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Goat thief turns out to be 6-metre python
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Fri, Oct 17, 2008
New Straits Times
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>REMBAU, MALAYSIA - The owner of an orchard had thought that a thief was trying to steal his goats when he heard noises coming from the livestock enclosure yesterday morning. Instead, he got a shock when the thief turned out to be a six-metre-long reticulated python.
The python had swallowed four goats at Dusun Sega Hilir here before Datuk Misran Sakudi, 48, found it.
"I was on my routine check at the orchard about 7am when I heard a noise.
"I thought someone was trying to steal my goats or that the animals were trying to escape, so I quickly rushed to the enclosure.
"I was shocked to see a python swallowing one of my goats. Together with my workers, we wrestled the snake because I wanted to save the goat," he said yesterday.
After several minutes, Misran and his workers managed to subdue the snake but they were unable to save the goat.
"Earlier last year, another python was caught while it was eating some of my chickens. Maybe, this is the culprit behind the disappearance of three of my goats last month," he said, adding that the python would be released at a nearby forest.
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