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Post by radio on May 15, 2015 16:01:27 GMT -5
What DA would use BBQ tongs to feed a snake with?!?!?! can't get the pic to post, so see story with photo here: www.ky3.com/news/nation/python-bites-off-more-than-he-can-chew/21049024_33036662Python bites off more than he can chew Snake swallows barbecue tongs by Euan McKirdy CNN An Adelaide snake owner had to take his python for emergency medical treatment after the animal swallowed a set of barbecue tongs that were being used to feed him a rat. More from KY3 Social media video shows baby playing with python Winston, a Woma python, was taken into University of Adelaide's Companion Animal Health Centre by his owner, Aaron Rouse, after swallowing the utensil. Dr. Oliver Funnell, the attendant veterinary surgeon, told CNN that he assumed it would be a quick removal using a pair of forceps. When he saw Winston, however, it was immediately apparent that the tongs were well-lodged down the snake's digestive tract. "You could feel the outline of the tongs through the snake," he said by phone from Adelaide. Potentially fatal Snakes have the ability to regurgitate, but there was a high possibility the python could harm himself because of the metal tong's sharp edges. "There was a chance (he could have regurgitated the tongs) but they were too far in," Funnell said. "Even dragging them out could have been fatal." The 25-minute surgery saw Funnell, aided by student veterinarians, remove the tongs from an incision near their widest part. "We are a teaching hospital and the students helped all along -- they got a lot out of it." Funnell saw the patient a few days after the surgery and said that, he was acting normally and drinking water again. "We won't feed him for two to four weeks but the incisions are healing nicely," Funnell said.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2015 17:33:11 GMT -5
Alice Cooper used to use my snakes. He had one eat its heating pad. Handler freeked out and cut the power cord. Surgery required.
Xrays priceless!
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Post by radio on May 15, 2015 18:53:26 GMT -5
Alice Cooper used to use my snakes. He had one eat its heating pad. Handler freeked out and cut the power cord. Surgery required. Xrays priceless! LOL! Be glad it wasn't Ozzy Osborn or he woulda bit it's head off like he did bats
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Post by Fossilman on May 16, 2015 22:26:35 GMT -5
Alice Cooper used to use my snakes. He had one eat its heating pad. Handler freeked out and cut the power cord. Surgery required. Xrays priceless! LOL! Be glad it wasn't Ozzy Osborn or he woulda bit it's head off like he did bats Ozzy thought the bat was a stage prop,so was going to make it look real-it surprised him too,that it was a living creature....LOL
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Post by lilacmoth on May 16, 2015 23:03:23 GMT -5
Alice Cooper used to use my snakes. He had one eat its heating pad. Handler freeked out and cut the power cord. Surgery required. Xrays priceless! What the!!! My kid was just telling me about that snake! I guess he read it in some book. We were literally talking about it in the car the other day, I asked him why a snake would eat a heating pad, lol! So crazy that that was one of yours.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2015 18:35:06 GMT -5
Snake was eating and rat had puddled on the heat mat. As rat was swallowed snake grabbed heat pad and ate it.
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Post by 1nickthegreek on May 19, 2015 4:16:32 GMT -5
I had a12 ft Afrock that tried to ingest his water bowl after a rabbit had snuggled up to the side of it. Funny thing is that I only fed frozen/thawed, so he pushed the rabbit up to the side and then tried to eat it after he consumed 4 lbs of rabbit LOL
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