Dead snakes and spiders found in Cork city home

More than 50 dead snakes, tarantulas, and venomous scorpions have been recovered from a house in a Cork suburb as part of the largest animal seizure of its kind in the city.

The Cork Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals also recovered hundreds of dead cockroaches from the house in Douglas which were being bred on the property as feed.

CSPCA inspectors managed to recover 44 live non-venomous snakes, scorpions, tarantulas, a 20cm bird-eating spider, an exotic 10cm centipede and two parrots which were being kept in appalling conditions.