Missing snake on lam for year reappears when crow drops it on British garage — on April Fool’s Day
Ssss-urprise!
A pet snake that was missing for more than a year serendipitously turned up Monday after a crow dropped it on the roof of a British garage.
A homeowner first spotted the three-foot-long corn snake in her garden and called for the local Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals unit to rescue the lost serpent.
The tan-colored reptile vanished, however, by the time the animal wrangled arrived — only to turn up on the roof of a nearby garage.
“We suspect that a crow had given the snake a not-so-helpful ‘leg-up’, but thankfully we were able to come to her aid,” the RSPCA said in a Facebook post, emphasizing that the incredible tale was no April Fool’s Day joke.
It turns out that the snake was actually a pet named Agnes who had escaped from her home more than a year earlier.
Somehow, the scrappy serpent had not only fended for herself for over 12 months — but made it through a brutally cold winter.
“She was found to have a respiratory infection from being outside in the cold, but it’s a miracle that she survived at all after so long,” said the RSPCA.
Agnes has since recovered from her illness and now is on the hunt for a new home — and has plenty of suitors pining to call her theirs.
