SINGAPORE – A 2m-long python was injured in October after members of the public pulled it out from a car’s engine compartment, scraping the snake’s skin and causing it to bleed from the mouth.
Another python, just as long, was repeatedly hit by plastic pails and crates at Boon Lay Place Market and Food Village in April, and finally hacked to death.
Cooked food stall assistant Ricky Cheong, 54, was fined $1,000 for killing the snake.
With a reputation for being venomous, snakes are often portrayed in a negative light in literature, movies, the media and even religion. And every year, there are reports in Singapore of the animal being killed and abused.
In the past eight years, wildlife rescue group Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (Acres) has received an annual average of about 14 reports of snakes abused and killed either by hot water or insecticide, or stuck on glue traps.
This is only the tip of the iceberg as the actual scale of abuse here is not known, said Acres co-chief executive Anbarasi Boopal, popularly known as Anbu.
“There is no accurate data available as the snakes, in most cases, have already been killed, and people do not call Acres but just dispose of the body.
“Sadly, it is not uncommon to come across snakes that were sprayed with insecticides, stepped on, crushed with a broom, or had hot water poured on them, resulting in injuries or death,” she said, adding that such actions occur due to fear and ignorance.
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