Mighty Quinn: August 8 (Supermodel: Being Pregnant Better Than Chanel Bag)
Posted on 08/17/2009 10:20:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It took four animal control officers to handle the giant snake.
Until today someone's pet python was on the loose in riverside county. An 11 foot Burmese Python was found in rural Riverside County between Perris and Lake Elsinore off Highway 74.
It took four animal control officers to handle the giant snake.
“They have teeth that would break the skin,” said Kim McWhorter, Riverside County's program coordinator with Animal Services. She is an expert on the care of reptiles.
Animal Control Officer Christina Avila took the initial call that a Python was in Perris.
A Python in Perris? “When I saw it, [I said] wow what am I going to do? Where am I going to put this?” said Christina Avila, Animal Control Officer.
Considering it's natural instinct to wrap around objects and constrict them, Avila knew she would need help just lifting the 50 pound Python.
A second Animal Control officer, Dylan Gates, soon arrived to assist in wrangling the snake into their county truck.
“All it wanted to do was escape,” said Gates. Fortunately a fence confined the snake preventing it from leaving. Based on it's size, McWhorter believed the Python to be female and someone's pet that may have slithered away over the weekend. No one has yet stepped forward to claim the snake.
Darn. From the headline, I thought this was a new Paris Hilton video.
Future Purse for a model.
Your pet pythons?
“All it wanted to do was escape,” said Gates.
Don’t know why that brought 10cc to mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY6DHXvgLJ8
And some steaks, too!
I cannot stand people getting an animal that they cannot care for. I met someone who had a couple of constrictors that she actually slept with. Then they grew so big and she couldn’t find a source of rats and mice and she let them go.
OH she claims they just managed to slither away, and perhaps they did, knowing she didn’t keep them in a proper cage/aquarium, or what have you. But what the heck do these people do once they reach such a size?
I find it reprehensible that people do such things.
People that cannot comprehend the size of any species, the feed and care and proper confinement, SHOULD NOT OWN ANIMALS/ or reptiles!
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