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#1 Hum

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 14:29

ST. PETERSBURG — A boa constrictor is dead and a dog is homeless after someone left them in a trash bin, a local exotic wildlife rescuer said.

Vernon Yates, director of Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation, said he got the call from St. Petersburg police about 5:40 a.m. Sunday that someone had put a snake and a dog in a garbage bin at Flagler Pointe Apartments. When Yates got to the south St. Petersburg apartment complex, he found two animals and a lot of blood in the trash bin.

The snake was a 6-foot-long boa constrictor, Yates said, and its skull had been crushed. Yates took the snake to a veterinarian for treatment, but it died Sunday afternoon. The dog, a 10-pound mixed-breed terrier, was in good condition.

"On a good day, that snake could have eaten that dog, but not in this condition," said Yates, who is looking for a new owner for the dog.

One of his volunteers has already fallen in love with the dog, Yates said, and will probably keep it if no one else wants it. Yates is angry at whoever killed the snake.

"This is all uncalled for. If somebody didn't want the snake, they didn't have to beat it to death," Yates said. "They just could have called us."

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 14:39

reminds me of the article of the people that were "bored" of their owls after Harry Potter.

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 14:51

I guess the snake was dead ... or it woulda ate the dog. :(

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 14:58

View Postlittleneutrino, on 21 May 2012 - 14:39, said:

reminds me of the article of the people that were "bored" of their owls after Harry Potter.

What does this have to do with that?

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 14:59

We don't know the whole story about the snake, it could have attacked its owner for all anyone knows, for the price of a boa I don't see someone buying one then bashing its head in for no reason but then again there may have been alcohol or crack or whatever involved too.

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 15:02

View PostOrder_66, on 21 May 2012 - 14:59, said:

We don't know the whole story about the snake, it could have attacked its owner for all anyone knows, for the price of a boa I don't see someone buying one then bashing its head in for no reason but then again there may have been alcohol or crack or whatever involved too.

I'd say its unlikely that the owner was within their rights to do that to the snake considering they also put a dog in there.

They could have been stolen though

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 15:10

View PostOrder_66, on 21 May 2012 - 14:59, said:

We don't know the whole story about the snake... then again there may have been alcohol or crack or whatever involved too.

The snake may have been smuggling crack ...

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 15:14

dup

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 15:15

View PostHum, on 21 May 2012 - 15:10, said:

The snake may have been smuggling crack ...

Maybe the dog was smuggling crack in the snake but the condom burst and the snake went crazy, threatening to eat everyone so the dog had no choice but to cave its skull in, and was hiding in the bin from the Police helicopter's thermal imaging camera.

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 15:15

It's weird how animal cruelty makes me more angry than anything. They are so innocent and dogs especially just want to be petted and walked and loved. I feel really sad thinking about someone beating that snake to death and then putting it in the trash with that dog. Horrible.

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 15:18

They thought maybe the snake was dead, but left some food (the dog) in there just incase.

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 15:22

View PostVice, on 21 May 2012 - 15:15, said:

It's weird how animal cruelty makes me more angry than anything. They are so innocent and dogs especially just want to be petted and walked and loved. I feel really sad thinking about someone beating that snake to death and then putting it in the trash with that dog. Horrible.

Not weird, I'm the same, I would do jail for someone if I caught them killing / harming my dogs, or any animal. They don't have the capacity to hate, excluding the dangerous dogs list, which I am sure is only here due to humans breeding them like that for fighting in the first place.

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 15:23

I say find the owner and cave his skull in.
I'd quite gladly do it.

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 15:24

View PostDetection, on 21 May 2012 - 15:22, said:

Not weird, I'm the same, I would do jail for someone if I caught them killing / harming my dogs, or any animal. They don't have the capacity to hate, excluding the dangerous dogs list, which I am sure is only here due to humans breeding them like that for fighting in the first place.

lol so only the dogs on the "dangerous dog list" are capable of hating? Would this include pitbulls?
Doesnt make sense, but whatever

i can tell you that EVERY pit i've known was a sweet loving dog, but almost every tiny weeny type dog was a evil lil **** that always bit everyone.

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 15:27

View Postlittleneutrino, on 21 May 2012 - 14:39, said:

reminds me of the article of the people that were "bored" of their owls after Harry Potter.

Or all the poor clown fish that suffered the same fate after "Finding Nemo".