A Rhode Island woman woke up to an atypical intruder in her home one evening. It wasn't a burglar, but a pet snake that a previous resident had lost months earlier.

"It's something you just don't wake up to in Rhode Island. Florida, maybe," Nicole Jones said to WPRI.

Jones is seven months pregnant and went to get a snack when she said she found the reptile in the kitchen of her new apartment in East Providence. She woke her mother after trying to figure out whether it was real or a dream. But after the snake moved, she called the East Providence Police.

They said it was not venomous and not native to the area, so they removed it from her home. They said that it was an unusual call to respond to.

But when she learned they planned to take it to a reptile shop and nobody would know where

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