An employee of Alaska’s Denali National Park was on his way to the when he took a detour to investigate a pile of trash at about mile 7.
He discovered the site of : the charred remains of a partially-eaten rodent, a crushed mouse, the head of a baby python, and a turtle nearly frozen to death鈥攁long with receipts from a Petco in Fairbanks, Alaska.
“That’s when things took a turn for us to be realizing that someone had gone on a pet-shopping spree at a box store and came to the park and started to consume them,” geologist Denny Capps told .
鈥淭here was evidence that a visitor had a small campfire,鈥 said park spokeswoman聽Maureen Gualtieri.聽鈥淸Park rangers] found a few boxes from Petco and found that multiple small pets had been cooked in that campfire.鈥
The National Park Service is working with Petco to identify the person who bought the pets, but Gualtieri says they have yet to pick up a lead.
As for the turtle, a red-eared slider, park rangers were able to warm it up, and it now lives with a family in Healy, Alaska, who named it Lucky.