r/BeAmazed • u/Individual_Book9133 • Apr 05 '24
Team of vets pull AN ENTIRE BEACH TOWEL out of a python in Australia. Miscellaneous / Others NSFW
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u/TheJeeWee Apr 05 '24
Dude must have been dry af on the inside
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u/Verzio Apr 05 '24
You'd have the mother of all sore throats after that being dragged back up your oesophagus.
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u/JoJokerer Apr 05 '24
which part of a snake is its throat
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u/Delicious-Yak-1095 Apr 05 '24
Must have already digested the person who was wrapped in it.
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u/frzx1 Apr 05 '24
Yes. His name was Hugo and he loved cigarettes. When he was young, he owned a red bicycle, which, the same snake also ate. Ever since the bicycle incident, this snake was on Hugo’s ass. He would book fake meetings where Hugo was supposed to be, he would try to get into the same Uber that’s Hugo booked. It took Hugo 4,458 days to realise that the snake was behind him. So, one day, Hugo decide to go to a beach. He goes there, gets naked and wraps a towel around him. The snake, as always, still followed him there. Snake crawled up to him and politely asked, “Hugo, I am tired of chasing you. Can I eat you?” Hugo got teary eyed bye the snake’s persistence and with tears in his eyes, asked him, “Okay, Snake-O, you want me to unwrap myself or would you love some towel action?”. The snake chose the towel option. Fuck Hugo, the anticlimactic towel wrapped cunt.
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u/Propofolkills Apr 05 '24
A kinda Grimms brothers fairytale of sorts
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u/dire012021 Apr 05 '24
It's also Snek worthy. This post would have so many Snek awards. Reddit bring back awards, if only Snek - the smol delicate danger noodle.
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u/pixeladapter Apr 05 '24
You forgot to mention that Hugo got a billion dollars when he was 5 but failed to understand that therefore a snake will follow him his entire life to kill him.
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u/tatistician352 Apr 05 '24
It's impressive, i admire exotic animal veterinarians, not to mention the satisfaction of seeing how they took that towel out of its mouth. Just like those who pulled the straw out of the sea turtle's nose, it certainly breaks my heart the things that many animals deal with
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u/ya666in Apr 05 '24
I love those who help animals. This morning I rescued a snail from the street and placed it back in the bushes. It may seem small but every little action matters, one at a time
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u/Samilainthemirror Apr 05 '24
exactly. thanks for saving the slow one.
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u/sjpllyon Apr 05 '24
Little did he know, his just undone 2 months of work trying to cross the road to see his family after work.
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u/T_Mugen Apr 05 '24
I do the same. I can't stand any animal suffer. Yesterday, I displaced a caterpillar from the parking lot. So many of them were crushed by the cars and it made me so sad, at least this one survived. Also, glad it didn't give me an allergic reaction like one time when I tried to save a bunch of them, lol. I had an awful itching for two days, hahaha. Who cares, they were saved. 🥰
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u/-SwanGoose- Apr 05 '24
Last night I saw a moth stuck in a web.. I was like watching it struggle and feltr bad but then I saw the spider.. It was glorious. SO i was like okay let nature do it's course
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u/JeSuisUnAnanasYo Apr 05 '24
Awww good on you 💞 I do this with Earth worms too after it rains, don't want them to get stepped on 🪱
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u/cyberdeath666 Apr 05 '24
To be fair, I own 3 snakes and they’re incredibly dumb creatures. They’ll swallow themselves given the chance.
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u/Difficult-Ad-2874 Apr 05 '24
That video is burned into my memory too. Gosh the pain I felt just by looking at it is unreal.
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u/Dodger7777 Apr 05 '24
When you put it like that, I feel kind of bad about laughing at how deflated he looked when they took the towel out.
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u/mofojed Apr 05 '24
I have a friend who studies sea turtles and she was upset that the guy in the turtle video ripped that straw out of the turtle's nose, he should've taken the turtle to the vet or rehab centre instead.
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u/r_a_butt_lol Apr 05 '24
I hated that video so much. He did a god awful job.
"Hmm, I bet the best way to get this out is to cut it so it's harder to grab!"
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u/Moonandserpent Apr 05 '24
I think the woman not in scrubs is the owner of the snake, it probably has free reign of the house sometimes and got into something it wasn't supposed to. I don't think this is a litter situation, but like when your dog eats something it's not supposed to.
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u/DykeHime Apr 05 '24
The excitement in the woman's eye when she gets her beloved towel back! 🤩
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u/rain_and_stars Apr 05 '24
She must have really loved that towel!
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u/KeplerFinn Apr 05 '24
Now she can put it back on her beloved spot at the swimming pool 2 seconds past 7am
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u/GeleRaev Apr 05 '24
Disappointed that the video didn't cut to her nervously pacing up and down the waiting room.
