The owner of a three-metre-long python that slithered into a home and gave a Midland family quite the scare last week has been charged.
The Leck family discovered the python in their living room after returning home last Monday night.
Rachel Leck and her ten-year-old Xavier found were about to watch TV when they found the snake dangling on the couch.
“I jumped up, grabbed my kid and ran out the house screaming,” Rachel told CTV Barrie's K.C. Colby last week.
Midland Police and Huronia Animal Control were called to safely remove the three-metre-long snake. Police say the python somehow got inside the home and coiled itself up under a shelf in the living room.
The snake was safely captured and removed, but not before it managed to slither out of reach underneath the couch.
It’s illegal to have exotic pets as such under the Town of Midland bylaw.
Insp. Ron Wheeldon of Midland police says a 22-year-old man has been charged under a local bylaw on pet ownership which carries a fine of $100.
Wheeldon refused to identify the man, but said he lived about 1 1/2 blocks away from the home where the snake was captured.
Midland Animal Control Officer Randy Bidan says the python will go to a licensed zoo facility in the Simcoe County area.
-With files from The Canadian Press
