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Not my photo but found it on another site. It's clearly an accident waiting to happen. Good educational photo of what not to do.. The gloves are on because the Puff Adders cage was being cleaned, not as protection. They would not stop the fangs anyway.

Al

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
(Henry Ford)

I submit the follwing pics, as wel,l to this...a gaboon and spitting cobra.

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Well... That's a known method to be bitten, "freehandling" My photo demonstrates a very bad application of a way to hold a viper safely, if you must hold one.

Al
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
(Henry Ford)

I'm just not to keen on holding one. I know a case may/will arise where that is necessary, but holding just to be holding is not something I even consider. Relying on puncture resistant gloves or the method in your pic frightens me to know that someone like that could be a neighbor...and poor handling methods and carelessness risks the snake getting lose around my family. Not cool.

This is also a big reason I am in favor of having a mentor...a good one.

One thing I've been wondering... I see a lot of photos of people holding venomous snakes behind the head like that to immobilize them. I've always wondered how you would release the snake from that position without getting tagged. I'm guessing that the snake is going to be pretty upset about the whole thing, I'd I'd think it would strike the instant it got the chance. Also, I'm certainly no expert, but is that pic really a gabby? The head looks different from most pics I've seen, which always show them with those huge heads and oversized venom glands. Maybe I've just seen them from a different angle, but that pic looks like a small python to me... Thanks.

I submit the follwing pics, as well, to this...a gaboon and spitting cobra.

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Careless handling from a person who obviously has no business owning hot stuff. Although heavy gloves are certainly acceptable in certain applications, not the way that this person was so callously handling these snakes...ridiculous. And people oftentimes get upset at me when I say "99.99% of people wishing to own a venomous reptiles, shouldn't"...go figure.

>>Not my photo but found it on another site. It's clearly an accident waiting to happen. Good educational photo of what not to do.. The gloves are on because the Puff Adders cage was being cleaned, not as protection. They would not stop the fangs anyway.
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>>Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
>>(Henry Ford)
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Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, IL

and some of them post public plugs for those who free-hand King Cobras, while admonishing others for doing the same thing. LOL
Where are all of these mentors that people speak so highly of???
Shane
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