Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007
COVINA - A 6-foot-long albino python gave owners and customers a scare when it briefly escaped from a unit at a Covina self-storage lot early Thursday.
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Quality Self-Storage on the 200 block of East Arrow Highway, said manager Julie Lewis. Maintenance workers were able to corner the animal in a hallway with a cardboard barrier until animal control officials arrived to take it away.
Lewis and her employees determined the snake had broken out of a terrarium in an abandoned storage unit.
"That poor animal had been in that dark hole by itself with no food since Sept. 24," she said.
Animal control officials said the snake will be put up for adoption and will not be returned to its owners.
COVINA - A 6-foot-long albino python gave owners and customers a scare when it briefly escaped from a unit at a Covina self-storage lot early Thursday.
Employees first noticed the snake inching its way along a wall at about 9 a.m. at
Quality Self-Storage on the 200 block of East Arrow Highway, said manager Julie Lewis. Maintenance workers were able to corner the animal in a hallway with a cardboard barrier until animal control officials arrived to take it away. Lewis and her employees determined the snake had broken out of a terrarium in an abandoned storage unit.
"That poor animal had been in that dark hole by itself with no food since Sept. 24," she said.
Animal control officials said the snake will be put up for adoption and will not be returned to its owners.