A LITTLE children’s python is recovering after undergoing orthopedic surgery for a protruding rib at a Palmerston veterinary clinic.

A snake catcher has retrieved a massive carpet python from a children's playhouse in the backyard of a family home. Local catcher Luke Huntley was called to a home in Noosa Heads, Queensland, on ...

It might look like an advertisement for the Apple iPod, but the mishap meant the 84-gram children's python, named Pythagoras, had to have the white rubber and plastic removed by a vet.