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muriel_volestrangler

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Sat Feb 29, 2020, 07:36 AM Feb 2020

Snake eats towel: A vet explains her strangest day at work [View all]

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

Video at link, or this:



This raises the question of whether a carpet python has ever eaten a carpet ...
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