OTTAWA SUN (Ontario) 20 November 06 Cops can't stop boa from crushing terrier
Singapore (Reuters): Police wielding a golf club failed to save Bella the terrier from the crushing grip of a 3.5-metre python, which killed the pooch in an upmarket Singapore apartment complex and then slithered away.
A resident had been walking two dogs on Wednesday evening when the slippery serpent struck, coiling itself around Bella, a seven-year-old Jack Russell, the Straits Times reported yesterday.
Police soon arrived but lacked appropriate tools to battle snakes. Using a golf club, they tried for 20 minutes to loosen the python's embrace before it abandoned Bella's body and gave them the slip.
"My head is filled with the image of the snake around my yelping dog and I can't sleep," the paper quoted Bella's owner, Glenda Liu, as saying.
Liu and her partner were so distraught they were moving out of the condo for good yesterday. They said they feared the snake could also attack children.