Don't doctor your pet python A Virginia Beach woman apparently was strangled to death by her 13-foot pet python as she tried to administer medication to the snake, police said. The husband of the victim, 25-year-old Amanda Ruth Black, found her lying on the floor late Tuesday night in front of a large, empty snake cage in an upstairs bedroom of their home, police spokesman Adam Bernstein said. Animal-control officers found the snake, a reticulated python with tiger-stripe markings, in the room. The snake was "extremely agitated and required the force of two animal-control officers to restrain it," Bernstein said. A preliminary autopsy showed Black died of asphyxiation caused by the compression of her neck, and investigators believe the snake killed her by wrapping itself around her and squeezing, Bernstein said....