Reticulated python swallows 6kg pet cat in Tanah Merah condominium

SINGAPORE – A reticulated python swallowed a 6kg pet cat roaming the condominium compound of its proprietor’s home in Tanah Merah.

Instructor Angel Low, 28, feared the worst when her cat, Ben, didn’t return house on Monday night time, after she learnt {that a} reticulated python with a bulging stomach had been caught earlier that day.

“Ben often comes again when my mum calls him. We suspected that one thing was incorrect once we noticed the python’s stomach in a video shared by different residents and instantly contacted the Animal Considerations Analysis and Training Society (Acres), which had eliminated the snake,” mentioned Ms Low.

Her three-year-old tabby cat weighed about 6kg, she mentioned.

To her household’s horror, they learnt the following day that the python had vomited their pet’s carcass whereas the reptile was being transported to the Singapore Zoo.

But it surely was too late for them to retrieve the carcass, which was thrown out by employees.

“I want they’d been a bit extra delicate in dealing with the difficulty… particularly when my cat had a collar,” mentioned Ms Low, who felt that the employees members may have taken the difficulty to search out out if the cat belonged to somebody.

This was the primary time Ms Low and her household, who reside in a three-storey home, had seen a snake at D’Manor since they moved into the property greater than 10 years in the past. Ms Low mentioned they have been shocked to see one because the condominium will not be close to any nature areas.

“My mum is devastated as a result of she was very near Ben, whom we have had since he was one-week-old. He was a really candy cat that would not damage anybody and would cuddle as much as us once we have been upset.”

“Each time we take into consideration what occurred, we nonetheless cry,” mentioned Ms Low.

Ben favored to solar itself so the household allowed it to roam the compound, she mentioned, including that the cat would return house by itself.

After the incident, they’re now extra vigilant of the whereabouts of their six-year-old canine and two different cats.