23-foot-long snake eats 11 dogs
Sun Jan 28, 2007 5:13 am
Short article, but I thought it was kind of interesting:
Link - there's also a picture there.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 (Reuters Life!) - Guard dogs protecting a fruit orchard in Malaysia have met their match -- a 7.1-metre-long (23-ft-long) python that swallowed at least 11 hounds before it was finally discovered by villagers.
"I was shocked to see such a huge python," orchard-keeper Ali Yusof told the New Straits Times in an article published beneath a picture of the captured snake, which was almost long enough to span the width of a tennis court and as thick as a tree trunk.
Villagers did not harm the snake, which was tied to a tree then handed to wildlife officials, the paper said on Friday.
Link - there's also a picture there.
Sun Jan 28, 2007 5:30 am
Oh man, stories like this are why I love the "oddly enough" section. You just can't beat this quality of journalism.
Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:51 am
One would think that while the first dog was being eaten the other 10 would have run away.
Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:21 am
Perhaps the snake offered them doggy biscuits and a trip home in its tinted-windowed car ?
Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:00 am
That's scary and sad. Poor doggies.
Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:28 am
Just a friendly reminder to always get your pets spayed and neutered.
Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:07 am
ahoteinrun wrote:Just a friendly reminder to always get your pets spayed and neutered.
Why? I don't follow.
Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:16 am
the_dog_god wrote:Perhaps the snake offered them doggy biscuits and a trip home in its tinted-windowed car ?
*lol* the_dog_god, at times you can make me laugh so hard the coffee comes right on out of my nose.
Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:34 pm
Ginger Harp Seal Pup wrote:ahoteinrun wrote:Just a friendly reminder to always get your pets spayed and neutered.
Why? I don't follow.
"If you have kidsss, I'll eat thhhhemmmm."
Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:33 pm
Oh my god.. This story is.. shocking. You know, I had a fascinaiton with snakes when I was young, so I know how.. awful things can happen seeing what they can do and eat.. but 11 dogs.. that were all in the same place.. Thats pretty... big >__>; Anyways, thats the circle of life. Now who's gonna eat teh snake? 
lol
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:37 pm
That's one huge snake. I'm sorta surprised that it managed to eat 11 dogs though. You'd think they'd, well, run, after the snake chomped on one or two...
Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:21 pm
Ohh poor puppies! You do have to admit, they had to have been a little thick if they were watching their other dog friends get eaten. And kudos to that snake for being able to do that. 
Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:45 pm
Twinkle wrote:Ginger Harp Seal Pup wrote:ahoteinrun wrote:Just a friendly reminder to always get your pets spayed and neutered.
Why? I don't follow.
"If you have kidsss, I'll eat thhhhemmmm."
And, of course, help control the pet population.
Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:45 pm
I doubt the dogs were all lined up watching each other get eaten...they were probably swallowed at various places nearby, with the snake swallowing one and then finding another one. Unless they were tied up together, in which case this now becomes the story of a snake at a buffet and I stop thinking about it.
Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:10 am
Moongewl wrote:I doubt the dogs were all lined up watching each other get eaten...they were probably swallowed at various places nearby, with the snake swallowing one and then finding another one. Unless they were tied up together, in which case this now becomes the story of a snake at a buffet and I stop thinking about it.
Haha...
Snakes of a Plane 2: Snakes in a Buffet