Chainfire]

7. And the mystery of the disappearing cats is solved.