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28-Feb-08, 09:22 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Cairns, Nth Qld | | |
Darren Cleland could not believe his eyes when he saw this monster python on the banks of the Barron River west of Cairns.
The former Cairns councillor was at his rural property at Bilwon last month when he heard a neighbour's dog barking and rushed down to the water's edge to find the snake devouring a full-size wallaby with a joey in its pouch.
He estimated the python was at least 5m long.
"We were more amazed than anything that a python could get its mouth around an animal of that size," he told The Cairns Post last night.
"We've seen a few snakes but never anything this big."
Mr Cleland said the experience was a good lesson for his children to be wary of all snakes.
"We figured if it could eat the wallaby, it could easily eat our five-year-old."
Mr Cleland sent the images to The Cairns Post after it yesterday revealed how a 5m python swallowed the Peric family's pet dog on Monday night.    |
29-Feb-08, 10:42 AM
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If the snake was stalking the dog, and they knew aout it, WHY DIDN'T THEY BRING IT INSIDE?? DUH! I think they could have EASILY prevented that from happening. As for the cavies, what do they expect living in an area like that and housing them outside? And the cat, that one really surprised me because cats have like reallt good hearing and vision, also they are really fast, so it must have been pretty dumb to get eaten by a snake lol. ANYWAY, it is nature and I guess they don't have many more options. I mean, they are getting rarer so i am really glad the owners didnt kill it because - thismay sound bad but - you can ALWAYS replace a dog, but the snakes would eventually die off. Thats just myopinion.
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29-Feb-08, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by cris  Well they arnt anywhere near as bad as cats, large dogs are basically a natural predator in Australia as they were released here a very long time ago and have become a natural type of predator. Small yappy dogs probably arnt covered by this though, i guess they would be like retarded foxes from an ecoligical point of view. | Dogs are NOT a natural predator in Australia. Because they dont kill as much as cats still does not excuse dogs for doing the same thing. It is the fault of humans, you cant stop animal instinct. I blame irresponsible owners.
If an average size feral dog and feral cat were in the same area what would kill more? if we were lucky the dog would eat the cat and choke on it and the native wildlife will live on.
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29-Feb-08, 02:38 PM
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ice pics lol
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01-Mar-08, 02:19 AM
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At the time the dog was in. But some how they realized the snake was after the dog, they even saw it in its bed which I figgure was on the verandah. How ever, they let the dog out to take a piss/crap not seing any signs of snakes, but the before they could react the snake grabbed the dog from the verandah - It was likely just under it I guess, waiting. It had obviously lernt the dogs "mooving pattern" and had a pretty good idea where the dog would come from. Lucky the kids didnt go out first.. the snake might have let go as it realized it wasnt the dog.. I dont know. My guess is the snake would be someware between 3-4 meters long. I have a snakeskinn 1.35m long and this one was easily twize the size of that.. maybe a bit more.
Here in sweden the story hit big, as in Oz. But here the "common" swede that has no knowlage of neither snakes and apparently not the story had the mad idea (even after reading the news) that the snake was theirs and are now calling snakekeepers general för insane stupid and idiots... which in turn gave me the shits and I went back at every single one that gave that type of comment, like a ton of bricks - which made me feel goooood 
That last snake above is huge :S
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