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Sad News
Speaks for itself. Very sad and unfortunate for all.
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19914383/detail.html
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Re: Sad News
Very sad indeed. Hope it doesn't become food for HR669
Zack
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Re: Sad News
Yep there is the proverbial straw I fear.
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001? ~ Mark Cuban "for the discerning collector"
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Its sad they threw the wild population deal in there, and how they're able to survive down there.
This is indeed a sad case. But this has nothing to do with the wild populations of Pythons. Which are indeed a case of irresponsible keepers but are there not populations due to damage to stores from hurricanes and what-not?
This is a case of negligence and stupidity.
My heart goes out to they're family.
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As a parent myself, my heart goes out to the family. My question is, based on the article, it was 10am and the parent was just waking up??? The 2 yr old girl was awake and able to move around the house with no supervision?
As a responsible snake owner, it really pisses me off that that snake was set up to fail by being in an enclosure that was NOT escape proof.
Its stuff like this that is going to ruin it for all of us.
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Unless one of you was there then there is NO actual knowledge of how the snake was kept, what it was kept in, the condition of the parents (sober or what) or if waking up at 10 was the norm.
Maybe he worked nights. Maybe he left the cage open. Maybe someone else left the cage open. Maybe it was a poorly built cage. Maybe the kid opened it.
Jumping to conclusions is very easy. Jumping to conclusions is also a good way to be wrong.
I'm sad the kid died, that's always tough.
Of course, for a twelve foot burm, which we have no confirmation of, to try to eat a 2 year old, well, that's a hungry snake which does go right down the road to improper care BUT, having kept a few burms, some are just hungry all the time at that size.
It sucks but facts are lacking. I'd sure like to know how the snake got out.
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Re: Sad News
How incredibly tragic
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The things that could be said about this are endless but, from a hobbyist view point, we see this right after the article in the PalmBeachPost (see recent "Burm tests in SC" thread from Dreese88. From the article:
"Gibbons said a human is "just another prey item" to a python — especially a small human. Pythons are constrictor snakes and have been known to eat people in their native areas of Southeast Asia, he added."
Such bad publicity/harm to our hobby! But, of course, the real loss is to the family and the toddler!!
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Re: Sad News
That is sad.. Poor family.
A good reminder to us to ensure all cages are secure though! And if you have kids, to be responsible and have locks on all cages!
~Una
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