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5-Foot Long Python Found After Weeks-Long Search

LONGMONT, Colo. (CBS4) - Animal control officers rounded up a 5-foot-long python over the weekend.

A homeowner spotted the snake on the 700 block of 8th Avenue in a yard and quickly called animal control.

Several weeks before, someone had spotted the same snake slithering under the hood of a car and authorities had been searching it ever since.

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Police say it's likely someone abandoned the snake.

It is now at the Colorado Reptile Humane Society in Longmont and could be up for adoption this weekend.

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