Quote Originally Posted by GradStudentLeper View Post
He was too small to take the Jack Russell

As for the snake... For hell's sake, if a person cannot keep their boids contained, they should not have them. Sort of like how that one family who lost a toddler to a python... I have no sympathy for them, as they were polluting the gene pool.
Oh, it gets even better, with that story out of Florida. The guy who owned the snake wasn't even the kid's father; he was just the bf who happened to be shacking up with the mama at the time. The snake had no cage-it was being kept inside a laundry bag inside a 20-gallon aquarium with no lid, just a plastic tarp "secured" with clothes pins. When Animal Control brought the snake in, this nearly nine-foot-long Burm weighed only five pounds. I've had adult Black Rat Snakes that weighed that much! When interviewed by the police, the older children told them that the guy was actually "out buying more weed" when the snake escaped, and that he had not fed the snake in months because "he spend all his money on weed". If anyone can call it like it happens and not hold back, it's a kid! I don't feel sorry for this guy in the least, but I do feel sorry for the toddler and the snake, both innocent victim's of stupidity and neglect here. The child wasn't even related to the guy who brought the snake into the home, and the poor animal, the one who has really been demonized the most, certainly had no choice in how it was treated. The man is a chronic drug abuser with a rap sheet a mile long and multiple convictions who should have never even been allowed near a child, but I'll agree totally that he and the "baby mama" are the lowest life forms in this whole tragedy, along with the politicians and the HSUS who are milking the "fear factor" of this incident to push their agendas through and stop ALL of us from being able to keep snakes. When will the public wake up and see that it's NOT the animals themselves but how they are kept that results in tragedies?

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