Pet Lizards Feast on Owner
- Thread starter Doggiedog
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Why let a good corpse go to waste?
It doesn't look like the lizards killed him, looks like he died and they decided to eat him.
It doesn't look like the lizards killed him, looks like he died and they decided to eat him.
Geekbabe
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after the rerference to the lizard doing pushup's on a rock in another thread I find this one rather disturbing !!!
Make it a petting zoo for the kids and then turn it into a new reality TV show
That would put a bizarre twist to being called "Hand Fed" lizards.
That would put a bizarre twist to being called "Hand Fed" lizards.
Don Vito Corleone
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Ack! One of my old roommates had a Nile monitor and that thing was an amazingly vicious critter.
He also had several large snakes (one, a then-12-foot Burmese python, once bit me and wrapped up my arm for about 15 minutes), but the lizard was much cleverer and meaner-tempered than any snake I have ever seen. Once it nearly took off the tip of his finger, and sat there glaring at him and drinking his blood until we pried its mouth open with two spoons. Monitors have teeth like a tiger shark. I remain a bit amazed that there is a healthy trade not only in exotic pets like monitors, but also in poisonous snakes, which are readily available over the Internet and perfectly legal to buy and own in most places.
I actually knew a guy who had two large monitors and they were sufficiently domesticated that he had them freely running around in his apartment - they would defecate in the bathtub. They are quite smart for reptiles, and can be decent pets, but to me there is nothing companionable about an animal that is that willing to eat me!
He also had several large snakes (one, a then-12-foot Burmese python, once bit me and wrapped up my arm for about 15 minutes), but the lizard was much cleverer and meaner-tempered than any snake I have ever seen. Once it nearly took off the tip of his finger, and sat there glaring at him and drinking his blood until we pried its mouth open with two spoons. Monitors have teeth like a tiger shark. I remain a bit amazed that there is a healthy trade not only in exotic pets like monitors, but also in poisonous snakes, which are readily available over the Internet and perfectly legal to buy and own in most places.
I actually knew a guy who had two large monitors and they were sufficiently domesticated that he had them freely running around in his apartment - they would defecate in the bathtub. They are quite smart for reptiles, and can be decent pets, but to me there is nothing companionable about an animal that is that willing to eat me!
I don't care what you people say, I'm gonna imagine that seven "man-eating" lizards started whipping him with their tails and just started nipping at him until he gave in...
"Hand Fed" lizards... nice.
Well, in my opinion, these animals were only doing what was natural to them. They needed food afterall. I doubt they ganged up on him to kill him. If they started doing that, he probably could have just chucked some ground beef their way and made them leave him alone. I don't know... I just doesn't seem plausible that they killed him.
Anyway, I've seen nile monitors that were unbelievably tame. They were raised along side kittens, and never once tried to eat one. They really can be amazing pets, but just like a dog, you have to take the time to train them.
Ryan
Well, in my opinion, these animals were only doing what was natural to them. They needed food afterall. I doubt they ganged up on him to kill him. If they started doing that, he probably could have just chucked some ground beef their way and made them leave him alone. I don't know... I just doesn't seem plausible that they killed him.
Anyway, I've seen nile monitors that were unbelievably tame. They were raised along side kittens, and never once tried to eat one. They really can be amazing pets, but just like a dog, you have to take the time to train them.
Ryan
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<< They were raised along side kittens, and never once tried to eat one. >>
Well, that's all you can ask for from a pet, right? NOT EATING the other pets?
>>ROFL... Good point, but you do have to grant me the fact that it was pretty cool that a carnivorious lizard didn't try to eat a warm piece of food.
Ryan
The largest was only 25 lbs. Unless this guy was a dinky little shrimp, or handicapped in some way, I seriously doubt it was the lizards that killed him. Drop kick the little suckers, and they'd give up pretty quick. I think he was already dead, they got hungry and did what was natural for them. There are plenty of stories around of this happening with other, more domesticated animals.
Russ, NCNE
Russ, NCNE
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<< The largest was only 25 lbs. Unless this guy was a dinky little shrimp, or handicapped in some way, I seriously doubt it was the lizards that killed him. Drop kick the little suckers, and they'd give up pretty quick. I think he was already dead, they got hungry and did what was natural for them. There are plenty of stories around of this happening with other, more domesticated animals.
Russ, NCNE >>
That depends Russ. It could have been a well coordinated attack (NE1 seen Congo?
). "IF" he was alive, my guess is that one of those mofos either whipped their tail at him or ran into him knocking him down. Then another bit a vital organ with their mouth (they know where to strike). Could have been a leg artery, neck, arm, you name it. After that, it was all over.
Geekbabe
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<< The largest was only 25 lbs. Unless this guy was a dinky little shrimp, or handicapped in some way, I seriously doubt it was the lizards that killed him. Drop kick the little suckers, and they'd give up pretty quick. I think he was already dead, they got hungry and did what was natural for them. There are plenty of stories around of this happening with other, more domesticated animals.
Russ, NCNE >>
bleck !! that thought kills my appetite for lunch !!
<< "If" you die? Still hoping for immortality, eh?
>>yeah, "hoping"...................
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HomeBrewerDude
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I've taken the liberty of offering a few editorial commenets for the original article (see bold below):
<< "They're alive and well fed," said SPCA director John Caldwell. He added that one of the reptiles recovered was acting aggressively, "actually going toward you, hissing with a full mouth, wide open."
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<< "They're alive and well fed," said SPCA director John Caldwell. He added that one of the reptiles recovered was acting aggressively, "actually going toward you, hissing with a full mouth, wide open."
>>
Death by lizard is something i never dreamed of!
Now death by chicken, that would be painfully slow!
Now death by chicken, that would be painfully slow!
<< my guess is that one of those mofos either whipped their tail at him or ran into him knocking him down. >>
NSF4,
A lizard that small is not going to be strong enough to knock down a full grown man with it's tail. Unless the guy has no fight or flight reflex at all, the panic reaction combined with a huge physical size advantage would be more then enough to either get the hell out of there, or leave a few dead and battered lizards around. These things are not T-Rex.
Russ, NCNE
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