Emergency surgery performed on dangerous python after it swallowed 'Teddy Bear'

zainab quadri

March 2, 2016 4:41 PM

An emergency surgery was performed on an hungry python after it mistook a teddy bear for a good meal.

Emergency surgery performed on dangerous python after it swallowed 'Teddy Bear'

Snake catcher Tony Harrison arrived to remove the dangerous snake from the family home when they told him the serpent had ate a teddy bear.

The snake was removed and rushed to the veterinary clinic.

An X-ray conducted confirmed an intact bear inside the snake’s belly.

After the surgery the python was left with 15 stitches and is currently taking antibiotics as it recovers over the next two weeks before being released again.

Mr Harrison believes the incident could have taken a very different turn.

‘The teddy bear would not have digested and eventually would have compacted in the snakes intestines… infection will eventually set in and the snake will die,’ he said.

Kylie Barba the practice manager at The Vet Lounge said although it is rare to remove objects from serpents it does happen.

‘Retrieving a teddy bear form a snake is definitely a first but our veteran surgeon has removed objects from a number of animals,’ she said.

‘If the people who found the snake didn’t tell Tony they saw him eat the teddy bear the snake would have most definitely died.'