An Australian sheepdog called Tess is fighting for his life after saving his owner from a deadly snake attack, local media reported Wednesday. Tallebudgera Valley retiree Fay Palethorpe, 68, was in the garden of her huge property on the Gold Coast when she came across the two-meter eastern brown snake.

A Portland man almost died when he tested fate and put his pet rattlesnake in his mouth. Of course, the risky behavior came after a few beers with his friends, but nonetheless it nearly got him killed.

Atlanta airport security officers were shocked when they found strange critters while screening luggage. When they opened the luggage, they found venomous creatures inside. Jon Allen, Transportation Security Administration spokesman said, a man flying from South Korea to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport had 30 dead snakes in jars and bottles inside boxes when they checked his luggage.

Police in Northern Ireland arrested a man for hurting his girlfriend and torturing her pet snake. Shane Cooke bit his girlfriend Coleen McGleenon 's pet snake in half during a fight and remarked that it "tasted lovely," lawyers testified Friday.

A 22-year-old Saudi man was stopped at Cairo airport after boarding an airplane bound to Saudi Arabia, when his carry-on bags were found to have been filled with live snakes, baby crocodiles and chameleons. According to security officials, they became suspicious when the man's bags were taken to the X-ray machine and found odd readings. Police officials opened the bags and found large number of reptiles with one cobra, trying to escape.