AFP: Australian snake misses the birdie, swallows golf balls
AFP: Australian snake misses the birdie, swallows golf balls: "A couple discovered the one-metre (three-foot) python at their property with four bulges in its stomach and realised it had eaten golf balls placed on nests in a chicken coop to calm broody hens.
They took the ailing serpent to Currimbin Wildlife Sanctuary in Queensland state where senior veterinarian Michael Pyne safely removed the balls.
'Without surgery, it would have certainly died,' Pyne told AFP.
'The golf balls had travelled as far as they could in the snake's system and it was destined for a slow, painful death without surgery.
'You could clearly see the golf balls on the X-rays, so we knew what we were dealing with.'
Pyne said the snake, which is not considered dangerous to humans, was recovering well after the surgery late last month and would soon be released back into the wild, near the property where it was originally discovered."
They took the ailing serpent to Currimbin Wildlife Sanctuary in Queensland state where senior veterinarian Michael Pyne safely removed the balls.
'Without surgery, it would have certainly died,' Pyne told AFP.
'The golf balls had travelled as far as they could in the snake's system and it was destined for a slow, painful death without surgery.
'You could clearly see the golf balls on the X-rays, so we knew what we were dealing with.'
Pyne said the snake, which is not considered dangerous to humans, was recovering well after the surgery late last month and would soon be released back into the wild, near the property where it was originally discovered."
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