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29 March 2024

Woman finds 12-foot python in bathtub

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A Texas mother, Veronica Rodriguez, going about her day and doing her routine chores, got a surprise in the form of a 12-foot-long African python that snuck into her bathroom.

Veronica was bathing her daughter's pet guinea pigs, and, afterwards, would take them outside to run around in a pen while she cleaned their cage.

It's most likely that the python made entry into Rodriguez's home through the back door, but when exactly the creature slithered in is an uncomfortable unknown for the 50-year-old single mother of a high school senior.

A few hours later, around 9:00 p.m., Veronica heard noises and checked the bedrooms and found nothing.

Yahoo News reported that, Rodriguez thought one of her three pet guinea pigs was making the noises. She opened the bathroom door, flipped on the light and saw the African python slithering into her bathtub.

"As soon as I turned on the light, that's when I saw it," Rodriguez said.

Immediately, she slammed the door and ran outside. While her mother called Rodriguez's brother to see if he could go help, Rodriguez said she called 911 and soon College Station officer Tony Gonzales arrived.

The officer showed up with a brown paper sack. She recalled, "I told him, 'you're going to need a bigger sack than that.'"

Gonzales, who's been with the police department about five years, said he'd previously responded to three snake calls, but nothing like that.

He asked dispatchers to send animal control officers. Shortly afterward, another College Station officer arrived, also armed with a paper bag, and soon the animal control officer showed up with a 10-gallon bucket.

No one believed me that the snake was that big.

The three officers settled on a city trash can as a temporary shelter for the creature, but getting it into the container was a struggle.

Once inside the container, the snake was properly secured and left on the side of the home until animal control picked it up in the morning.

Gonzales said the snake was initially transported to a reptile rescue facility, but had since been claimed and returned to its owner.