Giant python reunited with owner after months roaming Austin (BBC)

By Madeline Halpert
BBC News, New York

A 16-foot (4.8-meter) python has been reunited with its owner after months wandering a Texas neighbourhood and spooking residents.

Earlier this week, Austin Animal Center said it got a call about a "giant python" after residents captured the creature in their garage.

That snake turned out to be Snow, an albino reticulated python who went missing this summer.

The rescue was "one of our best stories yet", the shelter said.

An officer with the Austin Animal Center went to examine the snake, which had been more easily captured due to being lethargic from the recent cold temperatures in the state.

He learned that people in the neighbourhood had been spotting the python in the area since July, the rescue centre wrote in a Facebook post.
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