Posted by:
LarryF
at Thu Oct 1 18:38:15 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by LarryF ]
Several problems come to mind:
1) I don't think there are any purely neurotoxic cobras (even to the extent that mambas are).
2) Some of the closest ones tend to be the most difficult to handle. Forest cobras come to mind, which shouldn't be your fifth cobra, let alone your first.
3) You might die of respiratory failure (or be a vegetable) before the ambulance arrives.
4) Check out the price of spending a few days on a respirator, and antivenom will start to look cheap (antivenom for most cobras is nowhere near the price of antivennom for U.S. snakes, although transportation can get expensive if you don't live in South Florida or somewhere similar).
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What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.
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RE: new toCobra's... correct me if I'm wrong - LarryF, Thu Oct 1 18:38:15 2009