Surgery removes electric blanket from python

MSNBC ^ | July 20, 2006 | Associated Press

[libstripper]

KETCHUM, Idaho - It took surgery to save a 12-foot Burmese python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket — with the electrical cord and control box.

The blanket must have gotten tangled up in the snake's rabbit dinner, owner Karl Beznoska said. He said he kept the blanket in the 60-pound reptile's cage for warmth.

[libstripper]

For those of you who were concerned about the welfare of our legless friend with an unusual appetite for electric blankets, here's an update, with pictures. Remember: Snakes eat vermin; Clintons and DemonRats are vermin.

[Rabble]

"Clintons and DemonRats are vermin."

Hey, the Clintons' and DemonRats are Snakes as well. Do ya think they could consume themselves?

[mware]

Yeah but the rabbit lived.

[Military family member]

The same thing happened to Alice Cooper's pet snake.

[libstripper]

Please don't call them snakes--it insults snakes.

[rawhide]

Karl Beznoska brings an uncomfortably bulging Houdini to the St. Francis Pet Clinic on Monday.

Veterinarian Karsten Fostvedt looks at X-rays Tuesday of Houdini, a Burmese python that swallowed an entire electric blanket. The X-rays also show the blanket’s electric coils inside the 12-foot-long snake as well as the control box.