You all know how much morbid delight I get when wild animals kill and/or eat people who stupidly put themselves at risk for it. Well, over at Belchspeak, Pat has a post about this reticulated python that killed it's owner...."Medicate Diablo."
The message, scrawled on a whiteboard, referred to Amanda Ruth Black's pet python. A few feet away, its container was empty. On the floor, Black, 25, lay dead.
Black's husband had returned to their townhouse, on Maracas Arch in the Witchduck Woods area, late Tuesday night and called police after finding his wife's body, police spokesman Adam Bernstein said.
A preliminary autopsy showed that Black died of asphyxiation by neck compression. The 13-foot-long tiger reticulated python apparently overpowered her as she tried to administer medication to it, Bernstein said.
Animal Control Officer, Doug Humphrey said Black apparently was trying to use a syringe to squirt medication into Diablo's mouth when it turned on her.
It wasn't clear what ailment the snake had, but Humphrey said Black's husband had told authorities "the snake did not like being given the medication, nor did he like the medication."
The snake didn't like the medication nor being given it....no kidding!
What makes people think that a large, aggressive, carnivorous reptiles make good pets? You cannot domesticate, or make friends with, or build a rapport with, a reptile. They see you as their potential next meal. That is all you are to them. That's reason enough to not keep one as a pet. It already wants to eat you, but to then piss it off by cramming bad tasting medicine down it's throat? Who couldn't have predicted this outcome?
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