It is one thing to dispose of a two foot snake, but when you raise the big boys, the pythons that can get up to 35 foot long and big around as a telephone pole, how do you dispose of the body?
When our pet Wiggly, a Burmese python died, she was 15 feet long and 10 inches thick. She had developed pneumonia, and since snakes only have one lung, that was bad news. We were treating her with medication but she was not getting better. Then one morning she was gone. Python's of that size are big and heavy and hard to handle.
I heard my husband calling for me and as I stepped into the garage I knew we had lost her. He had her stretched out on the floor and was in the process of skinning her. I was a bit shocked by it, and yet again I could not see him not wanting to waste her beautiful skin.
After that job was done we had to figure out what to do with her large body, as it could not be put out with the garbage, but had to be buried.
Luckily, my husband's boss owned a big spot of land and he owned a backhoe. We put Wiggy in a bag and got her to the back of our truck, loaded and ready to go. Then the skin had to be salted down to keep it from spoiling.
Then my husband was off to work and I was left with the clean up and to mourn the loss of our beautiful snake.
The idea of what we did might be shocking to some but after living on a wildlife compound you learn not to waste anything. Wiggly, was given a nice spot and we planted a flowering bush on her grave to remember her by.
Have you ever had a big snake die? What did you do with it's body?
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