Florida is starting to make California look...normal?
Dog and snake ping.
A 22 rifle with a CCI shotshell aimed right in the head would have killed the python and saved the dog. Works great on poisonous snakes at seven yards.
Just WOW. Too bad he did not have a handgun, or a good, sharp hunting knife, to slice the snake in two. It can be hard to cut with the hedge clippers, especially when opened wide. They never said if the snake was killed, or got away!
That boy can either live out the rest of his life waking up in a cold sweat and screams, or become a great python hunter. I hope it’s the latter.
Florida should have an extermination/eradication project to rid the state of pythons to the extent possible. Nothing positive can come of a growing population of such snakes.
He should have ran for the butcher knife. Practically every household has one.
Bichara is incorrect in his assumption that a 10 foot python was stalking a 60 pound dog for a meal. A dog that big would be very difficult for a snake that size to ingest.
Given that the necropsy done on the snake shows bite marks that match the dog, what most likely happened was the dog attacked the snake and paid the price for it.
A sad situation all the way around.
So sad.
No axe? No machete?
BTW, as an aside, I have to ask. How did we go from 6’ and 90# to 10’ and 60#?