[Closed] Python eats pet cat

That'll stop the cat crapping in his garden pmsl. I like how they mention the micro-chip - as though it was going to protect it. Nah, just for ID purposes when it was dead. Very funny but I guess not for the cats owners. But yet again we see the over-reaction to the situation asking for a change in the laws. It wasn't the snakes fault, it was the snakes owners who should take the blame and not the many many thousands of responsible reptile owners in the UK. I am a snake owner and I wouldn't leave my snake unattended in the garden whatsoever. Yes I do put my python outside to bask in the sun at times but I'm always there with it and my neighbours cat never comes anywhere near the garden. Never mind.

Might get myself a python that'll stop the horrible moggies leaving parcels in the flowerbeds.

double post

Its not the snakes fault but stupid owners 😯

Thats why the law should be changed as there alot of dodgy owners compared to good owners. 8)

Apparently the neighbours son realeased their turantla in the garden and it hasn't been found...

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Tough.

I hate cats.

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Its a pity the cat owners didn't attack the snake when they heard the cat being eaten. It would have been a score draw if it had been my cat and my garden and I'd heard it happening.
How stupid must you be to let your snake escape out of your garden.

Imagine the screaming...

Poor cat.

Then again it's a bloody snake its what they do!

[i]The Wadeys are campaigning for any potential owner to require a licence because, Mr Wadey added, many owners underestimate the snake's "wild instincts". [/i]

Pure hypocrisy, bet his cat has eaten plenty of wild animals without him giving a second thought.

agree zaskar , i got 3 cats, still would have tryed to help said cat tho.

Gotta love cats... I really admire their indifference and compassion toward other creatures...

So much like humans, no particular regard for other species apart from the need for sport and food...

What's not to love?

What a treat for the python.

Private garden, the cat had no right to be there anyway. Dogs are not allowed to wander around a pooh wherever they want, what is so different about cats?

I hate cats, I have to shovel their crap out of my garden and driveway every single day before I let my kids out to play. Not a huge fan of snakes but I like this one.

Hmmm
Like when our old Jack Russel killed a neighbors Parrot. Though they used to entice our dog with biscuits even though I was constantly telling them not to. The result was that it sat near their fence begging all the time.
**** knows how but one day it got in their garden, then managed to get in their house whilst it was locked and while they were at work and got to their Parrot.
I'll never know but I think they let it in and probably tried to get the two to be friends, as they are a stupid lovey dovey own every pet under the sun whilst they go without type.
Any way I bet the kids don't go into his garden when a ball goes over the fence.

When its hungry again, send it round our house, my wifes dog from hell will make a lovely meal for it, I'll provide the gravy.. 😈

The headline should be. SNAKE HAS A BIT OF PUSSY. 😉

Obviously if I had a cat I'd not care if it shat in other peoples' gardens as that seems to be part of the mentality of cat ownership, but if I lived next to a python I'd probably make sure it didn't wonder too far.

BTW, is it not a bit mean to keep a creature that never comes into contact with one of it's own kind? Does it not need a bit of like minded company - or just something to shag? Or do owners of snakes take them to meet up somewhere for a bit of company?

It's one way to stop the cats from shiting in the garden 😀

How stupid must you be to let your [s]snake[/s] cat escape out of your garden.

There, fixed it for you...

There won't have been much screaming by the cat, it's impossible to make a noise if air can't get into the constricted lungs.

[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/aug/09/snake-gang-attack-teenager ]snake attacks person[/url]

ok....

you have to wonder about some people.

Lol mudshark - snakes are't social animals and they generally live alone and as owners we don't take them to meet up with others. Constrictor snakes will lie in ambush for days on end which is why they don't need large enclosures but letting them out every now and then is good for them. But to leave one alone in a garden is stupid and not normal at all. The alleged son letting the spider out shows these people have no idea how to look after animals like that. It would do the spider no good whatsoever. Males do wander, purely to find females where as females will find a hole and wait for prey etc. They also don't benefit from sunlight, much prefering dark enviroments. But as usual, just like some dog owners, they don't research what they are buying and don't give them the proper care and attention they need.

Snakes all over the news at the moment. [url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/aug/09/snake-gang-attack-teenager ]Gang attack teenager with snake[/url]

Geoffj said, "How stupid must you be to let your snake escape out of your garden."

It didn't, the cat was in their garden, not the other way round.

Ah, but the cat (being a cat) had a divine right to be in the neighbour's garden, and to be safe there too! 🙄

I want to start a petition to make sure that the cat owners get a warning aswell, for not keeping their cat under control.

