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Pet snake escapes, bites the hand that feeds it
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-08-28 10:23

Pet snake escapes, bites the hand that feeds it

A young man named Li Xu from Tonghua, a city of Jilin province, might be considering keeping a budgie since one of his three pet vipers recently bit and almost killed him.

Li found the vipers a few months ago and decided to keep them as pets in the warehouse where he works.

His tender care, however, was lost on the ungrateful reptiles, as one of them unexpectedly jumped out of its bag on Aug 16 and bit him on the finger.

After collapsing Li was rushed to a hospital, fortunately in time for doctors to administer an anti-snake venom serum sent from a hospital in Changchun, capital of the province. "He is now recovering well, thanks to the serum," doctors said on Monday.