Central Thailand

4 metre python caught after eating school’s pets

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:50

PHOTO: Siamrath

Cats and chickens have been going missing at a central Thailand school for the past month or so. Turns out they ended up in the stomach of a 4 metre, 70 kilogram python. The Pranchanukul Rescue Team in Ratchaburi eventually caught the python yesterday and released into the wild, away from villages. Ratchaburi is on the Burmese border, west of Bangkok.

The janitor at the Wat Aranyikawat Temple School was trying to figure where the animals were going and kept an eye out for a potential predator. Yesterday, he saw the large reptile slither into a pond. After he reported the sighting he tried to track down the snake and found a large cat being eaten by the giant snake. It was the school’s last cat. The janitor tried to intervene, but the snake tried to attack him.

He called the experts in instead.

SOURCE: Thai Residents

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2 Comments

Michael Lewis

Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 10:59 am

Caught and kept one of these in a chainlink enclosure in my garden some years back. It was also a young one about 4m long and very strong. Its a Burmese Python and strikes in a very positively violent manner. Extremely dangerous, beware and keep your distance. We had enough of the risks after a month we teturned it to nature a long way off.

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- Steven Morgan
  
  Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 8:27 pm
  
  That’s a reticulated python
  
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Caitlin Ashworth

Caitlin Ashworth is a writer from the United States who has lived in Thailand since 2018. She graduated from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies in 2016. She was a reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette In Massachusetts. She also interned at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia and Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida.

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