A farmer was shocked after he returned home to find a 15ft long python wrapped around a tree in his garden. <br /><br />Rittirong Kongkaew, 38, raised the alarm after he heard his pet dog barking at the snake in Krabi, Thailand, last Thursday. <br /><br />The bachelor said he tried to wrestle with the snake himself - but the 15kg serpent was ''too strong''.<br /><br />Wildlife workers arrived and found the reticulated python wrapped around a low hanging branch in Rittirong's back garden. <br /><br />They eventually bagged it up and released it back into the wild. <br /><br />Rittirong said: ''I had taken fishing nets to fish in the canal, not far from home. When I put the nets back home, I heard the dog barking loudly.<br /><br />''The snake was approaching the chicken. So I tried to catch it myself. But the snake was very strong. Can not be caught I need to help rescue. Luckily, they had not eaten the chicken yet.''
