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Wild video shows the 12-year-old niece of a popular Australian radio host grabbing a massive snake and swinging it around “like a hammer thrower” to rescue her pet guinea pig from its jaws.

Brisbane radio host Kip Wightman shared the footage to Instagram of his niece, Rosie, jumping into action after an 8-foot-long python attacked her beloved pet MaxiBon in the family’s backyard in Eumundi, Queensland.

The girl is seen looking through shrubs to look for her missing pet — then suddenly spotting it in the snake’s jaw.

Rosie then frantically grabs the slithery predator by the tail and begins swinging it around like she was an Olympic hammer thrower, with MaxiBon still in the snake’s mouth.

Rosie was swinging it “like a hammer thrower and screaming at the top of her lungs,” said her dad, Luke Wightman.

Alarmed, the dad then steps in to take over the impromptu guinea pig rescue. He gives the snake a hard pull, causing it to release his daughter’s pet, which scurries to safety unscathed.


  The 12-year-old is seen looking through shrubs to look for her missing pet –before spotting it in the snake’s jaw. Instagram / @kipwightman The 12-year-old is seen looking through shrubs to look for her missing pet –before spotting it in the snake’s jaw. Instagram / @kipwightman

  Australian Rosie Wightman, 12, is seen in a heart-pounding video swinging around a huge snake in a bid to rescue her guinea pig from its jaws. Instagram / @kipwightman Australian Rosie Wightman, 12, is seen in a heart-pounding video swinging around a huge snake in a bid to rescue her guinea pig from its jaws. Instagram / @kipwightman

As the scaly brown-and-white intruder tries to slink away, the dad then grabs it by the tail and hurls it over the garden wall.

“I realized that wasn’t ideal and I chased after it and watched it slither away unhurt, although a little dizzy,” he said.

The snake’s appearance suggested it could be one of several different species known to live in the area, told 7News said — potentially a python or a deadly eastern brown snake.

Rosie later told the local station that she “didn’t even think it through. “I was just like, ‘grab the snake, grab the snake.'”


  The guinea pig was fortunately able to scurry to safety unscathed. Instagram / @kipwightman The guinea pig was fortunately able to scurry to safety unscathed. Instagram / @kipwightman

Her dad said she is “doing amazing.”

“[She is] just super relieved that MaxiBon survived,” the dad told Storyful. “MaxiBon is also doing fine like nothing happened and chilling with his brother, Yochi.”

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