A story that involves a crystal meth lab , a drug - addicted python , and a New South Wales prison sounds in question , but this is actually an aww - inducing storey of rescue and renewal .
When Australian constabulary in New South Wales busted a crystal glass lab last year , there were sure thing they ask to notice and take by with them : Equipment , cash , and batch of narcotics . A drug - hook , snappy 1.8 - meter ( 6 - foot ) python was not one of them .
It ’s not unusual for criminals to utilize snakes to protect their cache and frighten off any ( more ) ne’er - do - wellspring , but when the snake acted aggressively to the police and belated animal animal trainer , they suspect that after it had been cooped up in the lab and exposed to the methamphetamine subatomic particle , they were in all probability dealing with a dissatisfied drug - addict .
The python , who “ can not be name for effectual reason ” , was check out into a prison reclamation facility to dry out at the Corrective Services NSW Wildlife Care Centre , just outside Sydney , and , after seven months recuperate under the watchful eyes of inmate in the average - security prison , is said to recovering well , having returned to normal behavior . The John Morony Correctional Complex offers a selective wildlife care program , which has been running for 20 years , that also helps rehabilitate inmates . It is call up that around 250 animals have been wish for at the minimal - security prison house , including other reptiles rescue from raids , kangaroos , possum , and birds .
" What we see with the work force in our care in their advance to animal is that it softens them and it humanizes them , " prison governor Ivan Calder told theBBC . " Giving the inmates the opportunity to care and take responsibility for animals is a major enabler in their renewal and a major agent for conduct alteration . "
A roster of 14 inmates will seem after the snake until his original owners are brought to DoJ , when he will then be rehomed to a to the full licensed , hopefully forever home , rehabilitate back into society , and with a bright , unobjectionable future ahead of him .
