King Cobra Escapes Its Handler in Florida

[FlowerPower00]

Snakebite Anti-Venom Set To Run Out Next Year | IFLScience

[ByeByeLW]

Originally Posted by Mr_Geek

I for to release Komodo Dragons next.

We already have them down here.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by FlowerPower00

I would imagine, even with anti-venom a bite can make one VERY sick.

Thanks for explaining why someone would own a cobra, with my luck the "baddest" thing I would own is a corn snake...

Depends on the snake.

Many of the highly neurotoxic species with proper treatment and so forth have rather minimal lagging effects.

Species with more tissue damaging venoms like rattlesnakes and most vipers can do considerable damage you just don't reverse.

[tinytrump]

maybe keep the snowbird traffic lower this year??

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by ByeByeLW

We already have them down here.

Not sure where "down here" is but you might be thinking of monitor lizards which do get large...just not THAT large.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by tinytrump

maybe keep the snowbird traffic lower this year??

Yeah, but then you'll have to start paying state income tax like most of the rest of us.

I'd kinda like back the 5k or so that costs me each year....I can put up with a lot of oldsters for that coin.

[AfriqueNY]

Komodo dragons CANNOT be left in Florida suburbs. That would be the next jurrasic park movie......have you seen those things in action?

[Toyman at Jewel Lake]

He should be paying the entire cost of the search for the cobra, and if anyone is injured or killed, he should be charged with assault or murder. What kind of frickin' idiot keeps a cobra as a house pet?

[Woodrow LI]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

Not sure where "down here" is but you might be thinking of monitor lizards which do get large...just not THAT large.

Tegus seem to be running rampent in parts of Florida. Not as big as Komodo Dragon but similar in size with iguanas, but have a nasty disposition and can inflict a serious bite.

Tegu lizards invade South Florida | News - Home

[FlowerPower00]

Originally Posted by AfriqueNY

Komodo dragons CANNOT be left in Florida suburbs. That would be the next jurrasic park movie......have you seen those things in action?

From what I have heard they have zero problem eating hman flesh---we are on the food chain when they are around.