A team of professional hunters captures a large reticulated python in Puerto Rico after the snake is reported to have attacked a pet cat behind a home. Multiple outlets say the animal was spotted eating or strangling the cat, prompting calls and action from trappers.

Fox News identifies the hunter as Kevin Pavlidis and describes the python as an 18-foot reticulated python, claiming it is the largest of its kind captured on record in Puerto Rico. The Daily Mail similarly reports that an exotic animal hunter captures a rare python following the sighting and focuses on the incident involving the homeowner’s pet cat. Both accounts frame the capture as a response to a dangerous invasive species sighting in a residential area, though they provide limited additional detail on the animal’s origin, exact location, or what happens next.