7/20/2006: Python eats electric blanket

Undertoad · 07-20-2006, 11:12 AM

Official caption: Karl Beznoska's 12-foot Burmese python, Houdini, is attended to on an operating table, Tuesday, July 18, 2006, in Ketchum, Idaho. It took surgery to save the python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket _ with the electrical cord and control box. 'The prognosis is great,' veterinarian Karsten Fostvedt said after Tuesday's two-hour operation.

Facts culled from other news stories on the event:

- The blanket was in the cage for warmth; Beznoska thinks it got caught up in the snake's regular food.
- It probably took the snake 6 hours to eat the thing, and it took them 2 hours to take it out.
- The blanket was lodged in about 8 feet of the 12-foot snake; the incision to remove it was a foot and a half.
- It had been plugged in.

Somehow the snake unplugged it.

07-20-2006, 11:12 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	7/20/2006: Python eats electric blanket Official caption: Karl Beznoska's 12-foot Burmese python, Houdini, is attended to on an operating table, Tuesday, July 18, 2006, in Ketchum, Idaho. It took surgery to save the python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket _ with the electrical cord and control box. 'The prognosis is great,' veterinarian Karsten Fostvedt said after Tuesday's two-hour operation. Facts culled from other news stories on the event: - The blanket was in the cage for warmth; Beznoska thinks it got caught up in the snake's regular food. - It probably took the snake 6 hours to eat the thing, and it took them 2 hours to take it out. - The blanket was lodged in about 8 feet of the 12-foot snake; the incision to remove it was a foot and a half. - It had been plugged in. Somehow the snake unplugged it.

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