I saw on the Jeff Corwin Experience where these "snake charmers" in India would capture Cobras by the hundreds and keep them in small clay containers. They would cut the fangs out of thier mouths so they would be "safer" but he said unfortunately all the snakes die of either dehydration or infection. He showed one cobra that had its fangs removed and it had an abcess on top of its head from an infection. I just say that removing the fangs removes the means in which they eat. And infection seems highly probable.