University of Guelph campus police, and presumably the owner, are searching for a small ball python snake at the U of G's University Centre.
A campus bulletin was posted Thursday afternoon.
It said the snake was reported missing from the centre's second floor. It was brought to campus in a student’s backpack.
The bulletin said that campus police along with pest control specialists from the campus Physical Resources department are searching the building.
The four-year-old snake is brown and black and about two feet long.
“People have nothing to fear from a small ball python,” said Hugues Beaufrère, chief of the Avian and Exotic Medicine Service at the Ontario Veterinary College in a press release..
The snakes are not dangerous or venomous, he said. “It is likely scared and trying to hide, looking for some place warm.”
Ball pythons may bite, so people should not pick up the snake. Anyone who sees the snake, or who has any information, is encouraged to contact Campus Community Police at Ext. 52245.
