Man's best friend?

The Jakarta Post - Large python saves Riza and twins:
"'The mother shouted, 'please help save my children. Let me be, but please save my children,'' Riza recounted, in tears.

As she struggled for her own life and that of the twins, she said a large snake as long as a telephone pole approached her. She and the nine-year-olds rested on the reptile, which was drifting along with the current."  ¶ 12/30/2004 11:55:00 AM