Three-Year Old Attacked By 150 Kg Snake

A small child wandered into his mother’s bedroom while she was in the bathroom and was attacked by the snake that was being “kept” there. The snake, a 150 kg, 18 foot Tiger Python bit the boy in the armpit and grabbed him and began to coil around him in order to suffocate and eat him. His mother attacked the snake, stabbing it 17 times before the police and animal control officers arrived to capture the snake and rescue the child.

The child was fine in the end, but the snake was so badly injured that it had to be put down.

By now I can hear you yelling at your computer screens, “What the heck was a boa constrictor doing in the bedroom of the mother of a three-year old?” I was yelling it too, believe me. And I haven’t found an answer.

Pet store owner, Jim Tracy advised reporters that the snake had been mishandled by its keeper and was the victim of her negligence. I agree with that. I pity the snake as well as the child. But I also think that some animals are not meant to be kept as pets (and shouldn’t be sold, therefore, in pet stores). There are animals who have lived with humans for millennia (dogs, horses, cats and cattle) and are meant to coexist with them symbiotically. But there are animals people have no business dragging into their Vegas bedrooms and pythons are one of those animals.