Anaconda Found On Edinburg Street !

[mikey4444]

After my experience with a Royal Python 3 weeks ago, I read this on the BBC
News website with mounting alarm :::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-33803305

"The street cleaner coaxed the constrictor snake into a box and took it back to his depot before calling the Scottish SPCA"

He did what ? If it had been me I wouldn't have stopped running until I got to Lands End ! Apparently yellow anacondas need experienced owners as they are temperamental and will bite.

Dear God ! ! !

[bookbinder]

Finding streetwise snakes in Edinburgh must be more common than we think, mikey!

[Grandma_Yiddo]

Read this on BBC News app. Bravo and well done to the man who found him and didn't panic. Staff at SPCA have named the anaconda William and he's recovering.

[mikey4444]

The bloke is considerably braver than me, thats for sure !

[wolf63]

I am not sure if I would be that brave. It doesn't sound if William (big Willy) has been snacking on the wildlife and cats.

Imagine mislaying a snake of that size.

[tamborine]

Cold snakes are quite lethargic.

[Togo]

//Apparently yellow anacondas need experienced owners as they are temperamental and will bite.//

I think they may all be temperamental and liable to bite up there. According to recent owner surveys.

[tamborine]

Are there still no snakes in Ireland?

[agchristie]

Awww! Well the snake certainly can't claim to be 'Billy no mates'!

[Togo]

Just 1 !

[tamborine]

Haha togo

[agchristie]

1 is enough for his salvation!

[Peter Pedant]

yeah i think he deserves a medal ( society of herpetology or something )
to approach a snake that looks nothing like an adder

I did try to pick up an Egyptian something-or-the-other once
and was warned by the labourers how unwise it was ....

[Peter Pedant]

and yes I thought the snake was dead
but it wasnt ....

( a lot of jabbering about telling me how stupid doing that was )

[wolf63]

I know nothing about snakes so went to find out more.
http://www.animalfactguide.com/animal-facts/green-anaconda/

They can get very big and we shouldn't worry as they are not venomous - they will just squeeze you to death.

[steg]

It was probably double the size but shrunk in the cold