Random Terrifying Stories Of Pets Who Turned On Their Owners (18 items)

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  (#7) A Pet Mountain Lion Attacked A Child In Texas

  Amber Michelle Couch, had already received citations from the animal control department of Odessa, TX, related to her 150-pound pet mountain lion. The animal wasn't current on his vaccinations and his cage was too small for his size. Not only that, but the gaps in between the bars were too wide - a safety hazard to anyone who got close.

  In October 2011, a young boy got too close to the cage and the lion jabbed a paw through the gaps, slashing the child's face and his left side. The child survived, but the lion was put down.
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  (#15) A Farmer Was Devoured By His Pet Pigs

  Family members of Oregon farmer Terry Vance Garner were shocked to discover his dentures and undisclosed body parts in his pig enclosure several hours after Garner went missing. Authorities think Garner either suffered cardiac arrest and fell into the pen or was knocked over by the huge animals before being eaten. The investigation dragged on for months, and never produced a conclusive verdict as to whether the animals killed Garner or simply ate him after he passed on.

  In a strange addendum to the story, police later raided Garner's farm and arrested his son on multiple drugs and weapons violations.
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  (#4) A Hoarder Was Bitten By His Pet Black Widow

  A resident of Dortmund, Germany, Mark Voegel lived a solitary life in a small apartment, keeping the company only of the numerous insects and snakes he collected as pets. It was one of these, a black widow spider, that caused his demise. In the roughly two weeks it took for him to be found, his menagerie feasted on him.

  Hundreds of spiders, lizards, and snakes - along with countless termites - had consumed him, with webs draping his body, and bits of him scattered all around the apartment.
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  (#13) A Man Was Trampled By His Pet Bull

  A day before his 53rd birthday, Pennsylvania man Ricky D. Weinhold was killed by his one-ton pet bull. Investigators found he'd suffered a number of devastating injuries from the hooves and head of the bull and was likely trampled to death. The bull had already injured Weinhold a year earlier, and his friends pleaded with him to get rid of it. He did not. 
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  (#8) Humphrey The Hippo Ate His Owner

  In 2011, former South African Army major Marius Els was savagely bitten by his pet hippopotamus, Humphrey. Els had adopted the 1.2-ton creature when it was just five months old, after the animal was rescued from a flood, and had attempted to domesticate it. "Humphrey's like a son to me, he's just like a human," he told a reporter earlier in the year. "There's a relationship between me and Humphrey and that's what some people don't understand."

  Humphrey had already done his share of damage, breaking out of his pen many times, chasing golfers, and more. African authorities caution people not to keep hippos as pets, as they're impossible to train, can run 30 miles per hour, and cause more deaths than almost every other wild animal in the country combined.

   
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  (#12) Pet Wolf Dogs Tore Their Owner Apart

  Pennsylvania woman Sandra Piovesan kept nine half-wolf, half-dog hybrids as pets, insisting they gave her "unqualified love." She lived alone with dozens of animals, including the wolf dogs. She was found dead in the animals' enclosure with multiple injuries, and the wolf dogs were put down.

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