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PetsPyjamas website attracts top high street executive
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Gardman donates £16,000 worth of pet products to Wood Green
Hollings adds three more tubs of treats to its range
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The Hay Experts launch new range of natural products for small animals
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Licences renewed for Pets at Home stores in Sheffield
Interactive Kids Zone at Dogs for the Disabled fun day
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A variety of California kingsnake is wreaking havoc in Canary Islands
Leading French pet store chain Animalis says 'Oui' to Litter Kwitter and Pet Diner
Treat firm Barker & Barker sponsors dog trainers
Police launch inquiry after voting card sent to rottweiler
Pet owners face challenges seeking rental properties
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A variety of California kingsnake is wreaking havoc in Canary Islands

An albino variety of California kingsnake popular in the pet trade has infested the Canary Islands, decimating native bird, mammal and lizard species that have had no time to evolve evasive patterns in what was once a stable ecology northwest of Africa.

Unchecked by natural predators, the kingsnake population has exploded, say US Geological Survey biologists helping the Spanish archipelago attempt to control the highly adaptive and secretive predators.

"The kingsnakes in question are from a species found in San Diego and bred in captivity," said Robert Fisher, a research biologist with the USGS. "Some of their offspring wound up in the Canary Islands via the international pet trade, and then got loose.

"Now, their densities are going through the roof."

Fisher is among three US.experts heading to the Canary Islands in May to advise scientists and government officials on the behavior and potential vulnerabilities of the snakes that first raised alarms in 2007.

Since then, their populations have swelled to thousands per square mile in the eastern and northwestern portions of the 602-square-mile volcanic island of Gran Canaria — a kingsnake haven because of its mild temperatures, moist ocean air and lush terrain teeming with prey that never learned to fear snakes.

Dogs and hawks have been used in organized assaults against the snakes. So far, fewer than 2,000 have been snared, most of them discovered slithering over the ground.

"The trouble is, these snakes spend much of their lives beneath the ground," said Robert Reed, an invasive species specialist with the USGS. "So my message to people in the Canaries will be this: The fact that you're removing hundreds of visible snakes means, unfortunately, that it is likely that there are many, many thousands more out there you can't see."

Brian Hinds, president of the California chapter of the North American Field Herping Assn., will arrive in Gran Canaria with proposals for dealing with what he described as a "monumental task." Among them: plowing up infested areas with earth movers.

"They need to strike back hard and fast," said Hinds, who says he has personally captured more than 3,000 California kingsnakes. "They're not called kingsnakes for nothing."

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