My name is Tal Fineberg. I am the manager of a small game reserve in The Kingdom of Swaziland in Southern Africa.
This incident occurred at Mbuluzi Game Reserve in Swaziland www.mbuluzi.com

The incident occurred on a morning patrol with my anti-poaching dog Kira. She is a Belgian Maliois that I have trained to assist me and be my companion in the bush.
It all started when Kira was ahead of me and took this bite from a huge Southern African Rock Python. She was clearly in distress and she fought back holding the python in her mouth.
I only remembered to switch on the GoPro about a minute into the ordeal so it was quite lengthy and nerve racking ordeal. I think for me mostly as amazingly she didn't seem phased at all and she looked a little disappointed and confused on why we ended the patrol and headed back to the vehicle.
She was so good at listening to me (after a few repeated commands) even with a huge reptile firmly attached to her.

Pythons are not venomous but they have nasty bacteria in their saliva so the wound needs to be looked after. Right now about 3 hours after in happened she is quietly sleeping at my feet and seems 100% and ready to go out on patrol again.

This is Kira's second (although worst) bite from a python and something tells me it will not be the last!