INDIVIDUALS in Schull are being asked to keep their eyes peeled for a 4ft corn or rat snake after a shedded skin was discovered on a walkway at Ardmanagh.
Tory Joyce, a main fundraising event with the West Cork Animal Welfare Group, verified that the skin, discovered in the town on Tuesday, is genuine.
How it arrived, she assumed, might be down to a practical joke, the escape or release of an unique family pet, or the unintentional loss of the shedded skin.
She said the individual who discovered it, on their method home from work, thinks it may have even been longer since it may have diminished in Tuesday’s blazing sunlight.
‘This is a first for us,’ said Tory, who would have issues if there is undoubtedly a snake on the loose.
‘They don’t make it through in the winter exterior. Even in this weather condition,’ she said, ‘they would struggle. If it is on the loose, it would, ideally, need to be captured and put in a suitable environment.’
Tory said she has actually become aware of great deals of occurrences where corn or rat snakes have actually been disposed in the wild since they get too huge for their owners to preserve.
The animal well-being employee interested individuals to ‘think again’ when thinking about buying unique animals as animals.
