Mom awoken by cat finds python wrapped around 2-year-old daughter

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

An Australian woman was awoken by her hissing cat early Sunday to find a python wrapped around the arm of her 2-year-old daughter.

Tess Guthrie, a 22-year-old from Lismore, New South Wales, said the 6-foot python was wrapped three times around her daughter's arm.

"I thought I was having a nightmare," Guthrie told a local television news station. "It was only because the cat was hissing that I woke up and saw the snake with its body wrapped around my daughter Zara’s arm."

The toddler was sleeping in the bed with Guthrie, who pried the snake off her. But before she could, the nonvenomous python bit the toddler three times on her left hand.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/python-baby-mom-wrapped-cat-175346395.html

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[samsingh]

1. scary

[southernyankeebelle]

2. I am assume this snake wasn't a pet, right?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. From what I can tell, no. "The coastal python (or "carper snake") was captured by a local wildlife

official and eventually released back into the wild."

[think]

7. Article says the snake was released back into the wild so probably not a pet /nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Good kitty.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Usually Yahoo comments are a cesspool. But I liked this one: "Get that Kitty some Catnip and a

velvet pillow!"

[Kooljas]

4. I pictured the kitty gingerly pawing at the woman's face.

Until i read, "hissing".

[Romulox]

8. Cats are extraordinary animals. Smarter than dogs, imo, but 5x as stubborn! nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. Having 2 of them at home this cracks

me up:





















http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php

[Kooljas]

29. Kitten

[backscatter712]

9. Yikes. Even python bites can be nasty.

They're not venomous, but they do have a mouth full of sharp teeth.

[lastlib]

32. and they don't brush them regularly!

[slackmaster]

11. Good kitteh!

A six foot python is dangerous especially to a small child.

But an eight foot python is a whole lot worse. For a year I lived in a house that had two of them. Fortunately they were nice, most of the time.

[Arkana]

12. Fucking snakes.

FUCKING snakes.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. Are you saying you've had it with these motherfuckin' snakes on this

motherfuckin' bed?

[Arkana]

18. I HATE SNAKES, JOCK!

I HATE 'EM!

[Skidmore]

19. I hear you and I used to be able to tolerate

sharing a planet with them. However, several years ago we lived in a farmhouse briefly in which we discovered that we had bullsnakes, some of them quite large, for housemates. I was never so happy to move out of a place in all of my life. Now I get the heeby-geebies just thinking about it.

[backscatter712]

37. Bull snakes can definitely scare the hell out of you.

They can get fairly big (though not as big as a python), and their primary defense tactic is to pretend to be a rattlesnake. They have a hiss that sounds like a rattlesnake rattle, their markings are close to rattlers', and they coil up in the same way rattlers do.

[Skidmore]

40. I startled one coming around into the hall from the kitchen one day.

My husband is morbidly fearful of snakes and his reactions to seeing one were sometimes more heartstopping that running into it myself. I just don't care to live in the same space with snakes.

[backscatter712]

34. C'mon! Show a little backbone, will ya. N/t

[maxrandb]

13. Is the NRA calling for a cat in every home?

Just think of all the deaths and crimes that have been stopped by kitties!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. The "NCA" is having a press conference this

afternoon.

[MrMickeysMom]

20. That's great... Is it Sox?

I'm figuring that cat at least had one press photo op!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

22. I think so. BTW not even he was able to escape the insanity of the 'Puke Congress.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1583652

[MrMickeysMom]

23. !!!

He didn't have opposable thumbs!!!!

[Kooljas]

30. Looks like a Kitler to me.

http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

33. Now those are terrifying! nt

[maxrandb]

38. They can have my tabby

when they pry it from my cold dead hands!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

39. I'm sure your tabby says the same thing about his human. "From my cold dead furry paws!!!" :-p

[maxrandb]

41. Point being

we don't need more guns...we need more cats!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

42. Indeed. I also had to edit to add the word "sure". I did not mean to imply

I was your tabby that would be weird...... not to mention scientifically awesome (if true)!

[treestar]

16. Go cat!

[tradecenter]

17. Good Kittah.

Cats are very smart animals.

[jpak]

21. Crikey!

Good kitteh

[Quantess]

24. Good kitty!

[ecstatic]

25. omfg! nt

[Comrade_McKenzie]

26. Snake: An animal that no one not living in isolation without kids need. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. This was a wild snake that got in the house, not a pet.

But I'd agree - if you have little kids you shouldn't have large constrictor-type snakes as pets.

[backscatter712]

36. Depends on the snake.

I'm not particularly concerned about a foot long garter snake, for example.

Six foot pythons are problematic, and rattlesnakes definitely don't make good pets.

[dkf]

27. Cats rock!

[Arugula Latte]

28. Yay for the kitties!

They make life worth living.

[Gormy Cuss]

31. I remember reading that one theory of why cats were domesticated was that they alert on snakes

in the house.
I'm impressed that the hissing woke up the mother.

[JCMach1]

43. my old cat saved my daughter getting bitten by a baby

Rattlesnake... she was following my daughter on a path between our houses in rural florida. She pounced growled and attacked the snake in site just inches from my daughter's bare feet.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. Your post title says

"my old cat saved my daughter getting bitten by a baby" which startled me a bit until I read the text.

[JCMach1]

45. lol... baby rattlesnake

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