Bloody brilliant - where can I get an economy pack of pythons. 😆

When the python reaches that size it will attack anything it can. Everything is a meal.

In some countries python is a delicacy. Meat is sweet and tender. Chop it into sections and boil them (gut it first) peel off the meat because it can be very bony. The meat is very white.

oh ... one day the python might eat some toddlers too ...

Agree with sandwich. If a constrictor got it and wrapped around it, it wouldn't have made much noise at all. But pythons do have big teeth, it could have hooked the cat and the screaming was before the cat got crushed.

Ho hum. I'd find it hard to be cross about it myself. We've got two cats and while I think the chances of them getting nabbed by a snake is pretty remote, the liklihood of them getting hit by a car or killed by a dog as they wander around like they own the place is fairly high.

We've only got a little dog but if she caught a cat in our garden she'd almost certainly give it some life threatening injuries. I don't see the difference myself. The cat should think itself lucky if she does, when the dog's not out, Stumpy is, and stumpy doesn't do killing, he does shagging.

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And if their cat had been killed by the neighbours dog, would they be looking to ban dog ownership? I very much doubt it.

Love it when a cat dies early, thats loads of other creatures saved. Ever seen a Lurcher take a cat out? Like a missile, amazing. Cruel I know but it impressed me no end, especially as the cat was hunting something else.

nature red in tooth and claw

Agree the hypocrisy of the cat owners is staggering. Animals kill other animals cats are certainly NO exception to this and probably the most prolific [domestic] killers about and probably/possibly responsible for the demise in bird populations. Perhaps the RSPCA should send all it's members one?

The screaming wouldn't have lasted long. My lad used to own a small snake (possibly a corn snake, anyway it was a constrictor) which we fed an injured mouse that the cat had brought in. The kill was amazing: a lunge, a scarf-like wraparound with about 5 secs eek noises from the mouse, then the snake started to eat it. Very impressive.

On a more positive note we rescued a 4" baby slow-worm from the mog yesterday. As we live in inner-city Bristol I was chuffed to find it, as it shows that there are at least two adults around as well.

:0)

Shame it weasn't one of the flaming moggies from our cul de sac 😆 I am off to get me some snakes tomorrow 😀

I love it when people say "cats always shit in the middle of my garden"..doesn't happen. Cats will always try and cover up their doings, it's a well known fact.

Must have been some macho hard man, or new age hippy who owned the snake anyway, it's cruel to keep such a creature in captivity, which is essentially is. (being in a glass tank most of the time)

Hope no ones pets come into my garden, I've got a 13ft Alligator.

😛

Don't ever complain it bit your leg off.

This is the sort of thing that happens where I am in N Qld Oz just now:

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but things could be worse [url= http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/05/29/4198_local-news.html ]and you get snaked[/url]

or your dog could go missing:
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but then your pet spider takes revenge:
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and eats the snake, so long as it isn't too big:
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I love it when people say "cats always shit in the middle of my garden"..doesn't happen. Cats will always try and cover up their doings, it's a well known fact.

Sorry chap you are soooooooooooo very wrong. It does happen. They crap on our patio. I've actually caught one doing it too. And when they do bury it, it kills plants and you get it on you hands when weeding. Not nice.

I hate it when cat owners think their animals are beyond reproach.

I find cat and dog haters facinating, I wonder if their mommies didnt hug them enough or something and so they have to wish pain on other animals?

zaskar - Member

Apparently the neighbours son realeased their turantla in the garden and it hasn't been found...

Nothing to worry about, someone's cat has probably eaten it. 😀

zaskar - Member

Apparently the neighbours son realeased their turantla in the garden and it hasn't been found...

Nothing to worry about, someone's cat has probably eaten it.

ITMTS someone's snake has probably eaten it 🙂

Cat's only try and hide their shit if they're not the dominant cat around, otherwise they'll leave it where they like - little bastards

what about the dogs that crap into plastic bags and then leave it dangling from a tree? Dirty ****ers.

Bloody brilliant - where can I get an economy pack of pythons.

My old dog (Westie-Jack Russel cross) killed a cat once. Grabbed it by the back of the neck & shook it, literally just a couple of times before I could stop him. I felt bloody awful about it. The dog was so placid & soft, (my nieces used to put him in the pram etc). Was a real shock to see him react like that. I tried to trace the cats owners for weeks but got nowhere (No collar or datatag).
People forget that any pet is essentially a wild animal, the instincts never really go away.
The snake is in no way to blame.

love it when people say "cats always shit in the middle of my garden"..doesn't happen. Cats will always try and cover up their doings, it's a well known fact.

