More bad press!!!!!

http://www.local6.com/news/9182961/detail.html


Whats everyones take on this??

:confuzd: Two idiots working in tandem, it looks like to me. If you let your dog off the leash and out of your immediate control, you are at least partly responsible for what happens to it. What if it had been hit by a car? Would he have sued the driver? I don't think so. On the other hand, whoever allowed a snake that big to be loose as well deserves the smack they got in court.

I feel bad about the dog , but hay they left him off the leash and I'd bet the burm was on the owner's property.

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Originally Posted by JLC

:confuzd: Two idiots working in tandem, it looks like to me. If you let your dog off the leash and out of your immediate control, you are at least partly responsible for what happens to it. What if it had been hit by a car? Would he have sued the driver? I don't think so. On the other hand, whoever allowed a snake that big to be loose as well deserves the smack they got in court.

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She's completely right

the car thing is exactlly what i said!!!!! Ofcourse i was met with your wrong blah blah!! Everyone has to be a know it all!

Yea if the python was loose then the owner should have warned people, and if the python was with the owner then I can not imagine that he would have allowed the dog to get that close! Who knows!

Sucks that this is one more story for the general public to use against rep keepers!! :(

They're freaking out over a snake attacking...er...ambushing a dog, I want to see everyone on here make a post every time they hear about a dog attacking a PERSON. Those attacks make the headlines, snake attacks make the "wierd news" at the end.

I think it's a load of crap!!!--most places I have been have leash laws!


But it is also legal for me to shoot any animal on my property that i feel threatens me or my pets. Mostly because of the dogs that run loose, plus I have been attacked twice in my life by "loose" dogs.

I'm cheering for the python, but I feel bad for the owner of the python and the bad rep it gives to pet snakes.

I agree with the others, whose property was the snake on?

I agree. The guy should have never let his dog off the leesh. However, you'd have to be irresponsible to let an 11-foot burmese python out. No matter what sort of animal you own, you need to be responsible. It's both of their faults. My snakes are no where near that size, and I always double check to make sure thier tanks are locked up.

The question is...would the owner of the dog that was killed sue the other owner if the animal that killed the dog was another dog off it's lease instead of a snake that was outside?

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Originally Posted by Vomitore

No matter what sort of animal you own, you need to be responsible. It's both of their faults.

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thats straight to the point. the dog, however, should have been on the leash. I'm on the side of the snake owner because I'm allergic to dogs... plus, those small breeds look like rats anyways. they're kinda asking for it. they never said if the snake was injure due to the beating from the dog owner.