A snake left vets stunned after somehow managing to swallow three golf balls.
The bizarre patient was rushed to hospital with all three items lodged inside its body.
Vets were then faced with the unusual challenge of getting them out safely without resorting to surgery.
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The team heavily sedated the snake before carefully manipulating the golf balls through its body so they could be manually removed, as reported by Need To Know.
Incredibly, all three were successfully retrieved without the reptile needing an operation.
Footage of the extraordinary procedure, which took place at South Texas Avian & Exotic Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, US, has since gone viral.
It has racked up more than five million views after being posted online yesterday (22 September).
Viewers were baffled by how the snake had ended up swallowing the balls.
One person said: “Did his insurance cover this?”
Another person commented: “There’s where my balls went damn.”
A third person wrote: “Is the poor golfer still looking for his/her ball …..”
Someone else suggested: “Poor baby thought they were eggs.”
And another person added: “Poor baby!! Thank God for vets like you.”
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