The woman and granddaughter were scared to see a 9-foot Boa Constrictor in the yard.
When Cindy Schmitz heard the screams of her neighbor, she remembered relaxing at her home in Derby, NY.
"I didn't know what was going on. I ran around the house and was there. Snakes," she toldWKBW-TV. "I was scared at first. I had never seen anything like that."
The Boa Constrictor is usually native to Latin America, but somehow ended up in her vestibule. ..
When Schmitz and her neighbor tried to strangle thesnake, she called the Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).
Responder and Animal Rescue Investigator Jennifer Mareskis arrives at the scene, saying: "Wow!"
Mareskey assumes that the snake is a former pet released into the wild.
"The process of" dumping "or releasing exotic pets and animals into the wild after a period of domestication is fairly common in western New York. However, animals are usually set to fail. Do they hurt themselves ... or in this case they can hurt you, "she said.
"I don't know exactly how this happened, but investigations will be done. Dumping is difficult to prove, but it can pose a real danger. , This includes punishment. "
According to WKBW-TV, the snake is in one of the facilities of SPCA in Erie County and is" currently ready for adoption or claim. " "apparently.
