A 10ft long python was caught after trying to kill a pet cat inside a Buddhist prayer room.<br /> <br />Piwan Sudathep, 60, was relaxing downstairs when he heard a loud noise on the second floor of the temple in Chonburi, eastern Thailand.<br /> <br />Piwan said he walked into the room and found a huge python trying to eat his pet cat for dinner.<br /> <br />His cat was lucky to survive the ferocious reptile's attacks before he entered the room which scared the snake away.<br /> <br />Piwan said: "I found it trying to eat my kitten when I entered the shrine. Luckily, I found them before anything serious could happen."<br /> <br />The shocked resident grabbed his cat and called the local animal rescuers for help to trap the snake.<br /> <br />The python was found curled up in a set of Buddhist altar tables.<br /> <br />The rescuers arrived and spent almost half an hour hunting the reptile using a pole with a noose before they finally caught it and dragged it out of its hiding place.<br /> <br />One of the rescuers said: "The python must have been hungry because there is a shortage of food in the wild."<br /> <br />They stretched the serpent out for it to be measured before they carefully placed it into a sack to be released later in the woods away from the village.
