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Python swallows cat in Florida backyard

Miami Gardens, Florida - Elidia Rodriguez of Miami Gardens had been looking for her year-old Siamese cat for two days when her son pointed out the bulging Burmese python slithering in her backyard.

Experts say that bulge in the 12-foot snake is probably the missing 15-pound cat.

Rodriguez got the cat last year as a post-hurricane gift. She named the cat Frances, after the storm.

The snake was spotted in Rodriguez's backyard yesterday.

Experts with the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue antivenin unit says Frances wouldn't have stood a chance against the larger predator.

The snake was captured and taken to the Sense of Wonder Nature Center at AD Barnes National Park


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the idiot lets her beloved purebred cat outside in the first place. Everybody who has an indoor/outdoor cat knows the risks, cars, disease, mean people, dogs, and apparantly in some places pythons. Plus the bulge could be anything to be honest, a big rabbit, someone else's cat, neighbors toy poodle...
If it is the cat I feel bad for the poor thing, but hey, she let it outside knowing the dangers. I just wish people wouldnt dump unwanted snakes because when stuff like this hits the news so many people decide all snakes must be evil kitty killers and that it should be illegal to keep them.
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oh yea so lets disect it and kill an innocent animal. they cant even get thier facts straight! the article says 15lb cat and the video says 18lb! people are ignorant
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That was probably not an "unwanted snake". Burms are breeding in the wild down in that area of Fla. and it was probably one of those.
Nice looking snake though.
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That was probably not an "unwanted snake". Burms are breeding in the wild down in that area of Fla. and it was probably one of those.
Nice looking snake though.

your probly right, and probly everyone in florida knows about the burm thing...they should been more careful about it.
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This has been covered in much greater detail in South Florida papers, in fact its the number 1 story in the Miami Herald. The media is all over this and the end result is unlikely to be good for the herp community.

I tried to post this earlier in the news form but it didn't go up:

Posted on Mon, Oct. 10, 2005

MIAMI GARDENS
Python devours family's house cat
A missing Siamese cat apparently was the snake's last meal
BY CARLI TEPROFF AND LUISA YANEZ
cteproff@herald.com

Like any cat, Frances, a 1-year-old Siamese named after the hurricane, had a simple daily routine.

He slept, ate and enjoyed hunting lizards in the woods behind his owner's home.

Two days ago, Frances vanished.

His whereabouts possibly were revealed Sunday. A snake expert says Frances is the bulge inside a 12-foot-long Burmese python that trapped and swallowed the 15-pound cat whole, just feet from its backyard in Miami Gardens.

''We've been looking for him,'' a distraught Elidia Rodriguez, 66, said of her cat.

The snake was captured and taken to a nature preserve.

This marks the second time this month that a python in Miami-Dade has tangled with another animal with deadly results. Earlier, a 13-foot python had a run-in with an American alligator in Everglades National Park, and neither animal survived.

Why all the aggressive and free-moving pythons all of a sudden?

Capt. Al Cruz of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue antivenin unit said Sunday's case can likely be blamed on the recent rains.

''They are looking for dry land,'' said Cruz, who explained that climate changes affect pythons' life patterns.

Many pythons end up in the wild after being abandoned by their owners once they grow too big to handle; others are escapees.

How Frances, a gift to Rodriguez after last year's Hurricane Frances, apparently ended up in the python's grip no one saw.

But a missing animal and a bulge in the gut of a nearby snake makes for an easy equation.

A cat would have been no match for the python, much like last month's alligator.

Cruz said most pythons are made of pure muscle and are fierce predators. He said the strength of the nonvenomous python can kill a human.

Pythons strangle their prey before they eat it, Cruz said. They then dislocate their jaw to swallow it.

''A python's jaw is like a rubber band,'' he said. In this case, he estimated the python's girth at about 15 inches.

The cat might have walked right into the snake's striking zone, Cruz said.

''Unfortunately, it had no chance of surviving,'' he said.

Rodriguez, who lives in the 20900 block of Northwest 39th Avenue with her husband, Andres, two sons, three dogs and four remaining cats, said Frances failed to show up for breakfast Saturday.

''My husband thought he was in love. Poor baby. He was my favorite cat. I know Siamese [cats] are supposed to be distant, but he slept in my bed and everything,'' Elidia Rodriguez said.

The Rodriguezes learned of France's possible fate, and the monster snake lurking just five feet from the backyard, by chance on Sunday.

A man whose stolen car was abandoned in the woods behind Rodriguez's home came by Sunday to scour the grounds, hoping to find the wallet taken with the car.

