Python hunters catch largest reticulated python ever recorded in Puerto Rico after it was spotted strangling a pet cat

A professional python hunter who doubles as a professional alligator wrangler, according to his Instagram bio, helped catch “the longest living reticulated python ever captured in Puerto Rico.”

Working with Proyectos Retic, a group of python hunters in Puerto Rico who collect data and specimens on the reticulated python, Snakeaholic aka Kevin Pavlidis helped catch a reticulated python measuring 18′ 4″ long.

El Hippie Waterfall in Naguabo, Puerto Rico. (Getty Images)

This gigantic snake was supported by eight people standing shoulder to shoulder to show what a large snake they were dealing with. They found him after he was “spotted strangling a cat behind a house.”

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It was not specified whether or not the cat survived the ordeal. These hunters had a snake to catch. But as you can clearly see, this thing can easily take down more than just one pet cat.

The reticulated python is an invasive species in Puerto Rico, just as Burmese pythons are, in Snakeaholic’s home state of Florida.

Bloor said she just “kind of put herself aside.” (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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“It took all my tracking skills and 20 minutes of searching to find this snake in the jungle,” Snakeaholic wrote of tracking the snake after it was chased down a mountain away from the cat it was strangling.

“Removing this invasive predator is one step closer to restoring the delicate balance of the ecosystem here in Puerto Rico and I am proud to be part of this incredible conservation work!”

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Running around snatching pythons in the jungle isn’t my idea of ​​fun, but someone has to do it. A giant snake species like this can take over an ecosystem, as Snakeaholic points out.

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Image of an Asian reticulated python (Python reticulatus), a member of the Pythonidae family. (From Agostini via Getty Images)

“As incredible as these snakes are, they pose an incredibly great threat to Puerto Rico’s delicate ecosystem,” he added in another article about this monstrous snake.

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“It’s not the snake’s fault, it’s yet another human error of introducing a non-native animal and @proyectoreticpr and I are doing our best to solve the problem created by other people.”