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A Cincinnati family found a 14-foot, 120 pound reticulated python in their backyard. It was turned into the local SPCA.

A baby giraffe at the Virginia Zoo dies overnight of peritonitis.

The town advisory board turned down Record Producer Jamal Rashid’s application for 2 serval cats and a capuchin monkey after 2 escapes by the serval cats.

The MO Dept of Conservation is looking for the owner of a nearly 8-ft red tail boa constrictor found in a yard of a home.

An employee at a Pennsylvania animal park suffered a severe arm injury after being attacked by a 450 pound Bengal tiger. Officials said she climbed over the fence, walked in between the tiger cageI, and was bitten when she reached in to pet the tigers.

People in an Albany neighborhood have sited a 6-7 foot python on the loose. Although authories were called, it could not be located.

A couple came forward after the story aired and claimed the albino Burmese python named Sunshine was their son’s, who had escaped form it’s cage in the garage.

A 4-inch wide, 50 lb pet boa constrictor went missing and was located using thermal imaging. Police are still investigating the incident.

An anteater escaped from a private breeder and was found by a man, on the side of the road limping, who took it home and tracked down the owner. The breeder didn’t know the anteater was missing.

A man had to be rushed to the hospital after authorities say he was bitten by his pet snake, a European Long Nose Viper. When authorities seized his pets, they discovered 60 snakes and lizards inside his home. Some of the species were so rare that officials had to send them to experts to be identified-most were venemous. A number of dead reptiles were also recovered. The man was keeping the reptiles illegally.

Authorities shot and killed a pet monkey after it escaped and attacked a woman and a sheriff’s deputy. The woman had to be hospitalized for her injuries. Four other monkeys, 2 Java macaques and 2 Rhesus macaques, were found living in deplorable conditions in the owner’s home and were rescued.