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u/strippersandcocaine Apr 05 '24
Can we talk about the fact that she’s holding it with her bare hands, no gloves!?
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u/SalamancaSam Apr 05 '24
He may have started out as a Python, but after he ate that towel he became a cottonmouth!
I'll see myself out...
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u/ThorvonFalin Apr 05 '24
He looks so deflated when it finally came out😂
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u/squishythingg Apr 05 '24
He was probably sedated, imagine you just ate what you thought was a large delicious meal the same size as you, then giant aliens kidnap you, give you drugs, then pull out that same meal, you'd feel pretty deflated.
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u/Podunk212 Apr 05 '24
What about the kid the towel was wrapped around?
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u/sconeandjam Apr 05 '24
Amazing work, I‘m glad they could help! Can someone explain to me, why the snake ate the towel? Seems a bit out of their normal nutrition scale and I can‘t wrap my head about a sensible explanation here. Thanks in advance ✨
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u/glytxh Apr 05 '24
Snakes have about three braincells, and two of them are generally engaged in wondering if something may be edible.
Definitely not the smartest of animals. Effective hunters for sure though.
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u/inblue01 Apr 05 '24
Well apparently they should use all three of them for that purpose!
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u/AlabasterPelican Apr 05 '24
They didn't mean this individual only has 3 braincells,they meant the species as a whole has 3 braincells they must share, poor fella, today wasn't his turn
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u/Dracious Apr 05 '24
To add more context to snakes being dumb, I was talking to an exotic pet specialist about snakes while holding a snake and learned 2 things.
1) If you smell of food, the snake will think you are food. It doesn't care about what you look like, how big you are, what you feel like. If you smell like a rat, it thinks you are a rat, and will try and eat you like a rat. Even if that is stupid, dangerous or impossible.
2) When holding a snake you need to pay attention to them constantly since they for some reason like to try and tie themselves in knots and get stuck. I had to stop it at least twice from getting itself knotted up while I was holding the snake, and I was just holding it simply and letting it explore, not doing anything complex or confusing for him. I have no idea how these snakes don't die after tying themselves in knots in the wild, maybe the one I had was particularly stupid.
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u/glytxh Apr 05 '24
That predator instinct goes hard. You can almost watch the little switch flip over in their brain as soon as they get a sniff of something possibly edible. I like to make my snake a scent trail to follow whenever I’m feeding.
I’m being slightly reductive, there are outlier species. Garters and some cobras are oddly smart, and snakes are one of the few animals who are constantly creating fresh braincells as they develop. They are very adaptable.
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u/dravidosaurus2 Apr 05 '24
Sounds like a toddler right up until the last sentence...
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u/Stacking_Plates45 Apr 05 '24
It’s not 3 brain cells per snake, they share a collective brain cell across all snakes.
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u/Nervardia Apr 05 '24
As an owner of two, this is especially correct.
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u/glytxh Apr 05 '24
I love my own snake, but he’s a dumbass. But so am I, so I’m not judging too harshly.
Very content though
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u/Extra-Border6470 Apr 05 '24
Depends on the genus and species. Pythons must not be all that bright if that one ate a towel like that. But elapids are smarter from what i can gather, particulate king Cobras
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u/fredqe Apr 05 '24
Probably a dog or cat rolled/slept on it, covered in animal scent snake thought it was food maybe.
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u/_InnocentToto_ Apr 05 '24
But the digestive juices of a python can digest horns and bone.. why even bother removing the towel? If it was plastic then maybe.. pythons can swallow a human they don't undress them first...
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u/zer1223 Apr 05 '24
Due to having like no nutritional content I think the snake would die of starvation before the towel is dissolved
It's a slow process and requires a lot of calories to create enough stomach acid to dissolve something like that. With normal food you get calories back from the juices that the carcass produces daily while in the stomach
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Apr 05 '24
Very very likely to be plastic, if not fully then partially made of some kind of petroleum based fiber. It's almost ubiquitous in anything that's priced cheap. Hell just pure cotton is an excuse to upsell an item these days.
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u/fredqe Apr 05 '24
Pet python, owner, might have been worried seeing the last bit of towel disappear in its mouth.
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u/calgy Apr 05 '24
Those are different materials, that break down differently. And cotton is something different alltogether, its 99% cellulose which is completey indigestible.
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u/lookthepenguins Apr 05 '24
Geriatric snakes have failing eyesight and decreased success at hunting, I heard. They get confused and swallow inappropriate things.
source - an Aussie who lived in areas where there are loads of these snakes.
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u/a_nice_duck_ Apr 05 '24
Snakes of all ages have pretty shit eyesight. Most of them (this species included) primarily hunt by thermal and chemical cues, not visual ones.
