A hungry python silently snatched a dog from its owner’s bed before crushing and devouring it on the spot.
Nelia Scheepers woke up to find 10 year-old Goofy ‘squeaking’ in agony as she was being suffocated by the 10ft snake which was coiled around her body.
Mrs Scheepers, who lives alone on a remote farm in South Africa, raced from the room with her other dogs but was too late.
When the 60 year-old later looked into the room, the python had ‘unlocked its jaws and was swallowing Goofy whole’, she told MailOnline from her home in Louis Trichardt, 300 miles north of Johannesburg.
The bulge of the ingested medium-sized mongrel could clearly be seen in the python when snake catcher Frikkie Venter arrived to retrieve it from Mrs Scheepers’ farmhouse some hours later.
‘That snake won’t have to eat for another three weeks now,’ Mr Venter told MailOnline.
‘It is unusual for pythons to go anywhere near human dwellings, but it was obviously very hungry. Summer temperatures are also very high and its normal food sources are now harder to catch. It may also have been looking for shade.’
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