Employees at the Vancouver Ferrari dealership accidentally brought a living, slithering souvenir from Osoyoos in the Okanagan region back to the Lower Mainland recently.
Following a retreat in the interior vacation spot – conveniently located next to the Area 27 luxury motorsport club – employees noticed the serpent slither out from one of the cars and onto the showroom floor, as shown in the above photo. And much like a Ferrari engine, the snake emitted a telling sound that made it easy to identify: it rattled.
That’s when the employees called the professionals at the Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C. Support Centre Helpline, who were able to safely capture the creature, a Northern Pacific rattlesnake, and even identify it thanks to a special green band and microchip that researchers had fit it with. The snake, now named “Enzo” after its taste for high-end transportation, was taken to the Dewdney Animal Hospital in Maple Ridge, where it was given a clean bill of health and cleared for transportation back to its Interior home.
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“The coolest part of this story is when we got it and examined it, we noticed it had a green bit of paint at the end of the rattles,” Dr. Adrian Walton of the Dewdney Animal Hospital told CTV News, explaining how they discovered where the snake had come from. “We not only know where it comes from, we know, to the rock, to the bush, where this animal has to be released to.”
So, on Father’s Day Sunday, Walton and his family loaded a bundled Enzo into their Toyota Tacoma and returned it to the Nk’Mip snake project, located near the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre.
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