A 16-foot python terrorized a pet dog (a silky terrier-Chihuahua) for days before literally swallowing it whole in front of horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said, Wednesday.

16-Foot Python Eats Family Dog

Story, here (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/27/world/main3882321.shtml?source=search_story).

CBS News-cbsnews.com/February 27, 2008

If the snake was terrorizing the dog for DAYS, why did the family wait until the dog was killed before calling someone for help? IDIOTS!

Ugh I haaate snakes, now even more!:mad:

If the snake was terrorizing the dog for DAYS, why did the family wait until the dog was killed before calling someone for help? IDIOTS!
They probably were curious to see what would happen.......hope they are happy now, for traumatizing their own children, for life :mad:

I realize where they live, snakes may be a common occurence, even pythons but the mere fact they were forewarned abt a python and they figured out it was after their dog when they found the snake sleeping ON THE DOG'S BED, that should have been the moment to do something abt it.

DAMN...STUPID PEOPLE. :rolleyes:

Why on earth ANYONE would have a python that size with a dog is beyond me. Ddin't the parents realize the predatory qualities of this type of snake? As the late Ann Landers would say, they really have a geranium in the cranium. What idiots.

That poor dog :( Silly people.

Why on earth ANYONE would have a python that size with a dog is beyond me. Ddin't the parents realize the predatory qualities of this type of snake? As the late Ann Landers would say, they really have a geranium in the cranium. What idiots.
I think the python was roaming the property/area. The family didn't own it (if I read the story correctly.) I get the feeling the family lives somewhere out in the wilderness (not the suburbs).

I know I'm gonna get chewed out for this, but there's a dog about four yards behind me that is so freaking loud when he barks that I'd love to sike the python on :lol:

John, maybe you can sic a python on the owners. :lol: That'll teach 'em.

omg. how sad. poor dog. =(
they should've done something when they saw the snake in the dog's bed. even if it ran away.
uh...granted the locations are very different, but if that had happened to my dog, i would've done something before something happened to my dog.
and now the kids are going to very traumatized for a while.

Okay, gotta love this line; Removing the half-swallowed dog could have harmed or even killed the python, Rose said, because dogs have sharp teeth and claws that could do the snake internal damage if it were wrenched out.

And who the hell cares if the snake dies? I would have taken a shovel to the friggin thing.

I feel bad for those kids but the adults could have prevented this. Poor dog :(

Okay, gotta love this line; Removing the half-swallowed dog could have harmed or even killed the python, Rose said, because dogs have sharp teeth and claws that could do the snake internal damage if it were wrenched out.

And who the hell cares if the snake dies? I would have taken a shovel to the friggin thing.



seeeeriously! my thoughts exactly.

Okay, gotta love this line; Removing the half-swallowed dog could have harmed or even killed the python, Rose said, because dogs have sharp teeth and claws that could do the snake internal damage if it were wrenched out.

And who the hell cares if the snake dies? I would have taken a shovel to the friggin thing.

I feel bad for those kids but the adults could have prevented this. Poor dog :(
That is what I was thinking too.

Okay, gotta love this line; Removing the half-swallowed dog could have harmed or even killed the python, Rose said, because dogs have sharp teeth and claws that could do the snake internal damage if it were wrenched out.

And who the hell cares if the snake dies? I would have taken a shovel to the friggin thing.

I feel bad for those kids but the adults could have prevented this. Poor dog :(

Yea.. I would have done so out of instinct if it was my dog..

Yea.. I would have done so out of instinct if it was my dog..


I wouldn't have thought twice about slicing the python open to get my dog let along wrenching the dog back out. What if it had been a small child it had eaten - would they worry about the stupid snake so much then? (And you can give me flack for comparing a dog to a human but I could give a rat's ass - yes, I'm THAT much of an animal lover that they are one and the same to me).

Course, knowing a python was nearby for days, yes, I wouldn't have let the dog out unattended and only for quick bathroom breaks. Hell, we get coyotes, hawks and eagles and I stay with my two pomeranians when they're out. If I hear coyotes nearby, I stand over my dogs with a shovel ready to go if need be.

If anything, the family should be charged with endangering their own dog.