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    'What a sneaky snake! Aussie mom finds python coiling around 2-year-old daughter in bed, biting her hand 3 times'

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    News 'What a sneaky snake! Aussie mom finds python coiling around 2-year-old daughter in bed, biting her hand 3 times'

    Post by Chris Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:34 pm

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/aussie-mom-finds-python-coiling-2-year-old-daughter-biting-hand-article-1.1234713#ixzz2HInAKULc

    quote]What a sneaky snake! Aussie mom finds python coiling around 2-year-old daughter in bed, biting her hand 3 times
    The nonvenomous snake was later captured. A reptile expert said the python was just trying to have a 'group hug' and likely wasn't trying to kill the girl.
    By Erik Ortiz / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
    Monday, January 7, 2013, 8:16 AM

    'What a sneaky snake! Aussie mom finds python coiling around 2-year-old daughter in bed, biting her hand 3 times' Article-python2-0107

    An Australian mom says she woke up to a real-life nightmare: a python gripping her 2-year-old daughter’s arms and sinking its fangs into the girl’s hand.

    Tess Guthrie, 22, said she was sleeping with daughter Zara in bed Saturday when she awoke to the sound of her cat hissing around 3:30 a.m.

    Something was writhing in the bed, she said, so she reached for her cell phone to illuminate it.

    “Automatically, I jumped,” she told the Brisbane Times. “I don’t know if my movement startled the snake, but that’s when it started to constrict around (Zara's) arm and then it just started to strike at her, and it got her three times.”

    Guthrie, who lives in the subtropical town of Lismore, south of Brisbane, told the newspaper her adrenaline kicked in as she feared for her daughter’s life.

    “My thought was it was going to kill her,” she said, adding, “I sort of pulled them apart. I think I threw the snake on the bed and just ran.”

    Guthrie took her daughter to the hospital, where she was discharged that same morning and later showed off her injury to local media. The snake is nonvenomous and kills by constriction.

    “Did it really happen or was it some crazy dream?” asked the dazed mom.

    A snake expert was called in to remove the reptile, which was found slithering behind the bed. The creature was described as a carpet python, which grow to more than 6 feet long and feast on small mammals.

    This particular python measured nearly 10 feet.

    “The snake, not in any way, shape or form, had intended to eat the baby — it was trying to have a group hug,” Tex Tillis, who extracted the snake, told The Daily Telegraph.

    “Pythons, underneath their bottom jaw they have a row of sensors which enable them to see the world in terms of infrared pictures,” Tillis added. “So in the dark, they’re going to see a baby as this warm spot.”

    While the snake failed to seriously hurt her daughter, Guthrie decided she didn’t want the creature killed, and asked for it to be released more than 3 miles away from her home.

    “Not only is she courageous and gutsy," Tillis said of the mom, "but she's compassionate."
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    News Re: 'What a sneaky snake! Aussie mom finds python coiling around 2-year-old daughter in bed, biting her hand 3 times'

    Post by Tony Marino Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:23 pm

    Hopefully it won't find its way back!
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    News Re: 'What a sneaky snake! Aussie mom finds python coiling around 2-year-old daughter in bed, biting her hand 3 times'

    Post by Shale Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:44 pm

    That snake guy is full of it. Probably doing PR for the snake industry.

    A 10 ft python woulda swallowed a 2-year-old if it had not been interrupted.

    That happened here in Miami with an even smaller snake. It got out of its cage one night and killed the owner's baby. That's what those snakes do - they don't hug ya - they squeeze you till you suffocate, then they unhinge their jaws and swallow you.




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    Post by Alan Smithee Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:41 pm

    Australia on the whole has some nasty ass wild life. I'm glad the little girl will be OK (for the most part) but I'm also glad they didn't just kill the snake.
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    Post by Nystyle709 Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:35 pm

    Alan Smithee wrote:Australia on the whole has some nasty ass wild life. I'm glad the little girl will be OK (for the most part) but I'm also glad they didn't just kill the snake.

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    Post by wants2laugh Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:00 am

    hopefully the baby is young enough to not be traumatized by the incident

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