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A snake in the Australian state of New South Wales has had a lucky escape after a sneaky snack led to emergency stomach surgery. The 80-cm (32-inch) carpet python mistook golf balls - left by a couple in their chicken coop to encourage hens to lay - for eggs, and ate four of them. The couple took the python to the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary where vets decided that the snake had no chance of passing the balls. Vets operated on the snake, making an incision through which the golf balls were successfully removed.
marvelfreak
02-21-11, 08:21 PM
When carpet are hunger and smell food nothing safe. lol
Poor fella! At least they were able to save him!
serpentshideawa
02-21-11, 10:09 PM
i saw that on some show on animal planet a while back gorgeous snake but bad lunch
infernalis
02-22-11, 12:08 AM
Nice that they saved the snake.....
http://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/images/article-images/SnakeXray-Large.jpg
wow! i though that snakes only determines prey using heat sensors. hmmm...???
TeaNinja
02-22-11, 02:01 AM
Nice that they saved the snake.....
http://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/images/article-images/SnakeXray-Large.jpg
omg, did that snake eat 2 light bulbs?!? lolol
presspirate
02-22-11, 04:18 AM
I'm glad the farm couple took him to the vet. I think that is commendable. He could have just as easily been eating their chickens.
justin4snakes
02-22-11, 07:00 AM
looks like the snake in waynes picture had a not so "bright" idea lol nd iwould think something like a golfball wouldnt have a high enough thermal signature for a snake to want to eat
:Wow: I'm surprised the light bulbs didn't break, it they do/did they would cause a big problem for that snake.
infernalis
02-22-11, 07:49 AM
The fact that someone took a wild snake to a vet and had it taken care of, rather than killing the snake, is commendable.
I found that pic some time ago, just google "snake x-ray" the golf ball pics are in the top results also.
snake x-ray - Google Search (http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1020&bih=583&q=snake+x-ray&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=)
shaunyboy
02-22-11, 08:12 AM
never ceases to amze me how stupid snakes can be at times
on another forum a girl just had to cut her water bowl of a ball python after it decided to try and squeeze through small hole at the bottom of the bowl but got stuck due to the holes being way too small to get through
just gotta love the crazy snakes of this world...!!
cheers shaun
Will0W783
02-22-11, 09:38 AM
Poor carpet python...it's wonderful that the couple took him to the vet though. So many would have just let the poor thing suffer. It looks from the pics to be a beautiful example of a coastal locale as well. Wayne, do you know if they saved the snake that ate light bulbs? I imagine the bulbs must have recently been on to register to the snake's heat pits?
citysnakes
02-22-11, 09:55 AM
never ceases to amze me how stupid snakes can be at times
on another forum a girl just had to cut her water bowl of a ball python after it decided to try and squeeze through small hole at the bottom of the bowl but got stuck due to the holes being way too small to get through
just gotta love the crazy snakes of this world...!!
cheers shaun
sounds like thats stupidity on the keeper's part mate! ;)
infernalis
02-26-11, 10:04 AM
Wayne, do you know if they saved the snake that ate light bulbs? I imagine the bulbs must have recently been on to register to the snake's heat pits?
Not sure, Like I said, I found that on an image search some time ago.
sounds like thats stupidity on the keeper's part mate! ;)
I have to agree, I never put anything in my snakes cages that the animal could get caught in... it's just common sense.
Sapphyr
02-26-11, 12:34 PM
Not sure, Like I said, I found that on an image search some time ago.
I found it was one of the top images found on the 'snake xray' google image search.
Edit: Good news! I found everyone's answer. Yes, the snake was successfully treated and released back into the wild. I farmer stated he regularly discarded burned out lights from his chicken coop. He one day found a snake with two large lumps and took it to the vet where they found lightbulbs lodged in its stomach. The vet performed surgery on the snake, removing said light bulbs. After recovering, the snake was released back into the wild.
Read all about it and other odd things animals have eaten here: They ate what! (http://www.housepetmagazine.com/four/Dog_eat.htm)
I found it was one of the top images found on the 'snake xray' google image search.
Edit: Good news! I found everyone's answer. Yes, the snake was successfully treated and released back into the wild. I farmer stated he regularly discarded burned out lights from his chicken coop. He one day found a snake with two large lumps and took it to the vet where they found lightbulbs lodged in its stomach. The vet performed surgery on the snake, removing said light bulbs. After recovering, the snake was released back into the wild.
Read all about it and other odd things animals have eaten here: They ate what! (http://www.housepetmagazine.com/four/Dog_eat.htm)
That site has some crazy stuff, can you imagine a dog eating a steak knife!:Wow:
Lankyrob
02-26-11, 03:11 PM
I remember a vet program where an owner took a Jack Russell in saying it had "eaten a stick", obviously not showing up well on the xray they operated as the dog was becoming distressed and removed a stick that was basically as long as the dog! It was amazing the poor thing hadnt died, he made a full recovery.
presspirate
02-26-11, 03:24 PM
Last weekend, I fed my male Scrub. I did not notice he had shed, as I had been away for a couple days. I gave him his rat on top of his humid hide, and then switched off the light and left the room. When I came back in about 20 minutes later he had the rat mostly swallowed as well as part of his shed. His shed was inside the humid hide, with just a bit sticking out of it which must have adhered to the rat while he was eating. I had to put on a pair of gloves so I could cut the shed and dig it out before he swallowed the whole thing. Not a light bulb or a golf ball, but it was weird in my experience.
Sapphyr
02-26-11, 04:04 PM
Silly scrubby, omnoming his own shed xD
And yeah, I think I've seen a show that featured the dog that ate a steak knife. I do believe the dog went on to live a normal life after it was removed. Then again, my memory sucks.
Wow.. I can't imagine a dog eating a stick his own length.. Also couldn't imagine why or how.
Lankyrob
02-26-11, 04:18 PM
Just an odd bit of advice i pass onto dog owners, NEVER throw a stick for a dog!! Back when i was just a wee lad, about thirty years ago!, i was walking the family dog in a local park. Little old lady was throwing sticks for her labrador and the stick span end over end before sticking into the mud, the poor doggy ran striaght onto the upturned dnd and impaled itself on the stick, killed it instantly. I have never thrown a stick since that day (also used to get a bit freaked out walking through that park at night after witnessing the event)
Sapphyr
02-26-11, 04:22 PM
Just an odd bit of advice i pass onto dog owners, NEVER throw a stick for a dog!! Back when i was just a wee lad, about thirty years ago!, i was walking the family dog in a local park. Little old lady was throwing sticks for her labrador and the stick span end over end before sticking into the mud, the poor doggy ran striaght onto the upturned dnd and impaled itself on the stick, killed it instantly. I have never thrown a stick since that day (also used to get a bit freaked out walking through that park at night after witnessing the event)
:c .. Oh ow... That's horrible.. And yeah, I'd get a little irked at night after that, too.
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