We had a long holiday weekend in Thailand and with the neighbourhood much quieter than usual
Naja kaouthia were coming out in the open. I received two calls in two days asking me to remove a cobra from the house. I am always happy to remove cobras from people's houses, because it keeps people and snakes from being injured/killed.
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The first one was behind a house on some rather rough concrete, which made pinning difficult, because the snake had a lot of traction. I had to 'tail' it a couple of times to keep it from getting away.
The second one was in a yard under a large palm leaf. After I removed the palm leaf, it was just a simple pin and grab. The grab was not exactly the greatest, so I had to readjust it before the 300m walk home.
I had a couple close calls last month that shook my confidence. A cobra was able to get out of being pinned while my hand was just about to make the grab and the other was a cobra in the crawl space above my kitchen that came face to face with me; the last thing that I expected when I have never seen a
Naja kaouthia off the ground. This weekend was good for boosting my confidence to where it should be.
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I just arranged for these two snakes pictured to be display animals, so they will be much safer than in my area, which is experiencing a boom in human development.
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Cheers,
Michael
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