Perhaps you could tell the ones round my way that? One even tried doing it in the middle of the lawn whilst I was trimming my hedge. It was very nearly the first Manx cat in North Wales. Next time I catch it, the least it'll have to worry about is its tail going missing 👿

Must have been some macho hard man, or new age hippy who owned the snake anyway, it's cruel to keep such a creature in captivity, which is essentially is. (being in a glass tank most of the time)

With the exception of hunting, or trying to find a mate (if it's male), all snakes do is sit around and perhaps bask anyway. Compared to keeping a pack animal on its own (e.g. a dog), that's much less cruel. Anyway, how cruel is it to have sweet little moggy terrorising the local [u]wild[/u] bird population?

Kick it in the head then zokes, I'm sure that way you'll alter it's mindset so it thinks "oh, better not poo here, that nasty man will kick me"..

Seeing as some users on this thread are scared of having a cat come into their garden, try doing something about it, put in a motion activated sprinkler, so that way whenever the cat comes into your garden, it'll get a a soaking and run off, failing that plant some Plectranthus caninus, which is a minty weed that cats don't like, that in turn will keep a cat at bay.

Cats are also domesticated, so the idea that they terrorise the local bird population is one we'll just have to get used to, cats eat birds, birds eat worms, and so on.

and worms grow up into pythons that eat cats. Great, isn't it?

Cats are also domesticated, so the idea that they terrorise the local bird population is one we'll just have to get used to

I assume you've informed the birds then, in your new world order where it's possible to do what the **** you like because you own a cat?

cats eat birds, birds eat worms, and so on.

Spot the flaw in that natural food chain 🙄

try doing something about it

Why should [i]I[/i] have to do anything about it? It's not my cat, so I'm not going to spend any money on it (with the exception of possibly buying a python). Perhaps I should come and crap in your garden, and see how long it takes for you to get tired of it, eh? That would be me being proactive and 'doing something about it'.

20 years ago it was socially acceptable for dogs to crap everywhere, yet now it's not. Why are cats different?

You can - and should - stop your cat killing birds (the clever ones at least), by fitting it with a bell. I'm not sure what you can do to stop snakes killing, well, anything smaller than them that they can get hold of. As one person put it, they are a very large predator with a very small brain.

If you are wishing to have a discussion about food chains, I could continue, but I'm off out riding in a tick so I'll not bother, me saying that was merely an obvious fact that you already know.

OK kick the cat, remove it's tail, do as you wish. After that's over and next doors kid kicks his football over continually, what you going to do to him?

Cats can only be litter tray trained.

[i]20 years ago it was socially acceptable for dogs to crap everywhere, yet now it's not. Why are cats different?[/i]

Whereas now it appears to be socially acceptable to stick in a bag and dangle it from a tree.
Progress indeed 🙂

After that's over and next doors kid kicks his football over continually, what you going to do to him?

Keep it. I need a football, and it would save me buying one 😀

Cats can only be litter tray trained.

Piffle, cats can be trained in the same way that dogs can. Granted it may take a little longer but it can be done. With care the animal can be trained to stay off worktops etc.

It was very nearly the first Manx cat in North Wales. Next time I catch it, the least it'll have to worry about is its tail going missing

you really do come across as a pathetic little man, you know that right?

you really do come across as a pathetic little man, you know that right?

No more pathetic than a cretinous cat owner who thinks little moggy is clean, tidy, and would never do anything any harm.

You also have mistaken me for someone who gives a crap (pun possibly intended)

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after posting on wrong topic!

I'l never forget the loud crack it made when the stone I threw hit him on the head.

Thereby demonstrating that you too are just such a bully picking on something smaller than yourself

EDIT: Nice edit, Doctor...

I was only 9 at the time though

Is there another topic about cat-bashing at the moment? Must be a big issue in that case...

No more pathetic than a cretinous cat owner who thinks little moggy is clean, tidy, and would never do anything any harm

No actually a lot, lot more pathetic and whilst you dont care, you better hope you dont harm a defenceless animal infront of the wrong person.

Yeah meant to post on this one

[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/blimming-moggies#post-591723 ]Other cat forum link[/url]

Defenceless eh?

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Guess the cat had better hope it's never caught doing that to a defenceless bird in front of the wrong person.

(Are you not seeing the parallels yet?)