''He came running over and said there was a really big snake over there,'' Elidia Rodriguez said. She called 911 and was referred to Miami-Dade animal control. Cruz, who usually answers calls for snake bites, arrived at about noon and found the snake coiled in the thick brush. Cruz said in order to get close, the brush had to be cut, which angered the python.

''He was very aggressive,'' said Cruz, who noted that it was obvious from the bulge in its stomach that the snake had eaten an animal. Snakes become sluggish when full. ``He didn't want to be bothered.''

Cruz explained that it takes about a month for a snake to digest its prey.

It took about 10 minutes for two Miami-Dade Fire Rescue workers and Cruz to trap the brown-and-black snake in a king-size pillowcase.

''That thing was huge,'' Cruz said, estimating it weighed about 80 pounds.

The snake was placed in the back of a police car and driven to the Sense of Wonder Nature Center at A.D. Barnes National Park at 3401 SW 72nd Ave. It will not be destroyed.

When the snake arrived at its new home, Cruz and Lt. Charles Seifert let it slither around on the ground in front of the center in a last taste of freedom. The python now will spend its days in a glass cage in the nature center.

''It is a matter of public safety,'' Cruz said.

Back in Miami Gardens, Rodriguez still clings to hope that Frances will walk through the door and that the mysterious bulge was another animal.

``I still would like to know for sure that it's him in the snake's stomach.''
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Dbutton, Burmese Pythons are NOT native to the USA. Any burm in the wild is either released or the result of released animals finding each other and breeding in the wild. It still makes the problem being people releasing their unwanted snakes. They didnt just randomly get here by magic, people let them go and the habitat was so good that they have thrived and even reproduced.
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im confused, one article says the snake wil be disected, while another one said it wont...
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its gonna make us reptile keepers look bad, they wont look at us seperaatly all bad in futre
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AP has picked up the story now:

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/florida/MGBRAR0WMEE.html
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I know that they are not native to Fla, or the US for that matter. But the fact remains that they are breeding in the wild and have been since the 80's. How they got there is obvious too. What I was trying to say was that it was more than likely not someones pet that escaped or was released, but one of the wild burms that are in South Fla. now.
It will still look bad for reptile keepers though, and that is really a shame.

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What cracks me up is that no one seems to be botherd by the fact that cat is out decimating local wildlife, but when the local wildlife strikes back....oh there's #$%^&#$%^&#$%^&#$%^& to pay!
The general population has such strange logic....
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What cracks me up is that no one seems to be botherd by the fact that cat is out decimating local wildlife, but when the local wildlife strikes back....oh there's #$%^&#$%^&#$%^&#$%^& to pay!
The general population has such strange logic....
100% right but if its warm and fuzzy, it gets the sympathy vote.
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Oh yeah, domestic cats are horrible for native wildlife. They kill small reptiles, mammals and birds and they dont discriminate against endangered species. Also they often hunt for fun, not to eat since they can go home to their dish of fresh kibble when they are done killing. Now dont get me wrong, I LOVE cats, mine is like my child. But when people let them outdoors unsupervised they need to be aware of the risks to native wildlife and to their pet cat. I dont feel a bit sorry for the lady, if the cat meant that much she should have provided an enriching indoor home for it. Too bad the general public doesnt agree. Plus whos to say this snake actually did eat that specific cat, maybe it got hit by a car or even found by another person who thought it was dumped and took it in as their pet.
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Sun-Sentinal has a poll on their front page as to whether there should be new laws. You can guess which way this is going........

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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Sun-Sentinal has a poll on their front page as to whether there should be new laws. You can guess which way this is going........

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
The way they put that poll up its no wonder why people are voting the way they are.

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Should Florida have tougher laws to discourage or ban the ownership of pythons, Nile monitor lizards and other exotic pets that get free and cause problems for native wildlife and vegetation?
They should have left off the "that get free and cause problems for native wildlife and vegetation?"

Then the response is all about how safe they are as pets. One has nothing to do with the other. Dang some people are stupid.
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The way they put that poll up its no wonder why people are voting the way they are.


They should have left off the "that get free and cause problems for native wildlife and vegetation?"

Then the response is all about how safe they are as pets. One has nothing to do with the other. Dang some people are stupid.
Yea, if they were impartial they might have done that. Based on the coverage its pretty clear where all the local media feel this should lead.
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So did I but we're a bit outnumbered.
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Yea, it is 93% for banning so I would have to say that we are the minority. And with all the publicity that the burms in the glades are getting now plus the nile monitor colony on Pine Island (S.W. Fla) doesn't help much either.

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