Why were 29 snakes left in pillowcases in a Sunderland dustbin the day before and the day after Valentine's Day?
The search for a culprit who abandoned 29 valuable snakes in February is continuing, but it's a case that has everyone mystified, reports Chris Stokel-Walker.The evening before Valentine's Day, firefighters working at Farringdon Community Fire Station, a modern, two-storey building in Sunderland, were asked to deal with an unusual incident.
"I didn't mention it to the wife until we were halfway there. I don't think she'd have been happy if she'd known." The RSPCA's inquiries are continuing, hampered by the fact that there wasn't any CCTV footage of the area. Peta, an animal rights campaign group, offered a £2,500 reward for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever left the snakes."It takes a disturbing and dangerous lack of empathy to dump so many animals," said Peta director Elisa Allen.
Chris Newman of the National Centre for Reptile Welfare , based in Tonbridge, Kent, agrees that the sudden appearance of the snakes out of the blue is odd. Hobbyists are a tight-knit community, he says, so one of them should surely have known who the snakes belonged to.
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