Posted on 01/04/2017 7:39:10 PM PST by Rebelbase
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Animal Control Officers in Arlington received a big surprise last week while responding to a snake call inside an apartment bathroom – Anaconda big!
Arlington County Animal Control said they received a call for a snake inside an apartment toilet, something that isn’t that unusual.
However, this wasn’t just any snake, it was a juvenile yellow anaconda that was nearly 5 feet long.
On a yellow anaconda scale, that is actually quite small. Fully grown yellow anacondas can be up to 13 feet long and over 100 pounds.
Officials say Officer Brenys White was able to safely remove the snake from the toilet and bring it back to the shelter, where staff got quite the surprise.
The yellow anaconda stayed at the shelter for a few days until they were able to find a specialist familiar with the species who could give him the care that he needed.
“They need specialized care and housing, and while they are non-venomous, can be dangerous when they reach full size and are not well-socialized,” the Animal Welfare League of Arlington wrote on its Facebook page.
The shelter is still investigating how the snake got inside the toilet, but say it was likely abandoned and went into the toilet seeking food like rats and mice.
“We highly encourage anyone thinking about having a snake as a pet to do extremely thorough research to determine whether they will be able to adequately care for their snake,” the shelter added.
A Possum (Marsupial). It has a pouch for its young like a Kangaroo.
Numerous people have reported finding possums in their toilets...
These guys can crawl up the pipes the same way a rat or squirrel can, making rodents the most likely animals to wind up in your toilets.
http://orzzzz.com/top-9-strangest-creatures-that-might-show-up-in-your-toilet.html
Re: “These guys can crawl up the pipes the same way a rat or squirrel can, making rodents the most likely animals to wind up in your toilets.”
The person who wrote this apparently didn’t know that a Possum isn’t a Rodent. It’s a Marsupial.
Head count...not one of mine.
;D
Where did it come from?
We do not not have them this far north.
Weird!
Or a deadly RattleMoccaCopperCobra.
;D
I grew up in Arlington and the only snakes in toilets I ever heard about were the ones that plumbers used.
Snakes need water and they’re *all* excellent swimmers.
Odds are it ended up there after hunting the sewers for rats.
Anacondas are usually kept in semi-aquatic vivariums.
I’m pleased that they gave it proper care rather than freaking out and killing it.
What the hell is that in the last photo??
A kangaroo?
It won’t want none unless you got buns, hon.
I once saw a water moccasin swimming up a run in Arlington- at least that’s what everyone who saw it thought it was, and it certainly was pretty big- but unlike Buffalo I wasn’t inclined to grab it for a closer look.
More likely a brown water snake.
Cottonmouth’s most northerly range is southern VA.
As a kid, I used to go to Coles Point VA in the summer and they had a long pontoon bridge over an awesome swamp.
I’d ride my bike over it and the bridge would sink a foot into the murky water and snakes would swim past my feet.
Morons camping there kept slaughtering the harmless brown water snakes, thinking they were Cottons.
That may be where I developed a loathing for snake cruelty.
Where I worked in Wichita Falls Texas (horrible place) there was a snake in the shop toilet. I think it was a rat snake then it just swam on back the same way it got in there.
Coulda been that. I suppose a Copperhead is another possibility. Arlington appears to be in their normal range whereas it’s too far north for Moccasins.
Coppers look nothing like Cottons.
If the onlookers were screaming Cotton, it was a water snake.
:)
My dad was a snake-o-phobe without equal.
He stocked the pond above me with bluegills, sunnies and catfish, and naturally, the water snakes came to feast.
One day, after a heavy rain, the pond overflowed into the dry run beside my lane and a water snake was displaced by the overflow.
I knew dad would be down from the ridge at any moment, so I spent 15 minutes, nonchalantly escorting the snake [and encouraging haste] down the stream until it reach the confluence at the end of the lane and made it to the culvert which went to the lake across the road.
A minute later, dad drove up and asked why I was standing in the road, for no apparent reason.
:)
Would the term “Holy Sh!t” be inappropriate?
RLTW
“small” anaconda = “little” pregnant
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