A six-foot-long boa constrictor has been discovered dumped on a driveway in Essex.
The snake was left with out heating or water in a glass container by a person who jumped out of his automotive with the reptile earlier than driving off.
The RSPCA mentioned a resident has given them CCTV footage of the person leaving the snake outdoors an handle within the village of Widdingham on 20 August.
Animal rescue officer Enola Evans mentioned: “There’s never any excuse to dump an animal like this. Despite that, she was in a good condition and she is a really beautiful snake with a vivid coloured skin.”
She added she has lately picked up plenty of deserted snakes after they’ve died.
The officer added: “These sort of abandonments could be down to a number of factors such as the cost of living crisis and people not being able to take reptiles with them when they move homes.”
The RSPCA urged people who find themselves struggling to satisfy their animal’s must ask for assist, as an alternative of abandoning them.
It mentioned it has seen a 34 per cent rise within the variety of dumped animals, with 2,047 instances reported to the RSPCA in June in comparison with 1,527 in June 2022.
The boa has been taken to a specialist aquatics and reptile centre in Norfolk.
In May a five-foot-long boa constrictor, often discovered within the dense Amazon rainforest, was spotted slithering through a south London park by a stunned visitor.
The unique pet, believed to have escaped from a neighborhood home, was rescued from the recreation floor in Surbiton by RSPCA Inspector Dale Grant.
The snake, lovingly named Lulu, had pressing vet therapy as a consequence of respiratory points and ulcers in its mouth after it was found on May 12.
Boa constrictors’ diets are composed largely of small mammals like rats and squirrels however are identified to dine on monkeys, pigs and deer of their pure rainforest habitats.
Boas will not be venomous; quite, they kill their prey by constriction, or squeezing, it to demise. Once the prey is useless, the monster reptile, which might develop as much as 13 ft lengthy, swallows it entire.
The RSPCA mentioned unique pets look like rising in recognition and the variety of associated incidents handled by the RSPCA has risen in recent years.
