Ball python captured along Big Dry Creek Trail in Westminster

A escaped shot python snake was captured Tuesday successful a stakeout arsenic the reptile was catching immoderate sunshine on Big Dry Creek Trail successful Westminster.

Native to cardinal and occidental Africa, shot pythons are among the astir fashionable favored snakes.

On Tuesday, radical spotted the shot python on the way adjacent West 121st Avenue and Zuni Street and Westminster Animal Management was notified, according to the constabulary department’s Facebook page.

Animal Management Officer Jonathan Meketuk caught the snake, arsenic it was sunning, and it was taken to a section reptile rescue enactment to beryllium treated for dehydration.

Pet snakes should ne'er beryllium released into the wild, according to the Westminster quality release.

“These non-native reptiles tin origin problems with our autochthonal taxon and they bash not person the quality to past successful a chaotic state,” the merchandise said. “If you person a favored that you tin nary longer attraction for, delight cheque with a taxon circumstantial rescue radical oregon (an) unfastened admittance nationalist carnal structure for assistance.”

Ball pythons are known for their remarkable array of patterns and colors, according to reptiles magazine. The circumstantial snake is described arsenic shy, affable and manageable.