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Travis Treder tried to steal a baby python out of the Animal House Pet Center store by stuffing it down his pants. The owner intervened to recover the snake, and Treder was arrested.

A white ball python fell from a ceiling vent after being loose in Tacoma General Hospital for a month. The owner brought the snake into the hospital in a cat carrier, then lost it.

The snake was given back to the owner.

Animal control and police officers removed six snakes, two alligators, a monitor lizard, and a spider from a home after Jeremy Loveland was admitted to a hospital with a bite from a venomous snake. The animals were owned illegally.

Police said more than two dozen reptiles had previously been removed from Loveland’s home by authorities in 2011 (see https://www.bornfreeusa.org/database/exo_incident.php?id=1651) and 2012 (see https://www.bornfreeusa.org/database/exo_incident.php?id=2395).

A man found a 3-foot-long python in an alleyway and brought it to Animal Control. The snake is not native, and is presumed to have been a pet.

A 5-6 foot long snake, tentatively identified as a non-venomous hog-nose snake by police, was seen in a residential neighborhood. The Department of Natural Resource’s Area Wildlife Supervisor believes it is an escaped pet.

A female Asian elephant named Chandra chased and pushed another female elephant in the same enclosure named Bamboo. Bamboo sustained a 6 inch long, 2 inch wide scrape on the front of her trunk. There have been multiple aggressive incidents between Bamboo and other elephants since she was transferred to Oklahoma City from a zoo in Seattle.

Beaumont Animal Services responded to a call about a large snake inside an apartment, and found a 2-foot long ball python inside the resident’s oven. The snake was removed from the apartment.

Animal services said it is likely this snake escaped from its owner, or that the owner released it into the wild, which is illegal.

A 6-foot-long pet alligator was seized from a home by the Suffolk County SPCA after the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation received a complaint that the animal was being kept illegally on the property. The owner was charged by DEC Officers, and the alligator was transported to a wildlife sanctuary.

Police captured a 5-foot-long boa constrictor, who they believe was previously kept as a pet. The snake was adopted by a new owner.

A pet shop worker named Nathan Allen McClain paid a prostitute with cash from a Girl Scout donation jar and tipped the sex worker for her services with a galago (aka bushbaby) named Gooey. It is against the law to own an exotic animal without a license in Oregon.