News: 2 die in rock python attack

[DestinyLynette]

Oh I love the idiots commenting about how keeping exotics is for ego and vanity and not in the best interest of the animal.
I hope you still have that opinion when you see people with hamsters or fish or go to the zoo,

[CrystalRose]

Yeah it's all over. I was just on BHBs facebook page. They posted a "guess what snake this is" picture and someone commented underneath it with:

I really don't care what kind of a snake it is.....a snake strangled two young boys in Canada last night. Should not be viewed as pets.

Probably only going to get worse.

[Joe parker]

They have already 'destroyed' it (there words not mine)
So they didn't even wait till atrophy to kill it

[hig]

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion...159/story.html
Get there like I did! Like my little "essay" at the bottom of the comment section too.

Good job, i would like it if i had facebook!

Everyone still needs to go to ottawa.ctvnews.ca/community/poll-results and vote.

Quick Poll, August 6, 2013
Should the City of Ottawa ban all exotic snakes?
YES 1103 (70 %)
NO 477 (30 %)

Total number of votes: 1580

[Bluebonnet Herp]

I honestly don't know why everyone on the internet is quick to blast away Fox News.
Greta had a segment tonight where she discussed the incident and in it, a man from the Columbus Zoo in Ohio was interviewed. Her first question, should giant pythons be kept as pets? He never said no and the media, for once, let him get away with it and explain it! He went on to compare the numbers, stating that thousands of these animals are kept as pets, and, our continued favorite fact, comparing 10 deaths in 20 years to over 200 with dogs and how rare a snake-related death was. Albeit, he still mentioned how powerful they are, and how aggressive hungry snakes are. But that isn't a lie, isn't it? Maybe that isn't dissuading a lot of people watching it, because snakes are reincarnations of Satan anyway, (sarcasm) but hey, he was hell of a lot more accurate than other media outlets! At least give Fox News credit for that one.

[BrandiR]

It seems that the most common theory is that the snake was used to cover the murder of these two boys or the snake killed these two boys. If those are the two options, I hope the snake did it.

Regardless of whether the snake "did it" or not, everything else stands. The snake isn't "responsible", shouldn't be killed, isn't an evil killing machine, etc. If the snake is in fact what killed the kids, the snake's keeper is responsible, not the snake. I'd rather know that these boys each briefly awoke to find they were being constricted by a snake than to know they briefly awoke to find they were being strangled by an adult human being they trusted. I'm a mother before I'm an animal lover. The biggest tragedy here isn't the potential impact on the reptile world. That's big, for sure, but it's not the worst thing here.

[Bluebonnet Herp]

It seems that the most common theory is that the snake was used to cover the murder of these two boys or the snake killed these two boys. If those are the two options, I hope the snake did it.

Regardless of whether the snake "did it" or not, everything else stands. The snake isn't "responsible", shouldn't be killed, isn't an evil killing machine, etc. If the snake is in fact what killed the kids, the snake's keeper is responsible, not the snake. I'd rather know that these boys each briefly awoke to find they were being constricted by a snake than to know they briefly awoke to find they were being strangled by an adult human being they trusted. I'm a mother before I'm an animal lover. The biggest tragedy here isn't the potential impact on the reptile world. That's big, for sure, but it's not the worst thing here.

Well, the fact is, this has become one tragedy, and is evolving into another. The loss of life in the two young children, whom had a good life ahead of them, is horrible. That's bad for the kids not having a future, and the family who lost two wonderful ecstatic children is heartbreaking. And my deep condolences to them.
However, a new tragedy is on the horizon, with a saddening situation like this being manipulated for revenue by the media is at the expense of reptile lovers and owners. These poor kids lost their lives, unfortunately, but now thanks to money greedy hands and radical naturalist, thousands will be losing their livelihoods.

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[BrandiR]

Well, the fact is, this has become one tragedy, and is evolving into another. The loss of life in the two young children, whom had a good life ahead of them, is horrible. That's bad for the kids not having a future, and the family who lost two wonderful ecstatic children is heartbreaking. And my deep condolences to them.


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I just wanted for this to be acknowledged and it didn't look like it was going to be, at least not to the degree it should have been. I wanted to know that people give a crap about those kids as much as their snakes. Nicely put. Thank you.

[SnowShredder]

So here is my question. .if they put an outright ban on exotics, what does that mean? Are those of us with snakes already grandfathered in for those snakes or do they just expect us to gather our babies up and deliver them to a location for a mass killing???

Look up pit bull BSL....I feel it would be the same thing. In certain places they gave 1 month to rehome your pit (elsewhere), and if you did not comply then they would come, take it, and euthanize it

[Mike41793]

It seems that the most common theory is that the snake was used to cover the murder of these two boys or the snake killed these two boys. If those are the two options, I hope the snake did it.

Regardless of whether the snake "did it" or not, everything else stands. The snake isn't "responsible", shouldn't be killed, isn't an evil killing machine, etc. If the snake is in fact what killed the kids, the snake's keeper is responsible, not the snake. I'd rather know that these boys each briefly awoke to find they were being constricted by a snake than to know they briefly awoke to find they were being strangled by an adult human being they trusted. I'm a mother before I'm an animal lover. The biggest tragedy here isn't the potential impact on the reptile world. That's big, for sure, but it's not the worst thing here.

Is it sad that two kids died? Yes.

Am i more saddened over the impact it'll have on my hobby? Yes.

Kids die all the time from all sorts of causes. Casey Anthony killed her kid without any snakes and she got away with it. I really think this guy did it and he sucks for dragging down our hobby with it.