Python eats cat

[BanditJeff]

Saw this story on our local news tonight......

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/8191355.stm

I say it serves the cat owners right for letting their cat wander in other peoples gardens.

[Banned]

A spokeswoman said: "The snake was scanned and we can confirm that a microchip was found inside. We can't know for certain that it was Wilbur, but it is very, very likely."

lmao

get in there monty !!!

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[Phoenix]

[BanditJeff]

[D O G]

Unlucky cat, but don't see the point in adding them to the Dangerous Animals legislation, they're not really a threat to humans.

[BanditJeff]

The snake was on the snake owners property, its not as if the snake was eating pets in someone elses garden.
The cat being eaten was totally the responsibility of the cats owners, if they hadn't let it roam free in the first place it wouldn't have happened.

[JAMSXR]

[BanditJeff]

If a cat owner allows its cat to wander free, then that owner cant complain when harm comes to that cat. Cats get run over, killed by dogs.... or in this case eaten by a snake.
If i let my dog roam free it would likely be shot by a farmer as i'm surrounded by farmland. This would be my fault for being irresponsible, you cant blame the farmer.
Similarly you cant blame the snake or the snake owner for this cats death, the responsibility lies totally with the cat owners for not looking after their pet.

[JAMSXR]

[Banned]

there not dull or macho,

ive had 2 cats ... no more again, 4 iguanas , 3 monitor lizards amd a python, there not as dull as ginny pigs and the like.

your sweeping statment about most reptile owners is bollux

steve

[JAMSXR]

[Banned]

yeah well your most should be few, and the chav ones you allure to dont keep the reptiles long as they usually die.

sounds like you come accoss to many dickheads present company excepted.

steve

[JAMSXR]

Well I have a one friend who keeps two snakes because he likes them, other then that I have come across 3 other people who keep them through work and friends of friends, they all fall into the chav category...

I also see/hear frequent stories on the news regarding people who have bought snakes and can't handle them, I remember one recently about a chap keeping 8 foot Python in a cupboard in his flat!! On monday their was another different story about a gang using a snake as a weapon..

https://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20090810002735461C992727
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[pa_broon74]

Should it not be judged in line with what's reasonable?

Cats roam around normally without any problems, (for the most part.) Ok, they might get ran over by a car, that comes under reasonable risk. But to be consumed by a four metre python in a suburban garden I don't think can be described as a reasonable every day risk. It is after all a pretty serious predator, (as opossed to a poorly driven nissan micra for example.)

I think the snake owner should probably make some form of reparation to the cat owners. No idea in what form, at the very least an apology should be forth-coming.

Definitely gives one paws for thought though... They should add a claws in to the existing law... I hope the owners are feline better now...

Ummm

Nope, that's all I've got.


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[AngelGrinder]

Ok, so lets say a child climbed into your garden, and your cat attacked it, or dog, and the child got inured, maybe lost an eye...

Shall we add them to the dangerous animals list?

What about a german shepherd, that could kill a human...how small does a dog have to be before it's 'dangerous'?

'Constrictor' snakes, covers pretty much all of them. Some can be found in this country, in the wild...and couldn't even constrict a finger to death.

Banning stuff, outlawing this and that is what is ruining this country, you are all bikers on here, you know this. Just because you don't have reptiles or snakes as pets, doesn't mean other people don't value them just as much as any cat or dog owner.

If I owned a reticulated python (I don't - they are the longest snake you can physically get btw) and I wanted to let it into my garden, knowing it couldn't escape, why should it be a problem if it did attack another animal or person, I'm sure a great many dogs would react the same way!

Basically, what I'm trying to say, is don't be so stupid moaning about 'banning' more stuff, open your eyes to other peoples interests!
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[JAMSXR]

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theres about the same percentage of chav reptile owners and chav bikers proberly.....]

and i never leave my smallish reptiles in the garden unsupervised... and nor should the owner of.......

also there is a degree of that even supervised the same reult could of happened although a good snake owner would of shoe D the cat away as it could really of damaged the snake as even rats and mice do if you live feed.

I used to be wary of snakes but my Princess is the most timed and interesting pet i own , until Molly came along ,, dogs rule !

Snakes and lizards can be such fun believe it or not and when you rear them from babys / juveniles they become albeit a stranger part of your family.

steve

[BanditJeff]

People reckon cats are intelligent, but they will enter a garden with a big fuck off snake in it

[AngelGrinder]

[Skudd]

Snake meet shovel, shovel meet snake, shovel dig hole to put dead snake in.
I hate snakes. There is just something wrong with snakes, they are just a wrong creature. Evolution should have stood on the little bastards.
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[Banned]

shovel meets skudd ,.. skudd meets shovel ...evolution never got rid of the git !!

[nick606]

Well thats one way of stopping a cat shitting in your garden.

[pa_broon74]

After reading AG's post I now have the mental imagery of a German Shepherd on tip toes sneaking across the back lawn quietly giggling evily into a cape in anticipation of pouncing on an unsuspecting visitor.

One assumes a large dog would bark thus hinting at its presence giving any would-be interloper second thoughts.

I don't think snakes should be banned, but if a person can't look after a one responsibly (as in this case) then maybe a verbal warning isn't enough. Perhaps being ordered to make a hefty donation to the RSPCA and an apology to the cat owners would suffice.


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[JAMSXR]

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