Hello!
Welcome back to most amazing Top 10 – I am Rebecca Felgate and I do consider myself
to be an animal lover….although this list has taught me a thing or two about responsible
pet ownership….animals are…at the end of the day….animals….and we need to treat
them with respect if not we may end up like the people on this list….eaten….
10 - Finger eating Ferret In January 2011, a pet ferret ate 7 fingers
of a four month old sleeping baby in Missori.
The boy’s parents were awoken in the middle of the night to hear their baby crying.
When the father went to investigate, he found the pet ferret had escaped and had been feasting
on their baby’s fingers.
He killed the ferret by pulling it off his son and called an ambulance.
Sadly the parents did not have the 100 dollar license they needed to own the pet and found
themselves in hot water with social services.
Luckily the boy survived but is now left with just two thumbs and a little finger.
9 People eating Oregon Pigs In many movies bodies are fed to pigs to hide
the evidence, for it seems to be a well known fact that pigs will eat people, given half
the chance.
Well…this was confirmed in 2012 when a Pig owner by the name of Terry Vance Garner was
eaten by his swines.
The 69 year old set out to feed his pigs, and when he didn’t return several hours
later, his family went out to look for him, just finding his dentures and a few small
remains… that’s right, the pigs had consumed almost his entire body within hours.
Some of the pigs weighed over 700lbs..so they were pretty insanely hefty.
It is not known whether Garner fell as a result of a medical issue, or whether the pigs knocked
him over with the intention of harming him….. scary..and very sad.
8 - The idiot abroad Hippo Humphrey the Hippo was seen on television
in season two of Karl Pilkington’s an Idiot Abroad.
In one episode, Pilkington visits a South African family who owned a hippo and treated
it like a member of the family.
Marius Els said that he considered Humphrey the Hippo to be like a son to him.
Marius had raised Humphrey since he was 5 months old, but eventually the 1200 kilo hippo
killed him by biting him repeatedly and dragging him into water, eating parts of his body.
7 - Cynthia Lee’s Tiger Cyndi Lee Gamble was a film maker and animal
lover who trained and kept big cats.
Sadly in 2006, she was eaten by her 500 pound Bengal Tiger as a gate was left open in its
cage.
The 52 year old big cat enthusiast was found dead at her property in Minnesota and it was
conclude that the tiger pounced on her.
The tiger in question was late put down.
There have been a lot of instances of big cats eating their owners, because of the nature
of her work there are lots of pictures of Cyndi with her tiger…but this story could
be of many many other big cats kept in captive in an attempt to tame them as pets…it just
isn’t in their nature.
6 - Rocky the Grizzly Bear Rocky was a 4 year old Grizzly bear slash
stunt bear used on various TV and films, including in Will Ferrell movie, Semi Pro.
In 2008, the young bear bit trainer his trainer, Stephan Miller in the neck during filming
for a promo video at the Predators in Action facility in California.
As the cameras were already rolling for the video, the tragic turn of events were caught
on film….Stephen was attempting a bear wrestling stunt that went wrong.
The video is especially shocking because at first, it looks like Stephan is going to be
okay, however, as the bear bit and pierced his jugular, he bled to death within minutes.
5 - Janet Veal’s Cats Ahh..
Janet’s tale is very sad.
People joke about lonely cat ladies, but this was very much Janet’s life.
The 56 year old was found on the floor of her Hampshire home in England in 2013 having
been eaten by her cats.
Neighbours reported that she was missing only when they saw that her letter box was over
flowing.
Some of Janet’s animals had died of starvation but a number of her cats had survived several
weeks from gnawing on and eating their dead owner.
Janet is thought to have slipped and fell or suffered some kind of breathing related
issue that ultimately led to her death.
4 - 46 Dogs who feasted on one woman.
In 2015, a woman from Arkansas was the cause of the death of 27 dogs.
The 65 year old woman, who had Hepatitus C and lived in a trailer with her pack of 46
dogs had regularly been visited by authorities who wanted her to give up some of her animals.
Sadly, she passed away and by the time police came to investigate her disappearance, the
dogs had begun eating her body.
They weren’t all big dogs either, some were small…they had just become so malnourished
they needed to eat.
Sadly, as the dogs had become territorial over their food, 9 of them were shot to gain
entry to her trailer.
In the end, over half the dogs, 27 in total, were euthanized.
3 - Hamster that burrowed in a face The image you are looking at now is the skull
of a woman who’s hamster buried in her face.
Dr Carolyn Rando, a forensic anthropologist spoke to buzzfeed about animals that eat their
owners and regaled a grim story.
She said she was working on a case of a woman who died of pneumonia and was found with unusual
marks on her face.
It turns out that the woman’s furry pet had set up a new home in the womans decomposing
face.
Gross.
Dr Rando said it wasn’t uncommon for rodents to use bodies as shelter, but usually when
they’re reduced to bone.
Some Rodents, gnaw at bones to grind down their front teeth.
Fun fun fun.
Okay, so this isn’t a pet…but next up at number 2….this python ate a man whole….
Plenty of people HAVE been killed by their pet python, however the pythons struggle to
actually eat them.
In this news story from March 2017, a Python managed to eat a man whole and the aftermath
was caught on camera….
Albeit a slightly sub par phone camera in portrait mode.
A 25 year old man called Akbar went missing in Indonesia while working on a palm oil plantation…it
seems the snake, a reticulated python, one of the largest snakes in the world, had taken
Akbar and consumed him…
The 23 ft snake was later found bulging, and was cut open by locals to reveal the body
of the young man.
…. Soo….
I just watched a video of a dead man be pulled from a snake.
I think I am done with today…although I still have to deliver you a number one…so…I
will…but then I am done.
Finally…at number one…Bettina the Black Window.
In 2004, police were called to Mark Vogel’s home after a stink was reported by neighbours.
Sadly the police found what can only be described as a horror scene at the man’s apartment
in Dortmand, Germany.
Vogel was said to be a loner who lived in a small jungle apartment with hundreds of
exotic animals.
Among the animals was a black widow spider he called Bettina, a number of other dangerous
spiders as well as a collection of lizards and snakes.
Bettina was thought to have bitten Vogel, who was then eaten by the rest of his pets.
Police who entered the apartment described giant webs draped around the body of the 30
year old, with chunks of him laying in webs of tarantulas and bird eating spiders in other
corners of the room.
One officer said that there were spiders coming out of his nose and mouth.
Lovely.
How did they get out?
Well, he had been dead a few days when the heating elements on some of the animals cages
had exploded, allowing them to escape.
So that was the top ten animals that ate their owners…..which is pretty terrifying…..and
has put me off owning pigs for life!