This week, Fostvedt and Rathfon saved the life of a 12-foot-long Burmese Python named Houdini with emergency surgery. The two doctors removed a queen-sized electric blanket from Houdini's stomach.

It takes a lot to give professional snake wranglers the creeps, but it happened when a group of hunters captured a python plagued by blood-sucking ticks in Florida’s Everglades. If there’s ...