Do some of you really have Cobra's

That would be awesome!!!

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Originally Posted by PythonWallace

I'm glad I finished my lunch before I found those pics. :O

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I'm having lunch now! No problem. :P Thats some nasty bites.

Those pics were amazing! I mean, I feel sorry for those that were bitten, but... damn.. I'm amazed at the power that's packed behind those snakes venom. Does the venom really eat the skin away like that? or did the doc's have to peel all 3 major layers of skin off to preserve the area around it?

Those pictures are the result of a Cytotoxic (cell destroying) envenomation.
Cobras are generally neurotoxic (Nerve destroying).

I doubt those wounds were from a cobra.
Here is a pic of a Cape Cobra. One of these chaps put me on life support for seven days some time back.
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q.../NajaNivea.jpg
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/DSC02100.jpg

Woo wee. Hots are some of the prettiest snakes ever. I just love their scales, all ridge and what not, with crazy horns or eyelashes. Love EM!

There are not mainy cobra species that have a predominate amount of Cyto-toxin in there venom as cobra are generally Nero-toxic (nerve destroying).
Cyto-toxic (cell destroying) is mainly found in vipers and Adders while Nero-toxin is mainly found in cobra (Elapidae).


http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...5-11-11006.jpg

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Originally Posted by wildlifewarrior

I believe anti venom, is too expensive for people to just stock all the time, it also doesn't have a long shelf life if my memory serves me correct. The hospitals would stock it if it were in a hot snake hot spot. Like texas, FL, CA the hospitals often stock viper antivenom because the chances of someone comming into contact with a hot even in the wild is high on its own.

~mike

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that some states do actually require the owners of hots to keep their own supply of anti-venom as part of regulation. I can't remember where I read it, but I'm positive that I did.

It being quite expensive would bethe exact fuel for that, hospitals (well in the Canadian system where they aren't allowed to generate a profit) don't have a lot of 'slush funds' to operate off - sorry if this sounds harsh, but if you can't afford the anti venom on your own knowing you're keeping animals that might cause you to need it... Well, you shouldn't have them then.

Precisely because it is expensive... Were I to own any hots I would insist on keeping my own supply at all times.