Golf ball Appetite
It seems that a certain carpet python has had an appetite for something other then a nice chicken egg; golf balls!
The python was saved by surgery in Australia after it mistaking four golf balls as chicken egg. A couple in New South Wales had placed the balls in their hen’s nest to encourage it to lay eggs. The eggs disappeared, but in return they got a lumpy looking carpet python.
They took the 32-inch non-venomous snake to the nearby Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, where senior veterinarian Michael Pyne operated to remove the balls from the snake’s intestine.
The snake was making a speedy recovery, Pyne said.
“Those golf balls weren’t moving any further. They were stuck where they were,” Pyne said. “If it hadn’t been found, it would have died for sure.”
