Snake ends belly up in chook hunt
A BELLYFUL of chickens was the bump in the road that finally proved too hard to swallow for this 2m python.
After killing six pet chickens in two raids, the python came undone when its belly became too big to fit through an escape hole.
The python only ate one of the chickens because it could not fit the rest in its mouth.
It would suffocate and try to eat the chickens, only to spit them out after its jaw would not detach enough to digest them.
On its sixth attempt it was able to eat one of the chooks, but the python's belly became too big to fit through a hole it was using to get into the coop.
Homeowner Luke Ronlund reinforced his coop twice to stop the raids at his Edmonton property, only to find the snake's persistence was its downfall.
"The snake kept coming in trying to eat them, but it couldn't fit them in its mouth so they were just left there dead and slimy," he said.
Mr Ronlund has three chickens left which he originally bought as family pets.
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