(I like the part where the villagers tied the snake to the tree
rather than killing it... & for some reason I think of Lanny when I
read these kinda things, seems like a bit from one of his wrythings....)
Huge python makes a meal of 11 guard dogs
Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:58am ET
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 (Reuters Life!) - Guard dogs protecting a fruit
orchard in Malaysia have met their match -- a 7.1-metre-long (23-ft-
long) python that swallowed at least 11 hounds before it was finally
discovered by villagers.
"I was shocked to see such a huge python," orchard-keeper Ali Yusof
told the New Straits Times in an article published beneath a picture
of the captured snake, which was almost long enough to span the width
of a tennis court and as thick as a tree trunk.
Villagers did not harm the snake, which was tied to a tree then
handed to wildlife officials, the paper said on Friday.
