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Dog eaten in its kennel by a python: Owner finds snake with leash still dangling from its mouth
the Daily Mail ^ | 14 March 2014

Posted on 03/17/2014 9:14:12 AM PDT by george76

An Australian woman discovered her pet dog had been eaten by a snake in the most gruesome possible way after finding a bloated python lying curled in its kennel with the end of the dog's chain still dangling from its mouth.

Amazingly, the wildlife-lover had only chained her Chihuahua-Maltese cross overnight to stop it disturbing native animals near her Caniaba home in northern NSW, but it meant there was no escaping the 2.5-metre python that slithered into the kennel.

When the woman went outside to let the dog off its chain the following morning, she discovered the bloated snake curled up inside the kennel. The end of the chain was protruding from its mouth.

Things got worse for the shocked pet owner when she realised the chain that had been keeping her dog in its kennel was now ensuring the giant snake couldn’t get away either.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: australia; australianwoman; dog; doggieping; python; snake; snakes
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To: Salamander

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


61 posted on 03/17/2014 4:13:30 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: BCR #226

I like you.

:)


62 posted on 03/17/2014 4:14:23 PM PDT by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: EinNYC

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.


63 posted on 03/17/2014 4:17:21 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; afraidfortherepublic; ...
WOOOF!

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64 posted on 03/17/2014 4:17:52 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: slouper

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.


65 posted on 03/17/2014 4:18:01 PM PDT by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: trapped_in_LA
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....

66 posted on 03/17/2014 4:36:42 PM PDT by verga (Poor spiritual health is often manifested with poor physical health.)
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To: Salamander

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.


67 posted on 03/17/2014 4:40:37 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Salamander
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.

68 posted on 03/17/2014 4:46:20 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: TheOldLady

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.


69 posted on 03/17/2014 4:48:13 PM PDT by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Billthedrill

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.


70 posted on 03/17/2014 4:51:47 PM PDT by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Salamander
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.

71 posted on 03/17/2014 4:52:51 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Salamander; TheOldLady

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.


72 posted on 03/17/2014 4:53:38 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Billthedrill

;D

You can be in my foxhole, Bill.

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


73 posted on 03/17/2014 4:54:16 PM PDT by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: trisham
Ah!

A man!

:)

My backyard Garters are feisty little cusses.

I love 'em.

74 posted on 03/17/2014 4:56:05 PM PDT by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Salamander
:)

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

75 posted on 03/17/2014 4:58:41 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham
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.

:)


76 posted on 03/17/2014 5:01:53 PM PDT by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Salamander
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.

77 posted on 03/17/2014 5:03:55 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: trisham

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.


78 posted on 03/17/2014 5:04:19 PM PDT by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Being a thoughtless, irresponsible moron?

:)


79 posted on 03/17/2014 5:05:24 PM PDT by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Salamander

Ouch!


80 posted on 03/17/2014 5:07:30 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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