Summer heat: Time for crazy stories from the news! In the last Time magazine, I read about a python that needed surgery after it swallowed a queen-size electric blanket. Fortunately not plugged in. Standing in line at the store, I saw a tabloid headline about an elderly man who committed suicide because he couldn't stand the heat any longer. Roberta in D
Roberta - I saw the snake story on the news. That snake was HUGE! I think they said it was 8 ft long - they had the longest surgical table I've ever seen at that vet's office. The blanket was successfully removed. I didn't hear if it was at a zoo or someone's pet???
Patti in Seattle
Well, in the snake category, my mother's next door neighbor lives in a house that is prolly 100 yrs old (my g'ma was born in it and she is 84.) The neighbor has had 4 snakes in her house this year. There was one exactly 48" long stretched out on the floor at the end of her bed. It did not move. She got the carpenter's rule and measured it. Still didn't move. Finally she got the snake to leave the house by tapping the ruler on either side of the snake's head. It would move in the direction opposite the ruler, and thus she herded the snake out the front door. This was a non-poisonous black rat snake. True story.
LThe snake who ate the blanket lives right here in Idaho - near Sun Valley. He is someone's pet. That story dominated the news here for several days. You should have seen the pictures of the x-rays of the snake with the wires running from one end of his body to the other! The blanket was plugged in when he started eating it. He not only swallowed the blanket, he ate the plug too!
IIRC it was a pet. Roberta in D
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