Posted on 09/04/2014 7:02:18 AM PDT by Pelham
The search for a rare white snake slithering through Thousand Oaks continued Wednesday, two days after the venomous and potentially lethal reptile bit a dog.
Animal control officers spent the morning and late afternoon hunting for the monocled albino cobra, which was last seen in a yard in the 1300 block of Rancho Lane in the southern Ventura County suburb.
“It’s a little unnerving,” said Thousand Oaks resident Arianne Deeder, 39, who lives in the neighborhood. “I’m keeping an eye out.”
Deeder has chickens in a back yard coup and fish in a pond, along with a dog and a cat. She said she kept the animals safe by locking the coup, putting a fence over the pond and keeping her dog and cat indoors.
On Wednesday evening, seven animal control officers were walking through the neighborhood, searching horse stalls and yards for the elusive white snake.
An animal control officer said authorities believe the cobra was likely smuggled into the country and belongs to a resident of the street who has been known to keep exotic animals, like snakes, birds and turtles, in a rented house. The man was not at his home, they said.
News of the cobra quickly circulated on social media and was trending on Twitter, spawning parody accounts like @albinomonocledcobra and @toakscobra.
Ian Recchio, curator of reptiles and amphibians at the Los Angeles Zoo, said that although monocled cobras possess toxic venom, and their bites are potentially fatal, the snake would likely try to stay hidden.
“They are shy like most cobras,” Recchio said. “Their first line of defense is trying to crawl away.”
It will spread its hood in a defensive position if provoked, Recchio said. The reptiles feed on small rodents, fish and other snakes.
Still, authorities warned residents that monocled cobras will
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Most rattlesnakes have are hemotoxic, except for the Mohave Green, which is neurotoxic.
Considered the worlds most racist snake. A few milligrams of it’s hate is enough to disrespect 1000 people.
you win
And I thought a coup was a two door car.
Really though who in the world thinks
keeping a Cobra for a pet is a good idea.
Then throwing the poor thing away and terrorizing
a town.
Mostly true, except for the Mojave Green Rattlesnake, a truly nasty, dangerously neurotoxic critter. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus
“Most rattlesnakes have are hemotoxic, except for the Mohave Green, which is neurotoxic.”
Congrats, you beat me to it. Surprising the variety of non-political knowledge three is here on FR.
LOL! A 2-door car is a coupe.
The Southern Pacific Rattlesnake is another viper you want to avoid; venom is similar to the Mojave Green. I’ve watched a few episodes of “Venom ER” where individuals bitten by a Southern Pacific rattler were treated; the amount of anti-venom required is often much, much higher than the dosage for other snake bites.
“The King’s Ankus” comes to mind.
Do snakes crawl, as the author says or do they slither?
Did it get the monocle from Mr. Peanut?
Bad snake. Bad death. Glad the dog lived. If you are fully envemonated by an egyptian monocled cobra, you are done. Even if you get anti-venin, you’ll be horribly scarred.
You get into your car and reach for the seatbelt. It feels a little different but you are in a hurry. You hear the familiar click and then you hear something new.
A HISS.....
Didn’t know those existed. Looks like it would make a lovely pet!
IF THE SNAKE ENDS UP ON A GOLF COURSE, WE MAY END UP WITH A COUP...
So, some good COULD come out of this, after all.
the snake is white, obviously a racist snake.
A chicken “coup”?
The cobra is a really bad actor.
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