Chicken to go for 5-meter python

Rescue workers caught a 5-meter long python that had been helping itself to a Sattahip villager’s chickens, and released the snake into the wild far away from human habitation.

Mrs Prayoon Iamsa-ard, 60, a resident of Moo 8 in Soi Bor 2, Sattahip Sub-district, called the Rotjana Thammasathan Foundation radio center at 2 a.m. on September 6, saying that a snake was eating her chickens. Rescue workers found the reptile crawling through a water drainage pipe beside the chicken coop. They caught it with a noose and put it in a bag.

Prayoon said she breeds domestic fowl to sell at important festivities such as Chinese New Year. She stated that her chickens were regularly lost, and she thought that a human thief was responsible. However, she had never heard any signs of alarm from the coop, and the household dogs had always remained quiet. It was only by chance that she discovered the snake on this particular night, as it helped itself to a chicken takeaway.

Rescue workers took the python to Prince Chumporn Mountain, where it was released into the jungle far from any urban area.

-Pattaya Mail

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14 Sept 2007

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