Posted on 09/19/2013 8:12:34 PM PDT by Theoria
A dog owner is sharing his heartbreaking story after a python came out of nowhere and killed his dog in the backyard.
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Angel Bichara's son is still too traumatized to speak on camera about how he tried but failed to save the family dog, Duke, from the grip of a rock python in the backyard of their West Miami-Dade home. "He heard the dog barking and then he heard the dog crying, so when he walked outside, he saw the snake had grabbed on to the dog's nose area and had wrapped up," said Bichara.
Bichara's son first tried to pull the 10-foot snake off the 4-year-old, 60-pound Husky's neck with his bare hands. "So he grabbed it by his neck, and he was not able to move it because the snake was so strong he couldn't do anything," said Bichara. "So he grabbed the shovel, he hit it, and it didn't do anything. It just got the snake even more mad. It pissed him off. The snake even lunged at him and everything, but it never let go of the dog."
He then tried to cut the snake off with garden clippers, but at that point it was too late.
The family then called 911:
Operator: "Dade County Police and Fire, what is the address of your emergency?"
Bichara: "Hi, we have like a 6-foot python in our backyard that just killed our 90-pound dog."
The Bichara's believe the rock python might have come from nearby bushes in search of a meal.
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That is pretty much what I thought the facility was being used for. I didn’t mean to say that all snakes should be dead I know they have a purpose. I was just saying that those snakes in the Everglades that don’t belong there should be dispatched post haste.
Get a male outdoor cat and feed him just enough to keep him around. Cats lower the rodent population and occasionally get a snake too.
I saw a documentary on the wild Egyptian desert cats that are the forerunners of domestic cats, and they ate more snakes than rodents, vipers especially.
They showed this Morris-lookalike desert cat taking out a pit viper, and Morris just hung back out of the snake’s striking range, occaisonally lashing out with a paw smacking the snake’s head. After twenty minutes Morris was exhausted and the snake’s head was ribbons of bloody disjointed flesh...bit of a nap and he was watching the sun set enjoying snake sashimi.
#1, No cat can handle rats like a good dog can.
#2, Why on earth would I want snakes killed?
Actually the weights were referring to the dog.
I can see the length of unknown snake being mistaken but you should know your own dog’s weight.
Ah... I saw the length at 6 feet then 10 feet and linked the weight with the snake. Still, that dog was too big to be a meal for that python.
I should have clarified: shoot at point blank range with the muzzle pressed up against the snake’s head in a direction away from bystanders and dog.
I never heard of pouring alcohol on a snake’s head to make them uncoil. Interesting.
I’m glad the dog got killed instead of a family member. I don’t know beans about large constrictors. Just wild rattlers and other desert critters.
(PS. Hi Bob! Whassssup??! )
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