Walk to beat heart attack
Now has monster in 3-bed house
dangerous towards them but you have to use common sense and I’m a responsible pet owner.” Marcus said Hexxie is laid back as she is used to being touched.
He said: “The only way to stop her biting you is handle her every day when she is young until she gets used to it.”
But he says both snakes have attacked him in the past. He said Hexxie became distressed when he had to apply iodine for a skin infection. Marcus said: “She went for me. Not properly, more of a back off, get away type of thing. Her mouth is full of hundreds of teeth like fish hooks. If she gets hold of you, you cannot pull your hand out because all the teeth are going the wrong way.”
Amy has got used to the reptiles. She said: “They carry a lot of stigma, but they grow on you.”
But she added: “I’m more your fluffy, cute type of animal person.”
WENDY Higgins, of animal charity the Humane Society, said: “Keeping wild animals as pets is not good for animal welfare or human safety. Snakes belong in their natural environment, not in a semi-detached house. “A constricting snake of that length is a potential hazard to human life, more than capable of killing a child. “They are extremely powerful predators. This case makes me think of a recent case in the US, where a woman was found dead with an 8ft snake wrapped around her neck.” Wendy adds: “At least eighteen people have died from large constrictor snake-related incidents in the US since 1978 — 13 of those since 1990. In 2006, in Indiana, a 23-year-old man was killed by his 14ft python.” length of Hexxie when owner Marcus Hobbs first bought her
HEART attack patients can increase their survival chances by walking half an hour a day, research shows.
If they keep it up they can cut the risk of another attack by 40%, found the Harvard University study.
Leader Dr Laila Al-Shaar said: “It’s never too late to pick up physical activity.”