Geno44
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According to USA Today, the dog is recovering. I'm glad but surprised. I figured it was a goner given the lethality of cobra venom. I haven't read that they have caught or killed the snake yet or identified the stupid owner.
Monocled Cobra on the loose in Thousand Oaks Calif.
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Best scenario is to find a big fat King Snake with the tip of a white tail hanging out of his mouth.
Doug M.
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There is a serious market for some kinds of rare and beautiful specimens such as this. It is a mostly if not completely underground and unlawful market, with all the stupidity and risk that goes along. I happen to like my pets more affectionate, like dogs and cats. I admit that if I were to encounter this the odds of it getting shot right now are very high.
Texas Star
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News on the Net said they'd have to fly in antivenin from the San Diego zoo if anyone is bitten.
Considering that a similar cobra head, severed, killed a Chinese cook this week before he could be given this antidote, this is a very risky situation for people in that area.
On the other hand, millions of people live near cobras and the various mambas and Australian elapids and are never bitten.
Maybe a cat will kill it. It may never be seen again.
And the black mamba mentioned above may still be around. It gets cold on the high veldt in the Transvaal and other places and they live there. Could it hibernate in a warm hole? In a home?
If it does get cold, these snakes may invade a house.
Considering that a similar cobra head, severed, killed a Chinese cook this week before he could be given this antidote, this is a very risky situation for people in that area.
On the other hand, millions of people live near cobras and the various mambas and Australian elapids and are never bitten.
Maybe a cat will kill it. It may never be seen again.
And the black mamba mentioned above may still be around. It gets cold on the high veldt in the Transvaal and other places and they live there. Could it hibernate in a warm hole? In a home?
If it does get cold, these snakes may invade a house.
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vigil617
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I feel sorry for the thing.
Everybody and anybody after it with intent to kill, the media saying it "attacked" a dog (I betcha it was just defending itself), folks theorizing it will "invade" a house if the weather turns cold ("seek shelter" is more like it), and all the while it has precious little natural camouflage unless there's a snowstorm in Thousand Oaks in September.
Somebody please: corner it, call in to Animal Control, and let them catch it, and turn it over to whoever can restore it to a herpetarium, or better yet, fly it back to wherever it came from to be released into the wild.
It's not this thing's fault it had a careless owner. Live and let live, if at all possible.....
Everybody and anybody after it with intent to kill, the media saying it "attacked" a dog (I betcha it was just defending itself), folks theorizing it will "invade" a house if the weather turns cold ("seek shelter" is more like it), and all the while it has precious little natural camouflage unless there's a snowstorm in Thousand Oaks in September.
Somebody please: corner it, call in to Animal Control, and let them catch it, and turn it over to whoever can restore it to a herpetarium, or better yet, fly it back to wherever it came from to be released into the wild.
It's not this thing's fault it had a careless owner. Live and let live, if at all possible.....
Texas Star
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Get real. Do you really think it's justified to fly this dangerous snake back to Asia, where there are plenty more like it, if not albinos? But you have a point about displaying it in a suitable place, like a zoo.
If it WAS released into the wild, it'd stand out too much and probably be killed by some animal or people. It may well have been bred in captivity for that albino quality, anyway.
Maybe it'll go back wherever it escaped from and bite the guy there. He sort of deserves it. I detest people who keep dangerous animals so they can get high off it.
them things would thrive down here in south florida just like all those big pythons they find
gdnagle
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Now with all this talk about killing it. Being this is CA and this snake is a minority, wouldn't CA consider this as a hate crime.
IIRC many decades ago when I lived in MD there was a exotic snake place that had quite a few poisonous snakes including cobra's. He closed the front doors because of bankruptcy and opened the cages. Luckily it was getting on winter there and I don't remember any ever being found.
So now MD has snakehead fish also. Hope they don't mate with the cobra if still alive and then they will have poisonous fish.
I feel anyone caught importing and selling, or buying any type of plant or animal illegally need to go to prison as a example to others. Epically the idiot's that release them or let's them escape because they got tired of them.
There are plenty of dogs and cats that need to be adopted so why would you want a deadly creature. Look what is happening in FL with the constrictors.
IIRC many decades ago when I lived in MD there was a exotic snake place that had quite a few poisonous snakes including cobra's. He closed the front doors because of bankruptcy and opened the cages. Luckily it was getting on winter there and I don't remember any ever being found.
So now MD has snakehead fish also. Hope they don't mate with the cobra if still alive and then they will have poisonous fish.
I feel anyone caught importing and selling, or buying any type of plant or animal illegally need to go to prison as a example to others. Epically the idiot's that release them or let's them escape because they got tired of them.
There are plenty of dogs and cats that need to be adopted so why would you want a deadly creature. Look what is happening in FL with the constrictors.
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Ya know?????? I'll bet that ole snake would make a right neat pair of boots..You'd have the only one of a kind Albino Cobra snake skin boots.
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Now with all this talk about killing it. Being this is CA and this snake is a minority, wouldn't CA consider this as a hate crime.
IIRC many decades ago when I lived in MD there was a exotic snake place that had quite a few poisonous snakes including cobra's. He closed the front doors because of bankruptcy and opened the cages. Luckily it was getting on winter there and I don't remember any ever being found.
So now MD has snakehead fish also. Hope they don't mate with the cobra if still alive and then they will have poisonous fish.
I feel anyone caught importing and selling, or buying any type of plant or animal illegally need to go to prison as a example to others. Epically the idiot's that release them or let's them escape because they got tired of them.
There are plenty of dogs and cats that need to be adopted so why would you want a deadly creature. Look what is happening in FL with the constrictors.
I've seen stories that there ARE loose cobras in Florida! Not sure if there's a breeding population.
There are also many Nile monitor lizards there.
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italiansport
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I don't know about Cobras but there is definitely a breeding population of Burmese Pythons in Florida. The stupidity of anyone wanting something like this for a "pet" escapes me.
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+1. This is the best reply so far. The snake didn't ask to be put in that position. Didn't ask to be taken out of it's native habitat and sold illegally. Blame the idiot that owned the snake and let it go. Don't blame the snake....
Now with all this talk about killing it. Being this is CA and this snake is a minority, wouldn't CA consider this as a hate crime.
No, it's white.
Somewhere there is a list of stupid things one should never do and I bet cornering a cobra is somewhere near the top of that list.
This is gibberish to exceed the 10 character requirement even though the post exceeded it. Still getting the message is too short alert
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shouldazagged
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Beautiful, fascinating critter. Trying to keep one in a private home is idiocy compounded with illegality.
It's illegal for a number of very sound reasons. Not keeping it securely confined is a big one.
It's illegal for a number of very sound reasons. Not keeping it securely confined is a big one.
I guess the good news is that there weren't two of them...or were there?...[emoji32]
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I don't understand it. How can you put the cuffs on a snake when it ain't got no arms and hands?
Coldshooter
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It's threads like this which remind me why -40 isn't so bad. Natural reptile remover almost environmentally Green or white as the case usually is.
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