Pictured: The horrifying moment a family's pet Siberian husky is killed by a 10ft PYTHON which slithered into their yard

Victim: The owner of Duke, a Siberian husky, said her son tried to kill the python with gardening scissors as it strangled the dog

A once-powerful Siberian husky breathes its last breaths as it lies helplessly in the death grip of a 38-pound python after the serpent slithered into a Florida family's backyard and coiled around its neck.
Duke's owners called emergency services just after 10pm when they saw the 10-foot African rock python coiled around their 60-pound pet's neck on August 30.
But within five minutes, he was dead.
The news comes after a rock python that had escaped from a Canadian pet store killed two sleeping boys, Noah and Connor Barthes, last month. 
It is not known when the python slid into the family's backyard, in an area southeast of Tamiami Trail and Krome Avenue in Miami where a colony of snakes had been breeding.
The homeowner, who refused to give her name, told CBS Miami her son tried to kill the snake.