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HALIFAX HERALD (Nova Scotia) 09 August 03 Metro python no joke to cat owner and pets - Reptile slithers into backyard (Patricia Brooks)
Jennifer Surrette was washing her dishes Thursday night when her two terrified cats scampered in through her open window.
"They just flew in the house and were freaking out and spazzing out and jumping at the slightest noise," the Halifax woman said.
Thinking kids outside her Yukon Street flat were throwing things at the cats, Ernie and Peanut, Ms. Surrette went outside to confront them.
"I took a flashlight out and found this four-foot-long (snake) just underneath my window, sort of climbing up the side of my house," she said of the reptile that turned out to be a python.
"I'm not afraid of snakes but this is scary.
"It sort of slithered away and went on its business," the animal-rights activist said later. "It wasn't really interested in us but it stayed around the house."
At about 10:45 p.m., she called 911, then the Natural Resources Department and then animal control came at about midnight.
"She (the animal control officer) was expecting a garter snake and she was very taken aback when she realized what it really was," Ms. Surrette said.
The officer gabbed the python's head and Ms. Surrette helped her uncoil the snake from a metal cot in the backyard and put it in a bag. The snake was taken to a reptile rescue centre in Dartmouth.
Ms. Surrette was told by neighbours that it was the second time in a week an exotic snake was found slithering about in the neighbourhood.
The SPCA in Burnside has the animal-control contract for Halifax Regional Municipality, but spokeswoman Judith Gass said only city officials were able to comment on animal-control issues.
According to the municipality's Web site, the bylaw for the former city of Halifax says anyone owning a snake or reptile found at large can face a fine of up to $500 or 10 days in jail.
But Ms. Surrette is skeptical the owner of this snake will ever be found.
She e-mailed the municipality and her councillor pictures of the snake taken in her backyard, hoping the city will take her concerns seriously and consider a ban on owning such snakes.
"He could've easily killed my cats," Ms. Surrette said, adding later: "I don't have a problem rescuing cats. I have a big problem rescuing large, dangerous reptiles."

Metro python no joke to cat owner and pets

And yet cats kill wildlife by the thousands in our city each year....

How many birds and rabbits have her cats killed...

Hypocrit....

Tegan
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Tegan

I have seen a picture of a snake killed by a mouse, those cat's outnumbered that snake and I have no doubt it would hav been a close fight, but the cats had a good chance of killing that snake!
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"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." - Kurt Cobain

"You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh at you because you are all the same."

~~ Krystal - Future breeder of Pythons, Geckos, we'll see what else later! ~~ www.geocities.com/krystal19_85 ~~

I hate when people let their cats roam around. I live in the country, and we see at least one squished roadkill-cat a week, usually more.
She was asking for trouble, the lady in the article, letting her damn cats out in the first place!
And whoever owned the snake is a moron, too. It was obviously not kept in the right, escape-proof cage. GEEZ I hate when people do not know how to keep their animals!!!!!
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*~Ginevive~*

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BAN CATS!!!!!!! LOL J/K but they are filthy lil animals! I would MUCH rather have 6,000 more snakes than 1 more cat! I love my cat, don't get me wrong, but she is only the 2nd cat I have liked since I was 5! I love every snake I see!
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"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." - Kurt Cobain

"You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh at you because you are all the same."

~~ Krystal - Future breeder of Pythons, Geckos, we'll see what else later! ~~ www.geocities.com/krystal19_85 ~~

Oh no! The 3ft long ball is going to eat my poor 15lb, sharp clawed cats whole! Then it's coming for me! The TERROR! haha idiot woman.
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