Boa constrictor vs dog, who would win?

[Anonymous]

Just out of curiosity friend has an 8 foot boa and a staffie or pitbull however you want to call it.

Who do you think would win!

[rigmarole]

Dogs fuck snakes up real bad. They fling them around like rope. Dogs don't back down from a fight and can take multiple bites from snakes. Dogs are fast and powerful. The big danger when it come to snakes is obviously venom. Dogs will still kill a venomous snake but, they can easily die after winning the fight from being poisoned. So you have to be careful and watch your dogs... A constrictor stands no chance against a large dog. A typical 8 foot boa might weigh 20 to 30 LB so at max their prey species are going to be roughly 2 to 3 LB where as a dog can easily be 100-150+ LB. Not to mention dogs often run in packs and if one gets bit and yipes the entire pack will team up on the animal in the blink of an eye and tear it to shreds.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/RowqtukXSkU

[Asker]

If you think dogs stand any chance against a reticulated python or anaconda you are highly deluded.

Boa maybe depending on the size. Most female boas reach over 8 feet, with many reaching 9 or 10 feet. The dog would struggle a lot.

[rigmarole]

Snakes prey is generally 10% of their body weight at maximum. For example Burmese pythons that are invasive in the Florida Everglades that get roughly 18 feet long and weigh 200 LB will typically go after animals that are 20 LB or less. I've seen an instance of an 18 foot python that swallowed a 5 foot alligator which might sound impressive on paper, but juvenile alligators that are 5 foot long only weigh about 22 LB and most of that length is a thin tail. That was enough to kill the 18 foot long 200 LB Burmese python. The python won the battle that day but lost the war. Dogs are much larger than juvenile alligators.

[rigmarole]

What you don't realize is how powerful dogs are. Untrained dog can comfortably pull three times their own weight. Trained dogs have been known to pull 90 times their own body weight in competitions at well over 4,000. Dogs are way stronger than you give them credit for. A 100 LB dog easily can clamp it's jaws on a 300 LB animal and drag it around like a fucking rag dog at it repeated tears into it's body.

[rigmarole]

at it repeatedly tears into it's body.

[rigmarole]

spell check wants to keep changing this for whatever reason...

*"as it repeatedly tears into it's body."

[rigmarole]

Seeing a Python eat a monkey or something on that level is understandable. Monkeys are often something like 15 LB or less. Dogs on the other hand are an entirely different ball game.

[rigmarole]

Here is what a 50 LB dog does to a 250 LB man when the dog is following commands to stop after putting the suspect on the ground...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnXkzLc8VhY

[Asker]

Pythons and anacondas regularly eat Deer, antelope, caimans, and sometimes jaguars and hyena. All much larger than dogs.

[rigmarole]

Baby deer weigh 5 to 8 LB. Eating a small deer is within an adult burmese python's prey range. Baby antelope can weigh 1.5 LB at birth. Same story. An adult cuvier's dwarf caiman weighs around 13 to 15 lb. I don't know how many times I have to repeat the same truth.

[rigmarole]

When you get up to 20-30 foot anacondas then you're pushing weights of like 550 LB so a 55 LB dog would be considered prey size. 55 LB is on the lower side of a medium sized bread of dogs. That said, it's not easy pray. Dogs are apex predators. If you move up to larger dogs you can hit 250 LB wrestler build mastiffs and other similar sized breads. Large dogs and relatives of dogs take down 4,000 LB buffalo with ease. 600 LB black bears often run up trees to escape dog breads like Great Pyrenees that top out at about 160 LB. Snakes have their own set of capabilities within an ecosystem, but you're really just trying to hard to box above your weight class.

[Bricealan]

I always think about most constrictor victims (animals) not having hands, and the dog only has teeth and clawed feet. and once the constrictor gets coiled around a four legged animal he is pretty much helpless in that compression from the snake, does collapse their lung capacity and they can 'hold' them with their teeth, which is how they have 'leverage' to coil. I don't give the dog victim any chance at all in that case.

As humans, we have hands and can pull the snakes head and fangs out and hopefully twist it's head off.

[BadApple69]

Depends on a lot of things… in the Everglades there are big snakes that have eaten alligators and there are alligators who have eaten big snakes. The snake needs the element of surprise. A sleeping dog might make a tasty snake for a warm snake. A cold snake would be much slower and might become a snack for the dog (or maybe just a chew toy).

[glennos89]

Depends on the dogs movement and way of biting. If the snake gets the chance to wrap himself around the dog then the dog is gone 💯 Never underestimate the power of constrictor snakes, especially the large ones. In the wild they are apex predators that any opponent will have a hard time with fighting it

[Drewtate]

Depends on the dog. If it's a pitbull or rockwieller I'd give them the win. Those are dogs that wolves won't mess with. Normally predators avoid each other, it the snake gets the first strike in they win.

[AviatorTom]

If the boa makes contact first, it would win. A smart dog would just bite quick and then run away.

[The-Stud]

Pit bull would Bite the hell out of it and since it's not venomous so pit bull is safe
Dog would still win the fight with a venemsnake but the venom might get him later

[Mansearching]

Depends on who gets jump on who. Also how big dog is. If its a puppy. No chance dog would win.

[Asker]

Average pitbull

[Mansearching]

Full grown? Depends on the jump. Most likely the snake.

[RedInnocent68]

Difficult. If the dog gets caught in the coils, the boa. But if the dog gets the snake by the head first…

[LunarEclipse433]

Pit bull due to bite strength

[Jerre]

I think the Boa would come out on top

[Twalli]

Sanke, easily