bodhi said:
I also said I would kill the owner.
I understand nature perfectly well thank you. I watch animal documentaries, but I don't like watching animals kill other animals and I don't like the struggle. I'm not naive enough to believe the snake wasn't just acting on instinct.
Whether you would or wouldn't kill the owner of a snake who munched your pet cat is questionable.
I don't like watching animals kill other animals either but one still can't help but marvel when a big cat brings down a wildebeest for lunch, law of nature and fascinating stuff. Where would David Attenborough be without such footage?
bodhi said:
What I would ask though, is if a large dog had attacked and killed a cat, people would be calling for it to be put down, and I would be one of them. It's not because the snake isn't cute and cuddly, it's because it's doing damage to domestic animals, and in turn people's lifes.
I would also be asking for a dog that killed a cat to be put down because that would be the actions of a rogue dog who'd likely kill again. And I'm going to assume we have no wild dogs roaming our urban enviroments and countrysides and that any dog which killed is a domestically owned animal with a human being for an owner.
Therefore it would be 99% certain that it would be the influence of that owner that turned the dog rogue. Unfortunately, once a dog has been ill-treated, starved, neglected and subject to cruelty, it's rare that it will return to being a well-tempered animal so putting down would be the only answer imo.
The snake, however, isn't so trainable as a dog and will only react as far as I know on the needs of it's stomach. Therefore imo it should not be put down. So called animal lovers who would kill the snake that killed their cat are truly not animal lovers but surely are just weak willed vindictive humans acting out of spite and revenge without truly understanding the law of nature.
The real punishment in this case would be to confiscate the pet from the owner and ban them from owning animals for life as they are plainly not responsible enough to tend to the needs of a pet as exotic as a Boa Constrictor.
It would then be likely a new home could be found for the snake, probably a zoo or if not a private owner as they're expensive animals but if that was impossible then I guess the snake would have to be humanely put down as well.
Note the word 'humanely' all animal lovers and also the word 'legally' applies here.
bodhi said:
You can find this funny if you like, however it just show's an enormous lack of respect for people's feelings.
I do find it funny as I have often said in this thread but think about it - I find it funny from a distance. It's safe to laugh at things that are remote.
Do you really think I'd laugh out loud at the owners of the unfortunate moggie? How bitter and twisted can some people think of others? You make false accusations of me bodhi... The owners have my sympathy but it still doesn't detract from the humour of pussy-din-dins....
Humour takes many forms. It's also a great safety valve in times of stress, discomfort and horror.
Sometimes the awful and the absurd just have to be laughed at.
