Burmese python swallows heating blanket: X-ray wins contest:
"It's not your everyday foreign body," said Dr. Gregory Rich, the Metairie, Louisiana veterinarian whose 12-foot-long Burmese python patient swallowed the 3-foot-by-4-foot blanket in an attempt to eat a rabbit placed in its cage.
From ReptileChannel.com: "Rich [who works at the West Esplanade Veterinary clinic] has seen plenty of reptiles swallow things they shouldn't. A heating blanket typically isn't one of them.
"But that's what an X-ray [top] of one his patients, a Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) [below], revealed.
"Rich [below]
submitted the X-ray to Veterinary Practice News'third annual X-ray contest. After considering about 60 entries, judges named it the grand prize winner in the professional category.
"Rich said most keepers of large snakes don’t use heating blankets inside their cages. Including one with small snakes generally isn't an issue. 'But to have a heating blanket in with a 65-pound snake,' he said, 'it can consume a 1-pound heating blanket no problem.'"
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