This has to be one of the most disturbing images I’ve seen in a while.  A snake was pictured eating it’s own kind while the other wraps itself around it’s killer.

[Cannibal Snake via News.com.au]

Romanian media say a man was rearing a lion in his back garden until neighbors decided they had heard enough roaring and called police.

Rompres state news agency said police found a caged 3-year-old lioness, as well as two deer, a stag and two peacocks roaming the garden of the man’s home in the southern village of Pietrosita.

The agency’s report Wednesday said the 28-year-old man is being charged with illegal possession of wild animals and could be sentenced to up to a year in jail.

The daily Evenimentul Zilei newspaper says the lioness will be taken to the Bucharest zoo.

[Secret Garden via WVEC]

Amy Rice ran into her backyard after watching a pitbull jump over her fence and begin attaching her Labrador retriever.  After failing to pry the pit bull off of her dog, Amy bite the dog on the nose drawing blood.

[Woman Bites Back via MSNBC]

A family in New York just got a order of protection issued by a judge for their pet Duck.  The order was requested after a group of young people jumped the family’s fence and shot at the duck with pellet guns.  The bird, named Circles, is recovering from a bullet wound.

Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Chief Roy Gross says he can’t recall a previous court case involving cruelty to a duck.

[Duck Shield via CBS News]