Ball python found slithering in Canadian man's front yard

July 26 (UPI) -- A Canada man arrived home to find a nearly 4-foot-long ball python slithering in his front yard.

Ren Bouchard said he spotted the snake in the grass when pulling into the driveway of his Brandon, Manitoba home with his fiancée on Sunday.

"I thought at first it was a garden snake," he told CBC News. "So I told my fiancée to stop the car, to back it up a bit, and I got out of the car to go get it, and I realized the size of it. Like, this is a real [big] snake to me."

He quickly asked his fiancée to call his brother-in-law who lives in the neighborhood and they used a pool skimmer to lift the python into a plastic bin while they waited for Brandon police to arrive and collect the animal.

"I'm glad that I found it and not my kids," Bouchard told the Brandon Sun.

When police arrived they put on gloves to carry the snake out of the bin, but quickly changed their minds.

"They didn't want to touch it, like, with gloves," Bouchard said. "They took the whole container."

Bouchard said he wasn't sure where the snake may have come from and he was surprised to learn it may have been living in the neighborhood.

"It's hard to say," he said. "I never knew a neighbor had a snake like this. I'm assuming it's from the neighborhood."

A photo of the python was shared to the Brandon and Area Lost Animals Facebook page and despite being frightened by the snake Bouchard said it was "beautiful" and appeared to be healthy.

Police said the snake was taken to a local veterinary clinic and had not been claimed as of Monday.