Snake needs some help after eating tennis ball
There aren’t many occasions when you can get someone feeling sorry for snake, but this has to be an exception.
This video shows the excruciating moment vets remove a tennis ball from a python that had mistaken it for food in a garden in Townsville, Australia.
The procedure would have almost certainly saved the life of the 1.5 metre snake which would have slowly starved to death before it could have digested the ball.
The delicate operation took place over the course of 30 minutes, and saw vets lubricate the ball with paraffin oil before slowly sliding it out.
Snake handler Trish Prendergast said the ball most likely smelt like prey.
‘It wouldn’t eat it for the sake of it,’ she told ABC.
‘I can’t say I’ve ever had a tennis ball before, I have removed plastic chicken eggs and golf balls from snakes previously.’
The python is recovering and will be released into the wild next week.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/09/snake-needs-some-help-after-eating-tennis-ball-thinking-it-was-prey-6436951/
This video shows the excruciating moment vets remove a tennis ball from a python that had mistaken it for food in a garden in Townsville, Australia.
The procedure would have almost certainly saved the life of the 1.5 metre snake which would have slowly starved to death before it could have digested the ball.
The delicate operation took place over the course of 30 minutes, and saw vets lubricate the ball with paraffin oil before slowly sliding it out.
Snake handler Trish Prendergast said the ball most likely smelt like prey.
‘It wouldn’t eat it for the sake of it,’ she told ABC.
‘I can’t say I’ve ever had a tennis ball before, I have removed plastic chicken eggs and golf balls from snakes previously.’
The python is recovering and will be released into the wild next week.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/09/snake-needs-some-help-after-eating-tennis-ball-thinking-it-was-prey-6436951/
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