A teenager from South Africa has developed an unusual yet strong bond with a 10-foot long Burmese long python, a bond that has been sustained for two years. The teenager, 11th-grader Simone Naidoo, got the python named Theo after falling in love with snakes at 10 years old. She saw the slithery creatures displayed at a window during a grade school fair.

Police arrested a 35-year old man Tuesday on charges of cruelty to animals after he was found to have a 14-foot python wrapped around his body while strolling along a highway. Long Island's Suffolk County police identified the suspect as Curtis Dewberry of Wading River.

Golf balls swallowed by and extracted from a snake were placed for sale on eBay, with the highest bid totalling $1,401 Australian, or $1,253 US. The four balls which were taken from inside a carpet python at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary last week were posted for sale on the online auction, still unwashed. The winner will also receive X-rays and photographs of Augusta, the python, with the balls still inside, and after the balls were taken out by surgery.

Jackie Bibby, the "Texas Snake Man," set another bizarre world record by spending about 45 minutes in a see-through bathtub with 87 rattlesnakes Monday. Bibby's feat shattered his own record by 12 snakes just in time for Guinness World Records Day, which is Thursday.

A doberman in Australia that was rescued earlier from an animal shelter, repaid his new owners in time by saving their 17-month-old daughter from a deadly snake. Khan, as his new owners call him, picked up Charlotte Svillicic by his teeth and threw her over his shoulder.