Don't try this at home

I've never seen that method used by snake removal professionals. They always use a grabbing stick. This guy dramatically staged it this way for the YouTube video since it's not a poisonous snake.
 
OldFeller said:
I've never seen that method used by snake removal professionals. They always use a grabbing stick. This guy dramatically staged it this way for the YouTube video since it's not a poisonous snake.
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That snake looks too big, too heavy and too strong for a typical snake stick. A snake wrangler has got to get control of that big mouth immediately, or else the snake will clap down on a body part, which will be very painful. After that comes getting coiled up and squished to death.
I once held a 9 ft. Boa constrictor, he was very docile, luckily for me. I could feel the strength in his body, as he gently coiled around mine. If he wasn't in a good mood, I would have been in serious trouble.
 
Nathan said:
That snake looks too big, too heavy and too strong for a typical snake stick. A snake wrangler has got to get control of that big mouth immediately, or else the snake will clap down on a body part, which will be very painful. After that comes getting coiled up and squished to death.
I once held a 9 ft. Boa constrictor, he was very docile, luckily for me. I could feel the strength in his body, as he gently coiled around mine. If he wasn't in a good mood, I would have been in serious trouble.
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There is some kind of stick or net on the ground. So this thing took off on him in a hurry. I don't know how agitated it got from whatever he tried before the video shows.
 
Glad we only have rat & garter snakes. Only twice have we had a little garter snake get into the house. My little black cat hunted them both down. One went to meet his maker & the other one I was able to rescue from him & turn him loose outside.
 
I have a wooden four-foot-long metal tipped weed puller that I use as well as a machete to find and kill snakes. I have never killed a snake like that one but many snakes where I live.
 
I have caught Pythons during the hunt. You have to hold their mouth shut, which is what the dude us trying to do. If you can hold their mouth shut, they won’t constrict.
 
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@Nathan, one night in the mid 80's in dispatch we received a call that a man found a cobra in his garage & needed help. We sent deputies out & thought in the beginning that no way it was a cobra in SW Ohio. Our first deputy arrived & when he entered the garage he was greeted by a 6' cobra who was more than willing to display his hood to all there.

We had an emergency contact for a person who worked at the local natural history museum who responed & took the snake with him. We never found out who it belonged too, but surmise it was someone in the apartment complex. At that time, it wasn't illegal to own exotic animals/reptiles.

@Born_To_Lose, I don't plan on hunting pythons, but that could be useful information. After the cobra incident, I not surprised by too much any more.
 
Lilac said:
@Nathan, one night in the mid 80's in dispatch we received a call that a man found a cobra in his garage & needed help. We sent deputies out & thought in the beginning that no way it was a cobra in SW Ohio. Our first deputy arrived & when he entered the garage he was greeted by a 6' cobra who was more than willing to display his hood to all there.

We had an emergency contact for a person who worked at the local natural history museum who responed & took the snake with him. We never found out who it belonged too, but surmise it was someone in the apartment complex. At that time, it wasn't illegal to own exotic animals/reptiles.

@Born_To_Lose, I don't plan on hunting pythons, but that could be useful information. After the cobra incident, I not surprised by too much any more.
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Keep in mind that even spitting cobras have hoods. So even though you see a hood doesn’t mean you can get closer to them. Spitting cobras can spit their venom up to about 8 feet and if it gets in your mouth or eyes, you could be a dead man.
 
I have a friend that I haven’t spoke to for maybe close to a year now that collects and milks vipers for their venom. Every fall, he takes a trip to Africa for 2 weeks to try his luck at capturing and milking some of their poisonous snakes. He makes (or did) a good living off of selling venom. Africa has some of the most venomous snakes in the world.

I know at one time, he was getting $2000 for 1 gram of King Cobra venom.
 

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