Noah and Connor Barthe, 4 and 6, were sleeping when an African rock python in a nearby room escaped its cage through a small hole in the ceiling It slithered through a ventilation shaft in its glass ...

A pet shop owner has survived an attack by a deadly, 20ft python after police wrestled the snake back into its cage. Terry Wilkins was cleaning the reptile's cage at his store in Newport, Kentucky, on ...

A professional snake catcher intercepted a close call, removing a coastal carpet python that he found inches away from a pet bird, In a Facebook post, Stuart McKenzie, a professional snake catcher ...

One woman, who didn't want to be identified, took a photo of a large python that had eaten her son's lorikeet. They had woken in the morning to find the snake inside the birdcage and unable to get out ...

It's very, very unusual and very tragic and difficult for everyone involved. Brothers Connor and Noah Barth, aged five and seven, were visiting the apartment of a friend above Reptile Ocean Inc., an ...

A snake thief has been caught on surveillance cameras stealing a python and putting the reptile in his pants. The man went into A to Z pet store in Portland, Oregon and walked over to the snake cage, ...

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A pet parrot in Singapore has been rescued from the jaws of death, after its owners discovered a huge python coiled around their bird's cage. The 1.5m long (5ft) snake was found on Monday in Melvin ...

A pet parrot in Singapore has been rescued from the jaws of death, after its owners discovered a huge python coiled around their bird's cage. The 1.5m long (5ft) snake was found on Monday in Melvin ...