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    Have any of you seen this?!

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/7-meter-l...111050649.html

    Hopefully the link works!
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    I hadn't seen that yet. Ugggh, another one. That's too bad, that poor woman. What a horrible way to go.
    And obviously, stories like this don't help our hobby at all.
    So sad for the woman and her loved ones, my heart goes out to them.

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    RIP. This is a very sad story, as it always is when someone passes away. It's also sad that this will be seen by many as a reason snakes should not be kept.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valyrian View Post
    RIP. This is a very sad story, as it always is when someone passes away. It's also sad that this will be seen by many as a reason snakes should not be kept.

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    Well, I have to agree that snakes that huge aren't appropriate pets...any more than a tiger can safely replace a domestic shorthair in your house.

    I'm sad for all concerned, it's certainly not the snake's fault either....just nature's way.

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    I mean... as an Indonesian myself, these stories are pretty much daily on our story-hungry online news presses, but this is still pretty sad. Most of the time, these stories are really one-sided towards the victim, with no context at all for what the victim did right before the.incident. Still, a very sad story, but I'm sure she did *something* that made the retic mistake her for prey.

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    Loss of habitat makes these stories seem to come more frequent then before sad indeed for all involved the lady, and her loved ones but also the snakes and other animals that are driven to do things they wouldn't have to do if they had the room and the proper food sources in the wild where they belong , saw this on Google when I first pulled it up but thank you for sharing
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    Quote Originally Posted by C.Marie View Post
    Loss of habitat makes these stories seem to come more frequent then before sad indeed for all involved the lady, and her loved ones but also the snakes and other animals that are driven to do things they wouldn't have to do if they had the room and the proper food sources in the wild where they belong , saw this on Google when I first pulled it up but thank you for sharing
    I think "loss of habitat" has a huge influence, same thing for large cats (tigers etc) that attack people, there's so many more people encroaching areas that used
    to be all wild habitat. And yet, people always blame the animals for attacking.

    And these headlines truly don't help the average person to feel any better about our pet snakes...they think they're all the same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by C.Marie View Post
    Loss of habitat makes these stories seem to come more frequent then before sad indeed for all involved the lady, and her loved ones but also the snakes and other animals that are driven to do things they wouldn't have to do if they had the room and the proper food sources in the wild where they belong , saw this on Google when I first pulled it up but thank you for sharing
    Totally agree
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    From what I understand, you can find moderate sized retics in the middle of cities over there now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MasonC2K View Post
    From what I understand, you can find moderate sized retics in the middle of cities over there now.
    Depends on your definition of "find". The herp business is starting to blow up here, but I personally have only ever heard of a retic being seen in a city once from my friend, and even that was a designer morph retic so it wasn't wild.

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