Yeah meant to post on this one

Clearly a very big issue in that case....

Clearly a very big issue in that case....

Yeah people like to pick on small animals that cannot realistically fight back, it makes them feel big!

Zokes, I'm just wondering why you should be so incensed about the fact that cats catch the odd bird?

Had you raised that bluetit from an egg, paid for its vaccinations and food, and watched it curl up at your feet and go to sleep every night?

Or are you just a really crap, obvious troll? 😉

Well a cat killing a bird and you kicking a cat are unrelated and I would hope you are more able of rational thought, but apparently not.

I'm just wondering why you should be so incensed about the fact that cats catch the odd bird?

I'm not incensed in the slightest, just bemused that some people seem to lead very blinkered lives about just what cats do, and therefore where lines of acceptable behaviour for cats can be drawn if looked at pragmatically.

Cat kills bird = it's just its instincts, no need to worry, plenty of birds

Python kills cat = it's just its instincts, no need to worry, plenty of cats

Those two scenarios are almost identical, but for the fact that the second encounter has less effect on the [u]natural[/u] wildlife of this country than the first. Neither cats nor pythons are native, wild creatures in this country, but the birds moggy tortures and kills for fun are. At least the python was probably hungry...

As for your bluetit analogy - I'm not daft or irresponsible enough to raise a cat. I guess the bluetit's mother feels differently about her chick...

I think, and correct me if im wrong, its called playing devils advocate 😉

(this activity seems a popular one on this here forum)

I guess the blue ****'s mother feels differently about her chick...

So according to you, you can only care about things that come out of your own body?

"cats catch the odd bird" or other small creatures.
How many is odd?
How many cats out there hunting?
How many animals do they kill a week?
How many is that a year?

If there is one 1 million cats in the UK and they kill one creature a week, thats a bit more than "cats catch the odd bird". There is many more cats than 1 million I suspect.

mt - Member

There is 1 million cats in the UK. And they kills 1 million birds a week. Cats bad. Me no like cats.

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Sorry can't make the link work. Just found this:

The RSPB estimates the free roaming cats kill five million birds and 220 million other animals every year in Britain.
Research shows cats will roam up to a kilometre from their home says Rob Cameron of English Nature. They can do enormous damage to wildlife.
There are about 10 million pet cats. Double the number of 20 years ago

whats cats killing birds got to do with zokes trying to be a tough guy when one shits in his garden, what the rspb say about cat shit?

Don't know on the rspb cat sh1t but imagine it will not be plesant.

cats kill five million birds .......... every year in Britain.

There are about 10 million pet cats.

I'm crap at maths, what's that ....... each cat on average, kills one bird every two years ?

Considering most birds killed by cats are song birds, and the average amount of off-springs which a pair of song birds produces every two years is say, at least 12 ? That would suggest that cats have an insignificant effect on constant wild bird population levels.

Certainly less than human activity I would have thought - loss of habitat, road kills, etc.

but wild bird populations are not constant. I would put 5 million birds down as a lot but 220 million other animals as mind blowing, that 225 million animals! Pretty shocking. Human activity includes thoughtless cat ownership.

whats cats killing birds got to do with zokes trying to be a tough guy when one shits in his garden, what the rspb say about cat shit?

Nothing directly. But as I dislike cats for two reasons:

1) they $hit in your garden
2) they are amazingly destructive to the local wildlife

These reasons are therefore interlinked in my posts here.

I tell you what, as you see no harm in the odd bit of $hit in your garden, let me have your address and I'll send you some by recorded delivery. Alternatively spread what you're saying around your garden to achieve the same effect.

So according to you, you can only care about things that come out of your own body?

No, but I fail to see how you can get so irate about me trying to discourage (perhaps over-enthusiastically) cats from being in my garden at all, crapping or otherwise, when you seem completely unconcerned about your sweet moggy torturing and necessarily killing wild birds. If you see no problem with that cruelty, perhaps we should cull irresponsible cat owners who can't see the wrongs of their animals instead, as obviously it's not moggy's fault....

zokes - with you all the way on this. Would love to be able to solve the issue of visiting cats to my bit of garden in the same way that a farmer is allowed to solve the dog atacking stock problem.

I tell you what, as you see no harm in the odd bit of $hit in your garden, let me have your address and I'll send you some by recorded delivery.

tell me your email address and i'll happily oblige

I don't own a cat, just pointing out your bizarre lack of empathy. Are you doing a Glupton, and writing up this thread for your Open University psychology course?