Kitchener-Waterloo Humane Society still seeking escaped python's owner

The mystery surrounding a snake that may or may not have gone missing from its owner's home continues as the Kitchener-Waterloo Humane Society also searches for a conversation with the snake's owner.

"We still haven't talked with the owner to verify the snake is in the house," Kathy Innocente,the society's director of operations,told CBC News.

On July 26, a two meter long snake reported by CBC News as a possible Burmese python, a type of constrictor snake, but by other media outlets as a boa constrictor was reported missing from a residence near Mill Street and Courtland Avenue area of Kitchener.

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Staff from the humane society spoke with someone in the residence on Wednesday who confirmed the snake went missing. It was not believed to be dangerous to people, but may have preyed on rodents like mice and squirrels.

'Still trying to speak with the owner directly'

But two days after the snake reportedly went missing and following an unconfirmed sighting of it under a bush, a woman told a Hamilton television station that the snake the humane society was looking for was her pet, and it wasn't missing.

"He's in my house, he's coiled under my fridge," Miranda Beechy told CHCH, identifying the snake as a two metre long boa constrictor named Darko.

Innocente said more than a week later, they are still working to confirm with Beechythat the snake she told the television station about is the same one previously reported missing and at large.

"We will continue to respond to any sightings of the snake; we have received only one early last week and nothing since," Innocente said. "We are still trying to speak with the owner directly and will continue to do so."