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So, I open foxnews.com, and the featured story is this...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,332913,00.html

They must really be working to give snakes a bad name.
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1.0 100% het albino ball python (Junah)
0.1 normal Ball python (Alana)
01 50% het albino Retail Boa (Hitomi)

Headline should've read "Morons lose family pet to natural selection".

I'm just glad it was their mutt and not one of their kids.

Any network that publishes stuff like that is a news network i would keep up on.
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-Jacob

Why do people say .02 cents??? So, what, your opinion is only worth a 50th of a cent?

That sucks but they should of kept the dog on a leash... They could of pulled it away.. lol.

No but seriously thats sad that the children had to watch their pet die, but the snake didnt know any better. The news media loves to use Horrifiying and all those drastic words....

MY DOG USED TO EAT GARTER SNAKES ALL THE TIME! WHY WASNT THAT ON THE NEWS? THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO.....HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

HA!! that would be a sight!!

"famiy dog brutally murders garter snake in front of children!"
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Ha! Yeah that would be good news... Media will try to make everything sound so blown out of perportion... Sorry if thats not spelled right..

np
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GOOSEBALLS

lamina1982@hotmail.com

What I don't get in the article is how the snake was in the dog's bed? Did the snake get into the house or was the dog kept outside all the time?

You would think if a snake was prowling around for three days 'stalking' the dog, they would just keep the dog inside keep it very close on a leash when taking it outside for it to do its duty...I mean, what did they do, let the dog loose and watch as a big snake stalked it...till it struck? Sheesh. About as wise as letting your dog loose in the front yard knowing it likes to go out on the street...instead of tying it so it can't get onto the street and thus get run over.
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PHLdyPayne

...the snake stalked the dog for three days??? call animal pickup on day 1. wtf?

You know how many dogs get eaten by gatord here in the us? I hear about gators eating family pets from time to time in orlando so im sure it happend all over fl. and georgia and so on. Not to mention the strays that wander too close to the water but have no one to report them missing. Dont worry about it too much everyone knows foxnews is a joke. When they come across a story that other channels have covered they just make it a little more dramatic and release it.
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B Sleeper

1.0 Chocolate Lab
0.1 ?? Normal Ball python (yet different)
1.0 04 Het Albino
1.1 06 Het Albino
1.0 06 Het Pied
1.0 06 Pastel
1.0 07 Pastel

The Australians appear to at least get the idea of how pets, animals, and real nature works. The family understood that the dog was being tracked, not by a demon, but as prey for a hungry predator - nothing more. I do not have a problem with letting my kids fully understand nature in all of its raw and unforgiving, terrible beauty.

If you want to speak of 'humanizing' pets, in this country where the frontier spirit that built an empty wildreness up into the greatest country the world has ever known, this spirit is all but neutered from us. This article would have portraid things as though a loving giving member of the family had been ripped away from them by a demon monster, the police would have shot the vicious beast then and there, and the remaining children in the family(other than the dog that has passed) would have required extensive councelling and would have blamed any future problems they have during adulthood on this tragedy. Politicians would then be screaming for additional spending to prevent this from happening again and laws would need to be drafted to better protect the children and the weakest among us.

Chihuahua/Silky cross eh?
The kids are better off without it.