A SNAKE who provided his owners the slip has actually returned — after residing in their walls for 2 years.
Sidney the corn snake was the size of a boot lace when he disappeared through a fracture in his glass-fronted cage in 2021.
Kiley Mitchell, 50, had actually accepted he was “gone forever” — however was speechless when the now 4ft Sidney wriggled out of a couch at his three-bed home recently.
Shocked engineer Kiley informed The Sun: “I was on vacation in Morocco, having supper.
“My moms and dads were house-sitting and sent me a fuzzy photo of him — stating ‘Look who has turned up’.
“I was dumbstruck. We rest on that couch. It’s like the plotline from a scary film.
“Sidney had actually covered himself around the system inside the couch, had actually plainly not consumed for a while and was truly mad.
“We called in a snake handler who managed to grab him by the head — but he spent a good 30 minutes wrestling like Steve Irwin to get him free.”
Kiley, from Churchover, Warks, purchased safe Sidney from Pets at Home for £30 for his kids Ruben, 18, and Louis, 22, in 2017.
He kept the snake in a glass vivarium, feeding and cleaning him out when a week — and understood it was not uncommon for Sidney to conceal in his bed linen.
But in March 2021, Kiley saw crafty Sidney had actually vanished completely, after not consuming his food.
Kiley said: “We looked all over however corn snakes can survive some truly extremely little spaces and it’s an old house.
“We believed he’d die after a number of months and made peace with the truth we weren’t visiting him once again.
“We had no idea he was still alive — but we think he’s been living in the cavity walls for two years, drinking our cat Jade’s water and feeding on any mice and spiders.”
Kiley has actually because turned over duty of Sidney to his oldest child, who works as a storage facility operator in Derby.
Single Louis said: “We’ve now got moving glass doors on his enclosure which are locked from the exterior.
“I examine them every night — a minimum of 3 times — prior to I go to sleep.
“We’re just really happy to have him back.”
