santadog: mandingueiro: santadog: spacechicken170am: Emrick: spacechicken170am: - You are than 200 times more likely to die from taking aspirin than from a pit bull attack.

So? What point do you think you are making?

How about the point that pitbull attacks are very rare and there's a bunch of other things you need to watch out for before you have to worry about pitbulls?

Tell that to my blue heeler who was killed by one while we were on a vacation.
Tell that to my buddy's blue heeler that was killed by a pit bull that grew up with the heeler, then suddenly turned.
Tell that to my friend's Silky who had the skin shook off it when a Pitbull attacked it at a dog park.
Tell that to my friend who has a daughter that played with the pitbull all the time since it was a pup, until one day it turned on the little girl and mauled her arm.
Tell that to ME after a pitbull chased me down on a scooter.

That was all with in the span of 3 years.
Rare my ass.

1. your dog was obviously a pussy.
2. your buddy's dog was also a pussy-and to add a qualifier: dogs are pack animals and a hierarchy needed to be established...maybe your buddy could have been a little bit more aware of possible problematic behavioral problems and curbed them.
3. maybe Silky picked the wrong dog to mess with. Or the pit's owner was some asshole....
4. what did little girl do when she played with the dog? kids can be rough. what we consider friendly is different to a dog. smiling=friendliness to peole. smiling=baring of the teeth to a dog which is an aggressive act.
finally and most importantly:
5. how in the hell does a pit drive a scooter?

Your penis...it sounds very very small.

as does your sense of humor.

/snark off

orclover: God farking help the poor dumbass that tries to creep in through the window to snatch a kid, doubt we'll even find his body.

Is there really any reasonable chance that that is going to happen?

is it bad that this is all i could think of?

Is it bad that I wanted them to let the python finish his meal? I mean c'mon, he put so much work into it he should get a little reward.

DrewCurtisJr: Is there really any reasonable chance that that is going to happen?

Well we are in Austin, alot of farking California hippy transplants here now so the odd's are shooting up daily.

/damn Rick Perry to hell.

orclover: Well we are in Austin

Well that's different then

MrsHashBrown:
Is the dog allowed on other furniture, just like the humans in the family?

But is it OK to treat the dogs as furniture?

The Voice of Doomthelessa
(1 BCI, 1 Bearded Dragon, 1 cat, 1 horse, and 1 Giant Slobbering Dog{Mastiff})

"1 snake, some snake food"

You would think so, but his cage is solid, and he is well fed. That's why I am so confused about this guy and his python. Should have fed him better so he wasn't hunting.

IXI Jim IXI [
thelessa: The horse and cat were inherited when my mother passed away

Probably a good thing. If it wasn't for your horse, you wouldn't have spent that year in college.

Now if I could justify moving to Antarctica, I could take the horse with me.....

(I swear, as often as this is quoted, this girl would pop up somewhere. Thank you Lewis Black)

PS: Love the Hug pic, Jim!

Sybarite: I don't even consider snakes as "pets". A pet has to be able to form some kind of reciprocal relationship with its owner. Snakes have no idea who you are.

Sure they do! You are clearly 'lunch'.

RE spacechicken170am: Lighten up, Francis.

That long-ass list of crap that kills more people than dogs do - irrelevant. I wasn't talking about aspirin. I was talking about animals. I know human deaths caused by animals are rare. Was just saying that if you're so dumb and incompetent that your pet kills your kid, stop having kids. I'm not anti pit bull. My point was, small children are at risk from a lot of things, and large pets are one of those things. To deny that a large dog could harm or kill a kid is a denial of reality. To say that a given dog probably won't kill a toddler isn't the same thing as saying it definitely won't. Big, precariously balanced TV sets also kill small children. That doesn't mean people shouldn't have big TVs. It means stupid people who don't know that large, heavy objects can fall when they aren't secured properly shouldn't have children if they also have a big TV. The fact that something isn't guaranteed to happen doesn't mean it won't. Especially when stupid people are involved.

