 Charna Tomlinson likes playing with Tracey |
A snake which is said to be dangerous to children and small animals has gone missing in Sheffield. The three year old Burmese python called Tracey escaped from her tank in the garage of a house in Wincobank Lane in Grimesthorpe on Sunday.
Her owner Paul Tomlinson says Tracey has not eaten for two weeks and was due to be fed over the weekend on her usual diet of rabbits and rats.
He says Tracey may attack cats and dogs or even small children.
Previous escape
"If she sees a cat or a dog, she will go for it, bite it and crush it," he told BBC News Online.
"And if she comes across a child who has recently been stroking a pet she might go for them as well."
Tracey is 11 feet long and weighs about four stone.
Mr Tomlinson says he bought Tracey and three other similar snakes as an interest for his three children, nine-year-old Charna, Ryan, 10, and Andrew, 14.
Tracey escaped in similar fashion last year by slipping through the glass walls of her tank.
That time she was away for three days and was found in the garden of a nearby house keeping a hungry eye on the local cats.
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