Imagine going to a pet store with your dog to buy dog food, and you notice another pet owner in the store with a snake around their neck. Would you figure that was reasonable since the store allows ...

A Rhode Island woman woke up to an atypical intruder in her home one evening. It wasn't a burglar, but a pet snake that a previous resident had lost months earlier. "It's something you just don't wake ...

A 12-foot python has been returned to its owner after a slithery stop at a Central Texas home where a woman earlier bathed her pet guinea pigs. The Eagle newspaper reported Tuesday that Veronica ...

Henny is a 3-year-old yellow belly/ball Python mix who got out of her cage and was missing for weeks. She finally turned up at an In-N-Out Burger joint 50 miles from her home in San Bernardino, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A Springfield woman is facing charges after she allegedly illegally entered the same residence two days in a row, claimed she lived there and threw a pet snake into the yard during ...

It seems humans aren’t the only fans of In-N-Out. Someone’s pet python appeared to have escaped its home and slithered all the way to the restaurant in Monrovia. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7 ...

AUSTRALIA -- Veterinarians in Australia pulled a beach towel out of a pet snake. Monty is an 18-year-old jungle carpet python. Her family said she ate an entire towel one night. Once the family ...

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