An Australian dog owner who went to the backyard to let her pet off its overnight chain found a huge python in the kennel and her beloved chihuahua-Maltese cross deep inside its stomach.
Only the dog’s chain was left protruding from the snake’s mouth.
The 2.5m (8ft) carpet python had swallowed whole the dog that had been chained up inside the kennel in northern New South Wales.
The distraught owner called volunteers from the Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service (Wires) to her home near the town of Lismore. They found the snake in the kennel.
Wires Northern Rivers secretary,