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School janitor finds 3-foot python in locker

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

I hate it when that happens!  But on the upside it didn’t happen in Texas where the janitor would likely have been armed and shot up the whole place LOL

Janitor cleaning out lockers at Mass. school watches as 3-foot-long python falls at his feet

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — A custodian cleaning out lockers at a Massachusetts high school was so shocked when a 3-foot-long snake fell at his feet that he didn’t even think it was real.

Ed Reardon tells The Daily News Tribune that at first he thought it was a change purse. Then he thought it was a rubber snake.

Then it coiled into attack mode.

Reardon didn’t panic. He grabbed it behind the head as he had seen on nature TV shows. When he got off work at Newton North High School, he brought it to a local pet store, where workers identified it as a ball python.

Reardon thinks a student left the snake in the locker at the end of school as a prank. He found a notebook in the same locker with a student’s name on it, and turned it over to the principal.

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Woman says Chihuahua died saving her kids

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Northern Calif. woman says family’s Chihuahua died protecting her kids from pit bull invaders

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California woman says her Chihuahua died protecting her children from two pit bulls that got into her apartment.

Mayda Estrella, of Richmond, says the family’s Chihuahua, named Manchas, jumped in between the canine invaders and her 4-year-old son Sunday. A pit bull grabbed Manchas with its jaws and carried the Chihuahua away.

Contra Costa County animal services officials say the Chihuahua was killed, and the pit bulls are now in custody.

The pit bulls’ owner says they had escaped their yard by chewing through a fence. Estrella says her front door was open when the dogs came in.

She says when she saw the dogs come in, she ran into a bedroom with her other child, a newborn baby.

County officials say the owner won’t face criminal charges.

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Two-faced kitten puzzles veterinarian

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

4284c4c1 6284 4885 a3e2 a62ee719ef2d big1 300x200 Two faced kitten puzzles veterinarianKitten born with two faces with two mouths that act independently puzzles W. Va. veterinarian

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The kitten born with two faces in Charleston was given a 50 percent chance of survival by an area veterinarian. The kitten known as Two Face brought the animal to the vet shortly after it was born on Wednesday because its mother refused to nurse the kitten. Dr. Erica Drake said the kitten was born with a rare condition called diprosopus, which means the kitten literally has two faces. Two Face has four eyes, two noses and two mouths.

Drake said the kitten’s two mouths act independently and she believes each mouth has a separate esophagus leading to one stomach. It’ll take a closer look at the kitten’s internal anatomy before known about how the kitten will be able to function.

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Snakes alive: Hotel guest spots python in toilet

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Snakes snakes everywhere and not a pot to pee in LOL.   I tell you that would scare you a bit to open the lid and have a python looking up at you.   It’s time to find a new place to spend the night!

LA VISTA, Neb. (AP) — A woman reported finding a python in the toilet of her La Vista hotel room. Officials with the Nebraska Human Society estimate the python found Thursday morning at the Hampton Inn was about 3 years old. They said pythons aren’t typically found in the wild, so it’s likely this python was a pet.

Hotel officials declined to comment.

Information from: KETV-TV, http://www.ketv.com

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