Rare two-headed snake found in woman’s house
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Your support makes all the difference.A rare two-headed snake was rehomed after a North Carolina woman took it a science centre.
Jeannie Wilson, from Alexander County, North Carolina, was stunned when she found the reptile in her conservatory as she cleaned.
She told WSOC-TV that she thought the snake was injured before she saw it had two heads.
"I saw something in the corner of my eye, and I said, 'lord, that's a snake!, she told the station.
"The first thing I thought was, 'Oh gosh, something has stepped on you and mashed your head.'"
She named the snake "Double Trouble", which she described as being "very gentle to handle" and never tried to bite her.
Ms Wilson took the snake to the Catawba Science Centre in Hickory, some 30 miles from her home in Taylorsville.
Science centre staff said the snake appeared to be around four months old, and appeared to be a rat snake, Ms Wilson told WSOC-TV.
"I went to the science centre and told them what I had, they said 'we would love to have it', she said.
Ms Wilson told Fox10 news that she retrieved the snake from the science centre a few days afterwards, so that a snake wrangler could buy it for his son, saying "it just felt right".
According to the Catawba Science Center, one in 100,000 baby rat snakes will have two heads, making “Double Trouble” rare.
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