12-Foot Snake Squeezes 2-Year-Old Girl to Death

[magnolia]

Twelve foot snake slithered into 2 year-old's bed and squeezes her to death. :sad: How incredibly horrible.


http://www.wftv.com/news/19915016/detail.html

P.S. It also bit her. :(

[kitty1182]

Oh My:sad:

Couldn't they just got a kitten or a puppy? :sad:

[magnolia]

Wonder what made the snake go to the girl's room as opposed to the adults. At least they may have been able to fight it off or help each other. :(

[kitty1182]

Wonder what made the snake go to the girl's room as opposed to the adults. At least they may have been able to fight it off or help each other. :(

:sad:............

[Debb]

Why do some parents have no regard for the safety of their own children? It seems as if more and more incidents occur in which young children are left with large snakes, aggressive dogs, near ponds and pools, in parking lots, etc. What are they thinking?

[CindR]

Actually, it was just under 9ft long, but still...I hope the owner is charged since he obviously did not have the snake secured properly. Poor little girl. :sad:

[magnolia]

Actually, it was just under 9ft long, but still...I hope the owner is charged since he obviously did not have the snake secured properly. Poor little girl. :sad:

Where did you get 9 feet? I must have missed it. They were just measuring it on the news. Regardless, ughhh. I don't think I could sleep if I knew there was a snake in my house.

[CindR]

Where did you get 9 feet? I must have missed it. They were just measuring it on the news. Regardless, ughhh. I don't think I could sleep if I knew there was a snake in my house.

It's in the link you provided:

Investigators said the snake measured 8-foot-6, despite earlier reports suggesting it was 12 feet.

I would not be able to sleep with a snake that big in my house, either. I sure wouldn't have had it anywhere near my two year old.

[magnolia]

The local news just said the snake had gotten out twice the night it killed the girl. The first time the owner put it in a bag and back in the aquarium. The second time it killed the girl.

[Patriot]

How hideous. That poor, innocent baby. And her poor mother. Pets come with responsibility and that snake should have had a padlock on it's cage.

[Spyder88]

The only ones who are and should be held accountable for this baby's death are the parents. IMHO, they deserve the death penalty if only because they are too stupid to live. :cursing:

[CindR]

The only ones who are and should be held accountable for this baby's death are the parents. IMHO, they deserve the death penalty if only because they are too stupid to live. :cursing:

The father wasn't even there. It was the boyfriend's snake.

[Debb]

It sounds as if the snake was very hungry. I thought that if a snake is well fed, it's not inclined to go out hunting for food.

[Spyder88]

The father wasn't even there. It was the boyfriend's snake.

I stand corrected. So it's actually one idiot parent and one lame-brained, loser of a b/f, both of whom should be brought up on charges of child endangerment and murder. Something so preventable. :sad:

I've been having trouble believing that snake had anything to do with the little guy's death. Oh well, either way, the so-called guardians are at fault 100%.

[magnolia]

Local news said that the snake had not been fed for a period of time from 2 weeks to 1 month. Wonder if this is normal.

Confirmed that that girl was squeezed to death (not from a bite or anything).

Mom is currently pregnant.

[magnolia]

http://www.wftv.com/news/19924295/detail.html

[R~O~S]

Local news said that the snake had not been fed for a period of time from 2 weeks to 1 month. Wonder if this is normal.

Confirmed that that girl was squeezed to death (not from a bite or anything).

Mom is currently pregnant.


Two weeks is fairly normal, but what to feed them at that size is the issue.

They should be provided a rodent as large as the snake at it's largest midsection width. It takes several days for them to digest the meal. Adults should be fed about every 7 to 10 days and juveniles every 4 to 5 days.

A snake that size would need full sized rabbits, and a month would be way outside the norm. Anything smaller than rabbits they'd need to be fed more often.

No, I don't have snakes, my son did when he lived at home. He liked lizards too. <<<shudder with memories>>>

ETA: They're simply not that adventurous provided they have the warmth they need in their enclosure and they're well fed. That this snake came out of it's enclosure twice in one night tells me the poor thing was starving.

He didn't go after the adults because they weren't an appropriate sized meal. The baby was. They swallow their meal whole, therefore the adults weren't a viable food source. Snakes are not aggressive, they eat to live. Otherwise they have no interest in you unless you threaten them.

[magnolia]

Gulp...thanks for the education, I guess. The info about the baby being the correct sized meal makes me sad. But the snake was just doing what he had to do I guess.

If they didn't feed the snake that is just asking for trouble.

P.S. I couldn't feed a snake a rabbit.

[R~O~S]

Gulp...thanks for the education, I guess. The info about the baby being the correct sized meal makes me sad. But the snake was just doing what he had to do I guess.

If they didn't feed the snake that is just asking for trouble.

P.S. I couldn't feed a snake a rabbit.


Nor could I, but if it makes you feel any better live food is not recommended for them. Preferably frozen, humanely slaughtered.

The reason: A live rodent could scratch the snake and result in infection. Some people really do love their reptiles and have serious allergies to kitties and dogs. No that wasn't my sons reasoning, he just really found them fascinating & he took very good care of them. Go figure, he's getting married in about 4 months, he doesn't have any reptiles anymore. lol