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Snake Owner of Killer Python also had Illegal 'Crocs'

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Northern African Rock Python (Python sebae). Illustration from a famous 18th-century work of reference, edited by Albertus Seba, a Dutch pharmacist and collector of zoological and other natural subjects. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


memorial to boys strangled by snake
Soft toys in a memorial to the brothers Noah and Connor Barthe near the apartment where they were killed in the town of Campbellton.
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Four alligators and six crocodiles seized with the man who owned the python that killed two boys in Canada.

    Jean-Claude Savoie had neither permission to keep in his home  a python, alligators or crocodiles, according to Canadian authorities.
    A number of tortoises were seized in Savoie pet store in the town of Campbellton on Thursday.
    Two brothers who were on overnight visits with Savoies' son, was in all probability killed by an African rock python earlier this week.

    - The python was kept in the apartment


    Investigators assumed first that the snake had escaped from a cage at the store, but now believe it was kept in Savoie apartment.
    It must first be able to get out of a glass container in a room next to the room where the boys were sleeping.
    Then slipped it through an air plant and into the bedroom where the brothers were strangled.

    May have awakened snake hunting instinct

    The brothers were playing with the animals in Savoie store earlier in the day, may have contributed to the accident, according to Professor Marion Desmarcheliere the Atlantic Veterinary College.
    In the shop there are goats, and  the smell of them could have attached  on the boys and awakened snake hunting instinct.
    Brothers Noah and Connor Barth, who were four and six years old, buried in Campbellton Saturday.

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