Couple stunned after missing pet snake Mikey turns up SIX MONTHS later outside their old front door
11.05.2022 - 20:47
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A Stockport couple whose snake went missing in neighbouring Manchester were left gobsmacked after he was found SIX MONTHS later - completely unharmed. Jasmine and Jo, who lived in Fallowfield until December 2021, originally adopted Mikey the corn snake, 16, from Jo’s parents just over a year ago.
The sneaky serpent slithered through a small hole at the back of some bathroom pipes after the couple tried to bathe him to ease his constipation in November 2021 - and, after, consulting local exotic pet shops, they sadly assumed they would never see him again.
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“He got pretty constipated, which is a weird thing to say, but he wasn't eating amazingly so we gave him a bath because that tends to help things along with snakes and also he seems to really enjoy them,” Jasmine told the Manchester Evening News .
“So we just filled up a tub with some lukewarm water and popped him in, but for some reason he just really didn't like it. Immediately he zoomed off around the bathroom.”
Mikey then wrapped himself around some pipes behind the bathroom sink, where he wouldn’t budge.
“We thought, 'it’s okay, he’ll have to come down at some point, we'll just wait until he relaxes a bit and then pop him back in the tank because he's a very strong boy'. He's pretty much harmless to humans, but you can't unwind him from something. Once he's decided that’s where he is, he wants to hold on,” Jasmine said.
The couple were unaware that what appeared to be a tiny hole next to the pipes was in fact the perfect size for an escaping snake.
“By the time we realised what was happening, we couldn't actually get him back up. So we obviously panicked,” she said.
The hole led directly to the basement,