Missing snake hides in boiler - Pet insurance

Posted : 21-05-2008

A pet snake which has been missing for half a year has been returned to her owner - after hiding in plumbing, it has been reported.

Sparkle, a corn snake, escaped from her vivarium in eight-year-old Madison Blowers' house in Southsea six months ago, according to the Portsmouth News.

Earlier this year, the four-foot reptile was spotted in the boiler of neighbour Rachel Arscott, leading her to make an "almost hysterical" call to a pest control expert.

Madison was reunited with her slithery pet, after her mother saw a report about the incident in the local press.

Ms Blowers told the newspaper: "I couldn't believe it when we saw her again - it's just mad. I really thought she would have died in the cold."

"She must have been living on mice and rats below the floorboards."

According to cornsnake.co.uk, orange snakes are pleasant-natured animals and are commonly found beneath logs, rocks and loose bark … and in central heating, apparently.

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