Python eater 5.8kg maltese terrier-cross

Cut and paste from the heraldsun .com.au

Rebekah Cavanagh

March 16, 2009 10:55am
A PYTHON has devoured a Northern Territory woman's 5.8kg pet dog, including the collar and name tag.

Patty Buntine's three-year-old maltese terrier-cross Bindi disappeared from her Katherine home last Wednesday, the Northern Territory News reports

Ms Buntine said she was worried when Bindi failed to show up for her routine 7am breakfast.

"She was always there so I got worried and went to look for her," she said.

"I went around the side of the house and that's when I found the snake. It couldn't move and had its head up in a striking position."

"It's belly was bulging - it looked like a great big coconut was inside it.

"I knew straight away that it had ate Bindi.

Ms Buntine said Bindi was a lively dog and she was shocked the snake even got her.

Snake catcher David Reed, who removed the python, said the snake was still digesting the dog a week later.

Read the full report at the Northern Territory News.

Would be funny if it wasn't true. But I know it to be true but it is still hard to keep a straight face when reading about this.

Maybe the snake got sick of listening to to mutt barking all the time as that type of dog's barks even at it own shadow. And he though he would put an end to it.

I wounder if you boys have thought of the feeling the owner has to go though. Know that her little dog was eaten by this big snake. And I can see the funny side of it , but I see the side of the greiving owner first.