Naked Australian Man Wrestles Giant Python to Save his Kitten

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From https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/939epz/naked-australian-man-wrestles-giant-python-to-save-his-kitten

Naked Australian Man Wrestles Giant Python to Save his Kitten

"There was no way I was going to stand by and let it eat the kitten."

By Gavin Butler
04 May 2020, 8:41am

This article originally appeared on VICE AU.

Nick Kearns was sleeping, naked, in the bedroom of his Kimberley home last month when he awoke to the sound of his partner screaming. The problem, he realised, was that a giant, 2.5-metre python was in his garden attacking one of his pet kittens: coiling its body around the animal in preparation to eat it.

Nick, who had completed a snake handling course several years before, sprung into action.

"I jumped up—naked of course—and ran outside," he told the ABC. "I just couldn't unwrap it.”

While his partner held the tail of the snake, Nick grabbed a hold of the reptile’s body and tried to wrest his cat from its coils.

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[mitch96]

1. Now that takes "Naked and afraid" to a new level!! nt

[WePurrsevere]

2. I must admit that I was afraid to look but so glad it turned out that he saved his kitten.

[Fla Dem]

3. Glad it turned out OK, but why are his kittens allowed outside with pythons around?

I can never understand people who allow their animal /pets free range outside and then are devastated when they never come home, are attacked by wild animals, run over by cars. What did they expect?

[Amy-Strange]

4. I don't know why other people do it, but...

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if you've ever had a kitten die in a house fire, you'd know why I do it.

Sure, it would devastate me if they died while outside, and it has happened once, but at least it was by their own choice, rather than suffering and dying inside a house during a fire, because I forced them to stay inside.

That's my reason anyway.
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[LisaL]

5. So you never let them into the house?

I find your reasoning very puzzling.

[Amy-Strange]

6. Why would I do that?

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I keep a window open enough so she can get in and out whenever she wants.
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[Fla Dem]

7. Oh ok, the poor cat who died outside, Oh well it was their choice. Too bad, so sad.

And just how many house fires have you had that if a cat was in the house died.

[Amy-Strange]

8. More in a fire, than outside by choice...

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2 because I forced them to die inside, and 1 because he had a choice.
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