A Burmese python was put on a one-way-flight from Vancouver to Toronto Tuesday morning en route to his new forever home.

Mombo, a 4.5-metre, 34-kilogram snake was found by Richmond RCMP last fall and picked up by Dr. Adrian Walton at the Dewdney Animal Hospital in Maple Ridge.

Other than an upper respiratory ailment that staff at the veterinarian clinic were treating him for by pumping antibiotics into a box through steam, Mombo was in good condition.

Walton had to to house the snake and decided on in Vaughan, Ont., about 50 kilometres north of downtown Toronto.

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Mombo was to take a WestJet flight in a locked and heated Rubbermaid container with holes in it for air.

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