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Agreed. The snake is just doing what comes naturally, but if there was still time to save an animal (especially someone's pet) - in other words, if you saw the snake going for it and starting to coil around it - wouldn't you feel compelled to intervene?

I guess even if the other animal was already dead it'd be hard to just sit by and let the thing eat someone's pet.

Snakes are fascinating - a few people I've known over the years have had 'em as pets or whatever. They're primitive, but very good at what they do - it's an evolutionary formula for survival that has worked for a long time, so little change. Kind of like sharks.