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DAILY COMET (Thibodaux, Louisiana) 12 October 05 11-foot Burmese python found in Bayou Blue (Liz Hackenburg)
Photo: Lafourche Parish Animal Control Officer Jean Thibodaux holds Lil’ Bit, an 11-foot, 4-inch Burmese python found in a Bayou Blue neighborhood. Thibodaux said the animal could have been abandoned during the recent storms. He has adopted the snake.
Some Bayou Blue residents were startled by an unexpected visitor clinging to a tree in their neighborhood Friday morning.
An 11-foot, 4-inch Burmese python was wrapped around the base of a tree in a yard at 2163 Bayou Blue Road in Terrebonne Parish, just across the road from the Lafourche Parish line, according to a Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office report.
Animal control officers and deputies who were called to remove the 100-pound snake said the python was a pet that might have been abandoned after hurricanes Katrina or Rita.
“Sometimes pets become too burdensome for people to care for and they release them,” Sheriff’s Office spokesman Larry Weidel said.
Weidel said the frightening appearance of the large snake might have put it in danger from concerned residents if police had not intervened.
“This one would have been shot had we not come and rescued it,” he said.
Lafourche Parish animal control officer Jean Thibodaux took the creature in and named her Lil’ Bit.
The slithery reptile was the second of its kind to make an unexplained appearance in Bayou Blue and subsequently find a home with Thibodaux.
During the summer, Lafourche deputies were called to a home at 113 Marcel St. that had been sold at public auction. A 10-foot baby python was found inside the house.
The female snake had been abandoned and left without food by its owner after the residence was seized by the Sheriff’s Office.
When the python’s owners contacted police to get the abandoned pet back, they declined to claim ownership after being informed they could face animal cruelty charges for leaving the creature in the summer heat for about four months without nourishment, Weidel said at that time.
Thibodaux said he has since named the 80-pound snake Tiny. She has flourished under his care and will one day measure 18 to 27 feet and weigh close to 300 pounds, he said.
Lil’ Bit will reach the same size, Thibodaux said.
He and his wife drove from their home in Cut Off to Houma over the weekend to purchase special heating blankets for the cold-blooded pair.
The blankets will line the snakes’ aquariums to keep them warm during the fall and winter, Thibodaux said.
The animal control officer has a menagerie of nearly 120 animals and uses the furry, feathered and scaly creatures to present educational programs at area schools.
“It’s a zoo on wheels,” Thibodaux said.
11-foot Burmese python found in Bayou Blue

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Bryan, Atlanta GA

1-0-0 Rescued Ball Python - Apep
0-1-0 Rescued Mountain Horned Dragon - Ki
0-0-1 Rescued Aggressive Bearded Dragon - Zeus
0-0-1 Rescued Non-Alpha Green Iguana - Bud
1-1-0 Rescued Rats... no wait... ROTTEN Little Cats - Ra, Bastet
0-0-1 Rescued Dieting Panda Hamster - Mr. Fluffy
0-1-0 Rescued Little Angelic Kitten - Isis
1-0-0 Horse... whoops... BIG Golden Retriever - Jake
0-1-0 Wife
2-0-0 Kids

100 pounds my ass....thats a 40-50 pound snake max.

"A 10-foot baby python was found inside the house." Yeah, sure....that's a baby
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1.0 Angolan Juvie
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LOL, to the likes of us, maybe. But to the general population a garter snake is BIG!! LOLOL

Quig

Hey don't laugh! My cousin's...(insert various relationships here).. knew a guy that was swollowed whole by a garter snake! They can be very deceptive in their size!

I completely missed that part of the article- 10 ft baby... maybe it was a problem with metric / standard units conversion.
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Bryan, Atlanta GA

1-0-0 Rescued Ball Python - Apep
0-1-0 Rescued Mountain Horned Dragon - Ki
0-0-1 Rescued Aggressive Bearded Dragon - Zeus
0-0-1 Rescued Non-Alpha Green Iguana - Bud
1-1-0 Rescued Rats... no wait... ROTTEN Little Cats - Ra, Bastet
0-0-1 Rescued Dieting Panda Hamster - Mr. Fluffy
0-1-0 Rescued Little Angelic Kitten - Isis
1-0-0 Horse... whoops... BIG Golden Retriever - Jake
0-1-0 Wife
2-0-0 Kids