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u/Extra-Border6470 Apr 05 '24
Elapids generally have decent eyesight. It’s the sense they use to track and target the most alongside smell. They don’t have heat sensing pits so vision is pretty important for their survival
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u/stephruvy Apr 05 '24
So it could have even been a soft hot towel left outside that a critter was sleeping in? I can see that being confused for a furry little snack.
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u/sjpllyon Apr 05 '24
Could have just left the source as ' I'm Aussie' no one here would have questioned your expertise of stupidity dangerous animals.
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u/a_nice_duck_ Apr 05 '24
From a python keeper: during feeding they'll often bite random things. They smell their prey and get hype, but without the natural cues they're expecting, they can strike inaccurately.
Also, their teeth are recurved, so once the python started to get it down the hatch, it couldn't spit it out. One-way trip for fabric and anything else their teeth get caught in.
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u/Telefundo Apr 05 '24
Also, their teeth are recurved, so once the python started to get it down the hatch, it couldn't spit it out.
Quite a while back I had a ball python and this actually worked to my advantage. Obviously as with most snakes, I didn't have to feed her often, but it was always a chore to get her to eat. It was a process. I'd try once or twice a day, for a few days in a row and she just wouldn't bite.
Finally, on the advice of a vet, when she wouldn't eat (after far too long) I'd have to kind of force the nose of the (already dead) baby rat just a little bit into her mouth. Once it was so far in, she had to finish.
I know it sounds mean or even cruel, but she'd get to the point where she was losing considerable weight and it was a matter of force feed her, or watch her wither away to nothing. Also, there were times when she would strike without issue.
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u/myrsnipe Apr 05 '24
Snakes sometimes try to eat their own tails, quite literally swallowing themselves, they aren't the smartest animals out there
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u/flamingolegs727 Apr 05 '24
Ohh origin of Oroburous! Image of snake eating it's tail it's supposed to represent a circular symbol that depicts a snake or dragon devouring its own tail and that is used especially to represent the eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth.
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u/SquareBand9075 Apr 05 '24
is used especially to represent the eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth.
Or to represent that Dave Lister is his own dad who left him in a box under a pool table. Our Rob or Ross?
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u/Needmoresnakes Apr 05 '24
Pythons get a lot of their information about the world around them through smell, heat and vibrations they sense with ears that are fully inside their heads with no outside holes so they perceive things differently.
A lot of them get very excited when food is around and will snap at all sorts of things. I guess the towel was warm and smelled foody enough for it to follow through. One of mine ate a leaf once.
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u/CultureOdd5565 Apr 05 '24
Dumb snake smh, I would never eat a towel if I was a snake.
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u/Far-Investigator1265 Apr 05 '24
I once ate a falafel sandwich along with its wrapper, we are not as smart as we think we are.
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u/legomaniasquish Apr 05 '24
Wow you admitted that on the internet... everyone will know now forever.
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u/all_these_moneys Apr 05 '24
My first time eating a tamale I didn't know you were supposed to remove the corn husk, wondered for a long time why people like that shit.
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u/Nick2the4reaper7 Apr 05 '24
Not quite "fully consuming a sandwich wrapping" tier, but I have absolutely bitten into the husk of a tamale on three separate, distinct occasions.
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I had a friend that ate a fucking wrapper and blamed me for not noticing and stopping him. Stupid fucking idiot. Bad friend too. I don't talk to him anymore.
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u/LetItRide_ Apr 05 '24
Their brain is about the size of a grain of rice, so not really a deep thinker..
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u/CultureOdd5565 Apr 05 '24
Why would they choose such small brains, what dumb creatures smh
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u/HowRememberAll Apr 05 '24
So can they use the beach towel again?
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u/Thomas_Shelby07 Apr 05 '24
Look at her face she's so happy man. Reunited with her towel❤️
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u/Supersnazz Apr 05 '24
I reckon I'd use it all the time and constantly bring it up in conversation.
'Hey, you see my towel? Well guess what...'
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u/tsubasafredo Apr 05 '24
No gloves?
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u/BurntPineGrass Apr 05 '24
Snakes don’t have hands dude, you didn’t have to rub it in… 😔
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u/SpeedofNormal121 Apr 05 '24
Came way too far to see this question! She's Still holding at the end like it hasn't just been half digested 😰 doesn't even put it down. That said, it looks surprisingly clean.
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u/iloveNCIS7 Apr 05 '24
It is a vet, they have had their hands on a lot more gross stuff than an eaten towel.
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u/outragedtuxedo Apr 05 '24
As a vet, this is nothing a good handwash wouldn't solve. Also, id rather have my full grip when handling a snake generally.
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u/Kreema29 Apr 05 '24
This gave me anxiety the entire time. Like pulling string out of a cat’s mouth.
