Throw-away Pets

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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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[_neutrino Veteran]

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

[Hum]

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

[episode]

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?

[Order_66]

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.

[Detection]

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

[Hum]

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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dup

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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.

[Vice]

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.

[Detection]

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.

[Lingwo]

I say find the owner and cave his skull in.

I'd quite gladly do it.

[Dot Matrix]

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".

[Detection]

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.

No, but dogs on the dangerous dogs list are on there for a reason, because it is in their nature to simply snap one day for no reason, even after living for 10 years with kids and never hurting any of them.

Any dog can fight or bite, but like any sane human they will only do so to protect themselves or loved ones.

The dangerous dogs breeds have crossed wires in their DNA and are like an old WWII timebomb, it might not ever go off, but because of their DNA it very easily could.

The tiny teeny dogs that bite everyone can be as easily trained as any other, I have one. When she was even tinier than she is now, she would snap and try to be dominant but a few weeks of stern training and shes as soft and loving as my border collie

Dogs are a reflection of their owners (Except for the ones that I mentioned which is not the dogs fault either)

[SirEvan]

What does this have to do with that?

you can't make the connection? People bought their kids owls to be like harry potter, and now they don't want them anymore...throwing them away. This article is about people throwing pets away.... pretty much the same thing?

[moloko]

What does this have to do with that?

Disposable pets is the title of this thread. So it the same. Just like people throwing away or letting loose baby chicks and bunnies after Easter.

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.

So what if it attacked the owner. He should of still called animal control. maybe the dog was adventurous and WANTED to do a battle royale with the snake and WON.

[Daedroth]

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

I went to a bird of prey centre last week, and in their owl section, there was a notice about this sort of thing.

It read something along the lines of:

"Since the Harry Potter craze many families have bought owls without understanding the amount of care needed to look after them. Some people who cannot cope with owls simply give them to bird of prey centres, which are quickly becoming too full, or let them go into the wild...not understanding that the birds have been hand reared, and without the upbringing from their parents, do not know how to hunt in the wild, and die shortly after release."