The blanket must have gotten tangled up in the snake's rabbit dinner, owner Karl Beznoska said. He kept the blanket in the cage to keep the 60-pound reptile, named Houdini, warm. "Somehow, he was able ...

(Ketchum, Idaho-AP) July 20, 2006 - Apparently its eyes are bigger than its stomach. A 12-foot-long Burmese python needed surgery after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket - with the ...

There are some headlines you just can't resist. Such as this one, in Thursday's Chicago Sun-Times: "Surgery Saves Blanket-Eating Pet Python." What followed is a story out of Ketchum, Idaho, fit for ...