you're bonkers.
Wild caught cobras can be a real handful, but usually they settle down quite well. The only unpredictable one's I have ever worked with are Forest Cobras and Cape Cobras.beautiful cobra!!! since hots are illegal in TN ive um..."never kept any"... but i HEAR some of them can be a handful!
thats true...i would feel bad too. but if snakes are PROPERLY housed...then they have about as much chance of escaping and ending up in your neighbors closet and the octopus.YOUR'E NUTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beautiful critters. The only thing that has ever kept me from keeping hot snakes is their ability to escape. I would never forgive myself if anyone around me got bit, and heaven forbid, died.
In the past I have kept some deadly critters. I used to have a stonefish and blue ring octopus. The stonefish grew to be around a foot. They are the deadliest fish in the world. And I actually bred the blue ring octopus. I ended up destroying around 100 of their babies after they were a few weeks old, because I couldn't keep them all and didn't want the responsibility of giving them to other people.
The big difference here is if those critters escaped, they died. They weren't waiting for your neighbor to to look in their closet for something. LOL
Take care,
Tom
i can imagine! my "friend" had a timber rattler and a copperhead. both WC here in tennessee. the coperhead wasnt that bad...but that timber rat. was one of the meanest snakes ive ever seen.Wild caught cobras can be a real handful, but usually they settle down quite well. The only unpredictable one's I have ever worked with are Forest Cobras and Cape Cobras.
Lucky guy!! I would love to catch a Rattlesnake. Ask your "friend" what Timbers are like in generali can imagine! my "friend" had a timber rattler and a copperhead. both WC here in tennessee. the coperhead wasnt that bad...but that timber rat. was one of the meanest snakes ive ever seen.
Housing is a number one priority. Nothing but 100% secure is good enoughBeautiful critters. The only thing that has ever kept me from keeping hot snakes is their ability to escape. I would never forgive myself if anyone around me got bit, and heaven forbid, died.
Lekker Rinkhals !
My boet and me used to catch these back in Transvaal in the late 70's when we were about 13 years old.
Great days !