Dog eaten in its kennel by a python: Owner finds snake with leash still dangling from its mouth

the Daily Mail ^ | 14 March 2014

[EinNYC]

Woman who owned the poor little dog was NOT realistic or rational. And I hate snakes.

[Salamander]

I like you.

:)

[right way right]

I think I would just cut the chain and let the snake go.
I would hope the snake could pass the chain.
Its too late for the dog, and snakes got to eat.

[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

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[Salamander]

The Burms you see caught on TV are not going to sanctuaries.

They’re going back to the God who made them.

The shows are [mostly] too polite to mention that.

Most countries outside the US have a more realistic and balanced view of nature.

Rarely are snakes killed.

People live with them 24/7 and are unrattled by their presence.

They understand and appreciate snakes’ role in nature.

[verga]

Hmmm, I’ve got a neighbor with a little barker, too bad there aren’t snakes that big around here as I’d get some sleep.

I know where there is one that already has a taste for dog....

[TheOldLady]

That’s just fear and ignorance. It’s pretty common for people to fear snakes and spiders.

My first reaction is certainly not, “kill it!”

And the demise of that darling dog was the fault of its owner, not the dang snake.

And I REALLY hope that they’re able to get the chain out and save the snake.

[Billthedrill]

I had to run out across the yard and snatch my Portuguese Podengo Medio from the talons of the Golden Eagle...

Yeah, bald eagles where I live. Also owls and bobcats and mountain lions and coyote. Every summer there's a flyer or two in the Post Office about a *lost* dog - last time it was a Teacup Pomeranian. Snack time.

[Salamander]

Ain’t no way I’d come on a forum full of “gutsy patriots” and admit that I’m terrified of ‘scary little critters’.

This place just blows my mind, sometimes.

So TEOTWAWKI comes, you’re hunkered silently in a foxhole, the enemy is nearby and the ‘strapping buck’ next to you shrieks like a girl because some spider or garter snake touches him.

Good God.
That’s just pitiful.

[Salamander]

I think some folks move to the country and leave their brains in the city.

Either they endanger their kids and pets with oblivious stupidity or they act like the animals that were there first should all be annihilated so they don’t have to be a’skeered at night.

[Billthedrill]

So TEOTWAWKI comes, you’re hunkered silently in a foxhole, the enemy is nearby and the ‘strapping buck’ next to you shrieks like a girl because some spider or garter snake touches him.

It wasn't a snake, it was a spider, dang it.

And I only squealed a little.

[trisham]

We had a “former” US Marine working in our yard doing some landscaping a few years ago, when a large garter snake lunged out of the bushes and bit him, drawing blood. He laughed and went on working. He was a great guy.

[Salamander]

;D

You can be in my foxhole, Bill.

[I’m only letting in a very select few]

[Salamander]

Ah!

A man!

:)

My backyard Garters are feisty little cusses.

I love 'em.

[trisham]

:)

We have a multitude of garter snakes here. It's a very good thing.

[Salamander]

One of my trio of bebby Boas bit me one night. [that nasty little Nancy!]

I raced into the living room to grab a camera before the blood dried so I could snap a shot of my grievous wound to show to my snake friends.

They pronounced it fatal and bid me their fondest farewells.

:)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The dog and the snake were both doing what came naturally.

The dog by harassing the local wildlife and the snake by eating the dog.

The scary part is that the woman may have been doing what came naturally as well.

[Salamander]

Indeed.

Until the craven neighbors murdered my black rat snakes, I had a lot of them, too.

The garters loiter around the Koi pond, thereby avoiding the resident Ophidiophobics.

[Salamander]

Being a thoughtless, irresponsible moron?

:)

[trisham]

Ouch!