The Animals Concerns Research and Education Society (Acres) was called in for assistance afterwards.
If the dog was to have any chance of survival the woman needed to act immediately.
She needed to get a knife and stab the snake behind the head, severing the spine.
If the dog was not then released she needed to cut off the snakes lower jaw.
Waiting for the authorities to arrive guaranteed the dog’s death.
What the legal repercussions to these actions would be, I have no idea.
>> “She needed to get a knife and stab the snake behind the head, severing the spine.” <<
Yeah, that’s what I would have done. I imagine she was afraid, and if the python was 5 meters instead of 3, I might be too (I’m be nervous, anyway). Having partially swallowed the dog, it was vulnerable, though. One blow as you say with a knife might kill it. If a knife wasn’t quickly available, I might try a stick, gouging it in the eyes, and hitting its head or neck (if that could be done without hitting the dog’s head). What if that had been a young child? I wonder if she would have stood there then too.
Anyone know if a snake with its mouth fully open and swallowing can quickly release its prey to defend itself? Of course, even if its head is stuck on the prey, you’d have to watch out for it if it tried to switch its coils from the prey to you, but I think with a knife, it could be killed.
The dog was dead (sufffocated) when the python began to swallow it.
I've owned a python for 27 years. He strikes, coils, suffocates (kills), then swallows. No unswallowed mouse ever revives.
Women do not generally have it in them to charge huge snakes.
At hat point the dogs dead.
I know I would have run back into the house and grabbed my sharpest knife and something substantial to smash with. No way would I have waited for the “authorities”. By the time they came, dog was dead.
Marlin Perkins would have sent Jim to save the dog.