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 couldnt get away either.
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Woman who owned the poor little dog was NOT realistic or rational. And I hate snakes.
I like you.
:)
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.
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.
I know where there is one that already has a taste for dog....
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.
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.
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.
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.
It wasn't a snake, it was a spider, dang it.
And I only squealed a little.
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.
;D
You can be in my foxhole, Bill.
[I’m only letting in a very select few]
A man!
:)
My backyard Garters are feisty little cusses.
I love 'em.
We have a multitude of garter snakes here. It's a very good thing.
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.
:)
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.
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.
Being a thoughtless, irresponsible moron?
:)
Ouch!
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