I used to have a 6 foot long boa and we would go to the store and buy 3 mice a black,white and grey one and my buddies would come over to watch it eat.We had a thing called the rat race and you had to put in 5 bucks and pick the order of colors for the trifecta win.Grown men yelling at a tank ,it was funny to watch and fun
THIS^^! I HATE when animals are killed for simply being animals. "This animal wouldn't back down....it was a danger....blah blah blah." This happened because this poor kid had idiots for parents. And I understand they wanted to get aid to the child quickly, but still. I lived in Vegas when Roy was attacked by his tiger. We'd never gone to see that show, but I was STUNNED to learn that there was no friggin' plan if the tiger decided to eat Sigfried or Roy. None. They put that audience at risk because their inflated egos thought they had a special bond with their tigers? They used a friggin fire extinguisher to try and get the cat away from him. Really??!! I like that show on Animal Planet....Fatal Attractions, because I find it remarkable how people will cause the deaths of the very creatures they profess to "love" because they are pompous jackasses who think it's their God given right to have that total sense of power and control. I always root for the animals, in those cases....natural selection needs to take these people out of the gene pool.
My bite is worse than my bark!
My daughter has a ball python. She doesn't feed it live rats. She works at a pet store, and gets frozen "gourmet rats" (I love finding them in the freezer when I'm looking for a late nite snack!) Many snakes will accept them. She has feeding tongs, and wiggles it in front of the snake, and *pounce* Sometimes, the snake gets fussy and won't eat and she goes to a local reptile store where they will "fresh kill" a rat for her. Depending on the size of the snakes and the mice or rats, the live prey can actually do some damage to the snake with scratching or biting.
My bite is worse than my bark!
When I was a child, my Noni would tell me a story of parents that put their child on the railing at the alligator farm when visiting Florida. The kid fell in and got killed. We asked her to tell the story again and again. Our local zoo is super careful, I wonder why this one wasn't. People are hella stupid.
Loonywop, there is a multi-quote feature on this board. Learn it, live it, love it. Please.
I think about this kid everytime I go to a zoo. :(
according to a first hand account from a witness (i live in pgh and this person told me) that the boy's stomach and chest were basically gutted and he was left hollow, with just his ribs showing. no real damage to face and limbs. he looked like a dirt covered doll laying there. ugh.
Out, damned spot! out, I say! .... Here?s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand!
"Stop being dicks to noobs." -mydeathspace
I tried to see if the mom has a FB, and I noticed someone has made a group with 300+ members called "The worst 'mom' in the world: Elizabeth Derkosh." I mean... Why? What is the point? Does it make them feel better about themselves as parents to call her a bad mom? I don't get it. People are so hateful. What good can come out of that? I am 100% positive she feels like a piece of shit already with no help from them.
I was really hoping he was killed by the fall how awful. my kid falls into an exhibit, I go in after him especially if I am the idiot who set him on the ledge in the first place. Where the hell are these people's maternal instincts!?
Mommy to: Misty-Allison-Elliot-Sebastian-Quinn
And our newest rugrat MISS MARLEE!!!
I'm having major problems copy/pasting. Throws me out every time I try, so I'm giving up & just posting a link for the moment. This is an update we missed last year re a settlement being reached
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-mauling.html
Wait they're going to get money for putting their own son to his demise? Well shit.
Mommy to: Misty-Allison-Elliot-Sebastian-Quinn
And our newest rugrat MISS MARLEE!!!
I've been to the Pittsburgh Zoo many times since I grew up about 45 minutes from it, and probably 80% of parents/adults do the same thing with little kids, especially little kids who are too little to see much without being picked up, not to mention the tons of kids that climb up onto stuff on their own so they can see better
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