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Related: About this forumSnake eats towel: A vet explains her strangest day at work
Do you know where your towel is? Maybe it's in your pet python, inevitably called 'Monty':
It could have been the end for Monty the jungle carpet python, who got a bit peckish recently and decided to eat an entire beach towel.
Footage of vet Dr Olivia Clarke and her team extracting it from Monty's stomach was posted online and went viral.
Speaking to the BBC, Dr Clarke explains how she saved Monty's life when she was brought into her surgery in Sydney.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-51688609/snake-eats-towel-a-vet-explains-her-strangest-day-at-work
Footage of vet Dr Olivia Clarke and her team extracting it from Monty's stomach was posted online and went viral.
Speaking to the BBC, Dr Clarke explains how she saved Monty's life when she was brought into her surgery in Sydney.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-51688609/snake-eats-towel-a-vet-explains-her-strangest-day-at-work
Video at link, or this:
This raises the question of whether a carpet python has ever eaten a carpet ...
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Snake eats towel: A vet explains her strangest day at work (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2020
OP
i had to pull about 20 ft or more of yarn out of a stupid cat. luckily my cats were not yarn eaters.
pansypoo53219
Feb 2020
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janterry
(4,429 posts)1. I'm so sure that's a cool video and all but
I don't think I could stomach watching it .
(poor snake)
muriel_volestrangler
(102,744 posts)2. You'll be glad to know the snake has recovered fully
and is now eating her normal diet.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)3. All with no gloves! Yuck!!
pansypoo53219
(21,833 posts)4. i had to pull about 20 ft or more of yarn out of a stupid cat. luckily my cats were not yarn eaters.
MuseRider
(34,424 posts)5. That had to be entirely
horrible for Monty! I hope she sticks to her regular diet (I know I know, I used to work at the zoo and took care of some big ones!).
3Hotdogs
(13,704 posts)6. Monty: (Interview by BBC) "Boy, did I fuck up."