So, to sum up, stupid people should have either large dogs (or snakes) or small kids, but not both at the same time, because stupid people are too stupid to keep the large dogs (or snakes) from attacking the small kids.

There. Happy now?

The stabbing of this abortion provider was horrific. As taboo of a subject it is, his family will be in our hearts and minds. Dr. Python got his MD, in Asphixiology, a method of abortion that crushes all competing methods of infanticide.

I am not going to read the snarky comments of alla y'all. As someone who has owned snakes for years, and who has also been on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Northwest Herpetological Society, I have to say that whereas I feel bad for the child, I feel nothing for the parents. They basically caused a Darwinian death, as their genes will not be carried forward anymore. I do not think snakes should be banned, although a Burmese python can get to over 25 feet long and 400 lbs. As a matter of fact, the snake suffered worse than the child here. The constriction of a snake kills in seconds, but the dumb motherfarking owner decided to stab the snake repeatedly to get it off the kid instead of just unwrapping the damn thing. The kid is already dead, now you need to fark up your pet too? These people are absolute losers who deserve to A) go to jail for stupidity and manslaughter and B) not be allowed to breed again.

Having now read the first few comments of the thread, I can state with great fact that DogS Laughter, sigdiamond 2000, Sybarite, boritom, and especially notmtwain are all complete and utter douchebags who are talking out their asses about something of which they know nothing. You morons all need to STFU & GBTW because you are wasting your bosses, and our, time. Now fark off, the lot of you, and anyone else who agrees with you. You are all unworthy.

A friend told me a story, I don't know if it's an urban legend or what but it creeped me out at least. It also happened to be the first thing I thought about after reading this. Also, they were vague on details (it was their friend) so I don't know if it's a burmese python or what...

Anyway, this snake was a rather large snake. The owner had had no problems with it. Then this snake suddenly had stopped eating. It wouldn't eat the rats or rabbits or whatever they were trying to feed it. The owner took the snake to the vet to see what the problem was.

The vet nonchalantly told her that the snake was starving itself so that it could eat her.

Cheesy Rat: The constriction of a snake kills in seconds,

Right, that explains the videos I've seen of snakes constricting rats or rabbits where the animal thrashes around in tremendous pain for upwards of two or three minutes before it suffocates. REEEAAAAAL fast and painless death.

I've been rehabilitating pythons for over 5 years now.

2 rules...

When he's visibly hunting in daytime -- FEED HIM -they are sedentary creatures- if you pay attention, you will know when he's ready to feed.
When you know he's clever (any reticulate EVER) use a lock on the tank.


My two are both large, capable, and selfish. It's part of the breed. If you cannot take care of a greedy, self-absorbed, creature in the long term, don't start.

BlowPopGirl: I've been rehabilitating pythons for over 5 years now.

2 rules...

When he's visibly hunting in daytime -- FEED HIM -they are sedentary creatures- if you pay attention, you will know when he's ready to feed.
When you know he's clever (any reticulate EVER) use a lock on the tank.


My two are both large, capable, and selfish. It's part of the breed. If you cannot take care of a greedy, self-absorbed, creature in the long term, don't start.

which is why I got a divorce.

/try the veal.

mandingueiro: BlowPopGirl: I've been rehabilitating pythons for over 5 years now.

2 rules...

When he's visibly hunting in daytime -- FEED HIM -they are sedentary creatures- if you pay attention, you will know when he's ready to feed.
When you know he's clever (any reticulate EVER) use a lock on the tank.


My two are both large, capable, and selfish. It's part of the breed. If you cannot take care of a greedy, self-absorbed, creature in the long term, don't start.

which is why I got a divorce.

/try the veal.

Arggh
Didn't even see that set - up
You deserved that one

Gigglecream, wow, it's been forever and a day since I thought of Riki Tiki Tavi.