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Snake saved by surgery in Australia after mistaking golf balls for eggs
BRISBANE, Australia - A veterinary surgeon has saved the life of a snake that mistook some golf balls for chicken eggs and ate four of them.
The Australian Associated Press says a couple in New South Wales placed the golf balls in a chicken coup to encourage their hen to lay.
The balls disappeared.
But all the couple could find was a lumpy-looking carpet python nearby.
They took the almost metre-long, non-venomous snake to the nearby Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. There, senior veterinarian Michael Pyne operated to remove the balls from the snake's intestine.
Pyne says the snake is now making a speedy recovery.
"Those golf balls weren't moving any further. They were stuck where they were," Pyne said.
"If it hadn't been found, it would have died for sure," he said of the snake.
I guess with the scent of the chicken on them & perhaps where the balls were located, it's a simple mistake for a python to make...
Instead of being egg-bound, the snake was ball-bound...*ouch*!
Good for the couple in taking the python to the vet, though! :cheers:
(I included the link to the actual article -- but there are no photos of the snake...sorry!)
BRISBANE, Australia - A veterinary surgeon has saved the life of a snake that mistook some golf balls for chicken eggs and ate four of them.
The Australian Associated Press says a couple in New South Wales placed the golf balls in a chicken coup to encourage their hen to lay.
The balls disappeared.
But all the couple could find was a lumpy-looking carpet python nearby.
They took the almost metre-long, non-venomous snake to the nearby Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. There, senior veterinarian Michael Pyne operated to remove the balls from the snake's intestine.
Pyne says the snake is now making a speedy recovery.
"Those golf balls weren't moving any further. They were stuck where they were," Pyne said.
"If it hadn't been found, it would have died for sure," he said of the snake.
I guess with the scent of the chicken on them & perhaps where the balls were located, it's a simple mistake for a python to make...
Instead of being egg-bound, the snake was ball-bound...*ouch*! Good for the couple in taking the python to the vet, though! :cheers:
(I included the link to the actual article -- but there are no photos of the snake...sorry!)
