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{'EQ%H$q XP~4jOL] Claim: "Affectionate" python is really just measuring its intended victim.
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=[3I#s?V mam|aRzd [Collected on the Internet, December 2007]
`G6Nk@9. OlQ7Yi> I'd be the first to admit that this sounds like one of those internet horror storys that always happen to a friend of a friend of a friend of... The person that told me says it was her sister.
t d-EB&i\ D<C ZhYJ The sister has a pet python which stopped eating. After a while she got concerned and took it to the vet who could find nothing wrong. He wasn't worried and explained that snakes like this can go quite some time without eating and suggested she take it back home, keep a close eye on it and if it still wasn't eating in a week or two to bring it back in again.
k oZqoP [iB`- dE, So Tuesday of this week she goes back to the vet who can still find nothing wrong and asks if there has been any unusual behavour. She says no. The only thing odd was that a couple of night ago she woke up to find the snake on the bed beside her. She just picked him up and put him back in his tank. Wondering if the snake was seeking warmth he asks if it was curled up on the bed. The girl says "No, that's what was odd. He was lying straight, up and down the bed."
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^YT! "Why? What's wrong with him?" my friend's sister asks.
L-",.U*; PG+ICg "There's nothing wrong with him." The vet says. "He's just starving himself in preparation for a big meal. It's perfectly normal."
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c2-NXSjsW x)5#*Q "He was measuring you!"
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9!}&&]Q` QzCu$ [ My brother told me a story the other week about his girlfriend's friend's sister's boyfriend's friend's friend (you see why I am skeptical).
rt^<=|Z mO(m%3 Apparently this guy had a python for a pet, and it would often escape from its tank. This didn't bother anyone so no one thought much of it. It hadn't been eating lately, and no one knew why.
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[XBp ;WWUxrWif One night the guy had his girlfriend over and she woke up to find the python on the pillow above her head. Naturally she was terrified.
K9:I8E< BbnY9" For the three nights following every time the girl woke up the snake was over her head. Since it still wouldn't eat, the guy took it to the vet.
c"H*9u: 2:Zb'Mj The vet checked it out and said there was nothing wrong with its health, had it been behaving oddly?
+'x|VPY.PG 5$`ihO? "Yes, every time my girlfriend wakes up it's over her head."
IEmtt^C xOp8[6Ga' The vet's reaction was to put the snake down immediately. Why? Because it had been measuring this guy's girlfriend to see if it could eat her, and the reason it hadn't been eating was because it was planning to.
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_ wk'|gI[W Origins: Although stories like these about snake owners being dangerously unaware that their pets are calmly sizing them up as the main courses of their next meals are interesting, they should be classified with other fictional tales of snake scarelore on the following bases:
q!t_qX7u R^{Ow * Pythons don't measure their prey before going after their meals: They grab, they squeeze, they eat. There's little fretting in their nature about relative sizes of intended edibles, nor does all that much go into their thinking process.
58ev (f t9;yyZh To look at it another way, if pythons were in the habit of measuring before striking, they'd starve. Their prey wouldn't willingly wait for them to finish mimicking tape measures before consenting to be eaten; they would hop away to safety as soon as they noticed large snakes stretching out alongside them.
ULkjY1& H3nx8R$j]( * For a snake to slurp up a human, it would not only have to be at least as long as its prospective dinner, but also capable of ingesting the width of the person. While a really big snake could indeed swallow a person's arm, it's quite unlikely that the kinds of snakes typically kept in homes could get its jaws open wide enough to take in an adult human's head and shoulders.
7`thM/fN OxZw;yD * Those who keep fairly large snakes as pets know that it's perfectly normal for their pets to go without food for fairly long periods of time and thus scoff at the notion that a snake's not eating would be cause to rush it to a vet.
;n?H/(6X8> BRhAL1 * No vet would reasonably counsel having a snake put down because it hadn't eaten of late and thus must be planning to make a meal of its owner. (There are other methods for dealing with non-eating snakes, including, in extreme circumstances, force-feeding.)
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