A family living at a Loyang Townhouse in Changi received a shock this morning when they found a python wrapped around a birdcage housing their pet parrot in their home.
46-year-old roject manager Melvin Yap recounted that he was sound asleep at about 6.30am when he was awoken by screams. He told reporters:
“My wife (had) come back from the night shift, my domestic worker was feeding the bird – both of them didn’t see the snake at first. Then my domestic worker shouted, ‘snake!’ Then after that everybody started screaming.
“I was upstairs sleeping, at first I thought it was a lizard or a cockroach.”
He rushed downstairs and found the large python trying to eat his bird: “It was outside wrapped around my birdcage; it tried to eat my pet bird.”
The family managed to guide the snake into a plastic bag with a spade, before sending the reptile to the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES) this afternoon.
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Mr Yap said that ACRES would most likely release the python back into the wild after microchipping it. He added:
“They were grateful we didn’t kill it. Most of the time, out of fear or ignorance, people can kill (them).”
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