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Canadian couple find two pythons in home

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TORONTO, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A Canadian couple say they found two Royal Pythons in their home within 30 days.

Janet Wilkinson and her husband Chris Forde found a python inside their washing machine Saturday, and two weeks ago discovered a python living in their floorboards, the Toronto Star reported.

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"Lightning only strikes in the same place once," Wilkinson said Saturday. "But last night it struck again -- and it is probably going to strike three or four more times."

The couple's snake saga began when they ripped out a toilet in their main floor washroom for renovations. While the floor was open, a snake poked its head out of the opening, then disappeared.

"This head just popped out," Forde said of the python peeking through a gap in the floorboards. Despite tearing out his basement ceiling, and setting traps with dead mice and hot water bottles, the snake didn't return at first.

Then on Friday they found the 3-foot-long snake they called Monty sitting in front of a refrigerator in their basement and took it to a local pet store.

Snake expert Tom Mason said the Royal Python hails from West Africa, and is one of the most popular snakes in the pet trade. They are harmless to humans as long as they are less than 12 feet long.

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Mason said a python can travel "quite a ways" when it escapes from an owner, which apparently happens with some frequency.

"Snakes are escape artists," Mason said.

The couple took the second snake, which they called Montegue, to the Tails pet store, where they had already taken Monty.

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