Removal men find live python in cupboard

Furniture removers discovered a live python in a cupboard when they cleared out an apartment in Stuttgart on Wednesday.

They came across the 130-cm-long snake in a cupboard they were moving and placed a call to animal rescue services at around 10am.

After animal rescue took the the python to the vets to have it examined, police said it was well-fed and unharmed.

Stuttgart city authorities are now looking at animal cruelty charges against the owner.

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