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OP - July 02, 2009, 09:34 PM

Pet python kills Florida toddler

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida toddler was strangled on Wednesday by a 12-foot (3.6-meter) albino Burmese python that escaped from a holding tank in the girl's home, authorities said.

The pet's owner, a boyfriend of the child's mother, found the python on top of the 2-year-old girl in the rural community of Oxford, about 50 miles northwest of Orlando.

The python apparently broke free in the night, entered the girl's bedroom and attacked her.

"This is very rare," Patricia Behnke of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission told reporters.

The owner stabbed the snake when he found it on the child but she was dead when emergency crews arrived, the Orlando Sentinel newspaper said. It said he was being questioned and could face child endangerment charges.

Wildlife officials are increasingly concerned about the proliferation of non-native pythons in Florida's wilderness areas.

State officials say there may be as many as 150,000 Burmese pythons, which are native to Southeast Asia, living in the wild in the Everglades, where they have no natural predator.

Wildlife experts say the population grew from snakes dumped in the fragile wetlands by pet owners who no longer wanted them and pose a significant threat to native species.

The pythons can grow to more than 16 feet, live for 30 years and eat wading birds and small animals. Experts say snake enthusiasts buy them when they are small but cannot handle them when they grow to full size.

Florida Senator Bill Nelson introduced a bill in the U.S. Congress in February to ban the importation and interstate trade of the reptiles.

Nasty way to go but you can't really blame the snake. You have to wonder about the mentality of the parents though if they didn't make damned sure the snake's enclosure was secure. A bloody great constrictor is not something to take lightly around kids.

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Reply #1 - July 02, 2009, 10:15 PM

This is insane!!!! I think both the boyfriend and the mother of the victim should be charged with reckless endanger!

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Reply #2 - July 03, 2009, 06:39 AM

Quote from: RIBS on July 02, 2009, 10:15 PM
This is insane!!!! I think both the boyfriend and the mother of the victim should be charged with reckless endanger!

I don't think they should. Could you imagine even a little how they must be feeling? What about parents who have dogs, the dog is perfectly fine for years, then one day turns around and mauls the baby to death? do we punish them too?

They made a mistake that they have paid the ultimate price with, I think that's punishment enough.

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Reply #3 - July 03, 2009, 06:52 AM

Umm, methinks the kid paid the ultimate price, not them.

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Reply #4 - July 03, 2009, 08:42 AM

Quote from: BerberElla on July 03, 2009, 06:39 AM
What about parents who have dogs, the dog is perfectly fine for years, then one day turns around and mauls the baby to death?

If the dog is of the vicious or aggressive type, for example Wild Dingoes, then the answer is yes!

Do you think it is it acceptable to have an African lion or a huge crocodile as a house pet? IMO, Pythons or Anacondas, lions, Hippos, Elephants, Tigers and all naturally aggressive animals should not be allowed near residential areas unless in a Zoo!

Dogs too sometimes can be aggressive but not all types. For example a Dingoes can be taken as pets but sometimes they are known to eat human babies. I remember hearing about incidents like these in Australia sometime ago.

I honestly believe that predators since they can be potentially dangerous to humans they should not be brought in the vicinity of your babies or children where the risk of them getting out of their cages or boxes and attacking is high!!!

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Reply #5 - July 03, 2009, 11:35 PM

I think the parents were irresponsible for keeping a python in the house with a toddler in the first place. However I'm not sure how punishing them now is gonna change anything. They lost a child and that is hard enough. At the very least though, I think their license to keep a dangerous animal should be taken away (that is, if they had one from the start).

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Reply #6 - July 16, 2009, 12:10 AM

Reminds me of the video of an Indian family letting their infant play with a snake ...

I cant link it atm as Im on my phone, but will do so if I remember to tomorrow.

In some forms of hindu belief, snakes are seen as good and holy, and snake worship and idolisation can be found in many rural areas of India.

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Reply #7 - July 16, 2009, 09:05 AM

We've seen that video but it's a different scenario because the snake isn't a python and has been de-fanged, so basically it is harmless to the kid.

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Reply #8 - July 16, 2009, 11:38 AM

Is there a list of which animals are allowed to be kept as pets at home and which ones are not?

I mean, I would not want my next door neighbor to have a full grown male elephant that misses his Mrs and who would accidentally turn one of us into a pancake!! Hell NO!!

Few months ago, a guy in our neighborhood kept two grown up lions in his farm which is only few kilometers away from where I live.... Every time we reach home and get out of the car, especially at night, we will feel the hairs on our back raising up if we hear something moving behind near by trees which usually turns out to be a cat or something smaller!!! Luckily, we found out that the police have ordered him to give them up to the zoo as soon as they knew about them much to the approval of all the residents of the area. They are now trying to find out from him, how he got hold of them in the first place. They must be illegally brought into the country. Nature have put the Great Sahara desert as a natural barrier between us and big cat predators so he decides to bring them over to us!! Phewwwww!

I am OK if he keeps the chiwawa though!

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Reply #9 - July 16, 2009, 06:51 PM

Chihuahuas are only good for lion toys.

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Reply #10 - July 16, 2009, 11:42 PM

Quote from: osmanthus on July 16, 2009, 09:05 AM
We've seen that video but it's a different scenario because the snake isn't a python and has been de-fanged, so basically it is harmless to the kid.

Im sure that the Python was also defanged, cant other snakes kept as pets or used recreationally also strangle infants?

There are many stories of Rotweilers attacking children, there was also one that raped a baby, and when the mother saw it she screamed so much that she terrified the animal into running off outside with the baby still attached to it =X.

The child suffered severe injuries and internal bleeding, but survived and made a recovery.

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Reply #11 - July 17, 2009, 12:56 AM

Facepalm. Point: cobras are not constrictors. They do not kill by suffocating their prey. Pythons do. Get it?

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Reply #12 - July 17, 2009, 07:48 PM

Yes I do now, Im not an expert on snakes .

But isnt the general reaction to this 'Snakes are just nasty and shouldnt be allowed near children?'.

I am sure that is what runs through most peoples minds when they first hear about something like this.

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Reply #13 - July 17, 2009, 09:18 PM

Well yes, that is just primate instinct. It applies to most species of primates as far as I know.

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Reply #14 - July 17, 2009, 09:33 PM

Seen the snake that ate an alligator whole in the news?

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