Snakes Incorporated

[Snakes Incorporated]

No worries I have kids and I have had debates were I’ve been told that keeping venomous is like keeping a loaded gun in the house.

Whichever the choice both are accidence waiting to happen in some way. What I was talking about in my previous correspondence was that no one has ever been mistakably bit by some one else’s venomous escapee.

[ReptileMan27]

No worries I have kids and I have had debates were I’ve been told that keeping venomous is like keeping a loaded gun in the house.

Whichever the choice both are accidence waiting to happen in some way. What I was talking about in my previous correspondence was that no one has ever been mistakably bit by some one else’s venomous escapee.

In all honesty, its safer to keep a loaded gun in your house because if you shoot yourself etc.., EMTs know how to treat a gun shot but if you get bitten by a hot snake from asia or somewhere, they arent going to have clue how to treat you or just have antivenom lying around. Your as good as dead.

[Snakes Incorporated]

Agreed it would be medically better to get an unplanned gunshot wound than to get a venomous bite. That counts for indigenous as well as exotics in this country.

Doctors are trained to fix things like trauma but toxic substance intake especially animal related is a specialized field.

[daniel]

i dont have any problem with keeping hots i have touched one *more like ran from one* and would love to be traned in the handling of hots so i can maybe have a hot maybe
dan

[ReptileMan27]

You can get all the training in the world and it doesent mean you wont get bitten . Almost all the experts have been bitten atleast once, most more then once. A freind of mine has been keeping and breeding pretty much any herp you can think of for over 50 years. At one time he was one of the only breeders of black mambas in the USA, he has sinced gotten rid of most of his collection because of laws, age etc..  but he has been working with these animals for over 50 years and has been bitten more then once, lucky to be alive. I heard this saying and I believe it to be true, its not a matter of if you will get bitten but a matter of when.

[Snakes Incorporated]

ReptileMan27 is right. 

My personal philosophy is that those who keep venomous are one of two. Those that have been bit and those that will be bit.

The only difference between the two is time.   

[Cobraman]

MAN, this is one HOT topic...

 And if you are stupid enough to let it bit you..or someone else.. you should be fined!!! And smacked up-side your head!!!

I've worked with venomous snakes over 17 years, and have been bitten more times than worth mentioning, but I would not consider myself a "stupid" person. My best friend was VERY smart, and one of the safest people I have met around hots, yet he died from a cobra bite. Accidents do happen to smart people as well. Just my two cents

[ReptileMan27]

MAN, this is one HOT topic...

 And if you are stupid enough to let it bit you..or someone else.. you should be fined!!! And smacked up-side your head!!!

I've worked with venomous snakes over 17 years, and have been bitten more times than worth mentioning, but I would not consider myself a "stupid" person. My best friend was VERY smart, and one of the safest people I have met around hots, yet he died from a cobra bite. Accidents do happen to smart people as well. Just my two cents

I agree, no one lets a hot bite them and if it does happen, yes it was a mistake by the handler but doesent mean their stupid.

[Snakes Incorporated]

To put the cat among the pigeons let me put my 5 cents in.
I was bit because I got a little too complacent so yea, I do not mind if people call it being stupid because in my opinion it was dang stupid no matter that I have more the 20 years experience.

But it is good to have survived it and that is a lot more than the dead can say.  

[Cobraman]

To put the cat among the pigeons let me put my 5 cents in.
I was bit because I got a little too complacent so yea, I do not mind if people call it being stupid because in my opinion it was dang stupid no matter that I have more the 20 years experience.

But it is good to have survived it and that is a lot more than the dead can say.  

I also don't mind if someone wants to call me stupid for my mistakes. Fortunately I'm smart enough to know that I'm NOT stupid just because someone else thinks so.