Saturday, January 27, 2007

Snake snacks on 11 guard dogs

One by one, the guard dogs disappeared without trace.

The locals first thought they must have wandered off, even though they were well cared for.

But after three months 11 dogs had vanished from the Malaysian village of Kampung Pogoh and villagers began to suspect something in the jungle was making a meal of them.

Python

Their suspicions were confirmed when a huge python was discovered half a mile from the village.

Ali Yusof, 35, who lost the 11 dogs - and suspects several more had also been eaten by the 25ft reptile - found it coiled up at the edge of a swamp near his mango orchard.

'What puzzled me was that there were no remains. There was no sign of a struggle, no blood, - nothing. So when I saw that big, big snake, I knew what had happened. It is so big it could swallow a dog in one piece.'

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