I'm not sure how many of you out there have followed Animal Planet's attempt at its own reality tv show, but the few times a certain venomous snake showed up as an obvious venomoid really surprised me. With Jeff and Nigel hosting the show, you can of course bet that there would be many snakes used, some of which being venomous. The few times they used an Egyptian cobra in the "challenge" of the day, it was pretty obvious by the smiley look to the snake that it had its glands removed. Oh well, I guess you can't really blame them for using a venomoid haje, but can you? They also featured a large edb, wagler's viper, and some other Asian arboreal viper which were all either very much in tact or had implants from the surgery. It really sealed my suspicions today during the marathon when the "competent snake handler" nearly let the haje tag him as he tried to grab for its tail while it was fleeing. Anyway, I just wanted to express my slight disappointment in the show producers for deciding to use altered, "made-safe" venomous snakes when the show is supposed to be all about dangerous challenges. Thanks for listening to my rant.

-Chance

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