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Made with real pets. An Australian family is under siege in their home as one or more pythons have been gobbling up the family pets. First the cat became a canapé, then the family guinea pig was turned into an hors d'oeuvre. The final straw was when an 16-foot python went for the main course: hot dog. The family pooch was swallowed whole - as pythons normally do. The family is now terrified for their children, who are 5 and 7 years old.
Snakes alive! A giant python has eaten Scotty the pet dog. An Australian couple are living in fear for their children after a huge python slithered into their home and started devouring their silky terrier-cross chihuahua.
In the past few weeks, other pythons have entered their garden, near the northern Queensland city of Cairns, and swallowed the family cat and a guinea pig.
But the loss of Scotty has left Daniel Peric's family fearing for the safety of their children Ethan, five, and seven-year-old Talia.
"I'm not leaving them alone in any part of the house," said Mr Peric, whose home is surrounded by bushland.
It was Mr Peric who found the snake in the process of eating the dog in the garden.
"Actually watching it unfold before your eyes was pretty gut- wrenching. We'd had the dog for about five years, so it was part of the family.
"All I could see were the back legs and tail sticking out from the snake's mouth.
"I threw chairs and sticks at the python, but it was already too late - our dear dog was half way down its throat."
The snake was removed by a reptile expert - partially digested dog and all - and is now comfortably confined in a zoo finishing his meal, so to speak. Once the pet is digested, they plan on releasing the snake back into the wild. Hopefully far from the Peric home.
By NortonPete, Wednesday, 27 February , 2008 @ 11:47 am
I suggest high velocity lead as a deterrent.
By feeblemind, Wednesday, 27 February , 2008 @ 11:51 am
That is how I would have handled it Nortonpete. They are releasing the snake back into the wild? Are pythons native to Australia?
By chuck, Wednesday, 27 February , 2008 @ 11:53 am
I wonder what python tastes like?
By Mockinbird, Wednesday, 27 February , 2008 @ 12:14 pm
Yup. I’d ‘a shot him.
By martian, Wednesday, 27 February , 2008 @ 1:01 pm
Chuck - it tastes like chicken!
By Bleepless, Wednesday, 27 February , 2008 @ 1:58 pm
But by the time they release him, he will be unable to survive, having lost his own culture and been absorbed by the white, imperialist civilization. ESPN, tee shirts, diet Pepsi, Eric Clapton, low-slung pants, the swoosh, SUVs — feel devastated at this innocent child, a victim of pure evil. Sob!
By NortonPete, Wednesday, 27 February , 2008 @ 8:55 pm
There is an Australian Python . Morelia is a genus found in Australia and southern New Guinea.
These are not very agressive snakes, in fact , many pythons in captivity are Australian Morelia.
This snake is a problem and needs to be terminated ,period,…. you kill my dog……. well you know the rest.