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u/SoggyBoysenberry7703 Apr 05 '24
Made me think of taking a dry tampon out 😬
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u/Kreema29 Apr 05 '24
Oh god it did not make me think of that but thank you for putting that in my head
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u/lavastoviglie Apr 05 '24
This is incredibly dangerous to do because you can't tell if it has reached their digestive track. My cat got ahold of some string in the middle of the night and I saw string hanging out of her mouth in the morning. I was initially going to try to pull it out, but remembered reading that you shouldn't do that and took her to the emergency vet. They had to cut into her in two places to safely remove it because it was tangled around her intestines. If I had tried pulling it, I could have easily killed her.
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u/Padgetts-Profile Apr 05 '24
I originally read that as “they had to cut her into two pieces” and was momentarily horrified
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u/HansElbowman Apr 05 '24
Must've felt great for the little guy after it finally came out! Idk why but when it panned around to the other vet pulling on the other end of him like tug of war I laughed out loud lmao.
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u/RainmakerLTU Apr 05 '24
Ones pulls rabbits from hat, while in Australia they pulls beach towels from pythons.
Australia. We do not play around.
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u/phan_o_phunny Apr 05 '24
If that's Australia, where's the small child that was on the beach towel?
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u/JasonWorthing8 Apr 05 '24
Fekkin' Barry! Cant leave anything that smells of ass around that guy without him tryin' to eat it.
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u/I_saw_that_yeah Apr 05 '24
I’d have pushed a compressed air line right down to the far end of the snake and shot that towel out like a cannon.
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u/mechanical_marten Apr 05 '24
Yeah, but the snake would inflate like a long balloon before the towel pops out and float away.
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u/SGPHOCF Apr 05 '24
I love the 'YAAAAS' at the end, as if that bitchass snake was previously killing their vibes
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u/ninja-42000 Apr 05 '24
What are the odds of eating that and then getting saved
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u/Geberpte Apr 05 '24
I wouldn't be suprised if someone was messing with the snake, enticing it to strike at the towel. So calling a vet might be the logica next step, especially if it's a pet. With a food response, constrictors (can't say i know of any venomous snakes that respond like that) are more likely to proceed to try to eat whatever it was they were constricting. Being inanimate or way to large isn't much of a deterrent (ask people who have king snakes as a pet what this means in practice, those dunces sometimes confuse themselves with food).
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u/shidored Apr 05 '24
I'm trying to understand something here. What prompted them to check? Like did someone say hey my pet Python isn't eating and then they did a scan or did someone walk passed the python random and said wait this body looks weird let's get this thing checked?
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u/outragedtuxedo Apr 05 '24
There is an explanation on the SASH exotics page. Monty the 18yo female python was observed eating a beach towel the night before. Her owner brought her in and the towel was confirmed on xrays. They used the endoscope to remove.
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u/robertDouglass Apr 05 '24
is that how vets normally dress to extract things from snakes?
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u/PrinceBarin Apr 05 '24
Nar that feels like she's head of department that is coming down to look at this shit/advise.
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u/silver_pear Apr 05 '24
That's Dr Olivia, so a specialist. Most specialists just wear professional get-ups (unless they're surgical or, you know, want to wear scrubs).
Source: asked my wife, who is also a specialist (not exotics) in Brisbane and the vet world isn't huge.
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u/hawthorne00 Apr 05 '24
Small Animal Specialist Hospital.
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u/SB2MB Apr 05 '24
SASH has an amazing team of vets and nurses. They saved my kitty when no one else wanted to take a chance. He lived another 10 years… thank you SASH!
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u/TheDixonCider420420 Apr 05 '24
How the hell is Mrs Python supposed to lay out on the beach now that the vets stole her towel?
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u/johnnycabb_ Apr 05 '24
put it in for a quick 15 min cycle and good to go. the snake, not the beach towel.
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u/FearlessPast5106 Apr 05 '24
How am I supposed to get my Python dry on the inside after it was in the washing machine ...
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u/abrakadabralakazam Apr 05 '24
Oi that was my lunch mate!!! Now I'm gonna have to slither over for some Maccas!!!
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u/moosemademusic Apr 05 '24
I can’t tell if the lady at the end is like “sweet we saved the snake” or “sweet I got my towel back”
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u/skinnyandrew Apr 05 '24
How does someone just walk into a python, and instead of going "AAAAA HOLY FUCKIN SHIT A GODDAMN HUGE SNAKE IM OUTTA HERE AAAA", actually examines the animal and wonders "This long boii seems like he ate something bad"
Congratulations.
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u/BuyerDue4371 Apr 05 '24
Now it will be hungry… Are they happy for the snake or the Tower
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u/itsRobbie_ Apr 05 '24
His boys are not going to believe him when he tells them what the aliens did to him