(credit: LA Co. Dept. Of Animal Care)
Posted on 09/03/2014 12:58:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
THOUSAND OAKS (CBSLA.com) — A poisonous albino monocled cobra was loose in Thousand Oaks after it bit a dog Wednesday morning, officials said.
The attack happened late Monday afternoon in the backyard of a home in the 1300 block of Rancho Lane.
The dog was taken to a veterinarian and its condition was unknown.
The cobra, which was photographed by the dog’s owner, is venomous and very dangerous, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control.
State Fish and Wildlife and the LA animal services responded to the area in an effort to find the snake.
Residents were advised to keep their pets and small children indoors.
If anyone sees the snake, immediately call 911 or (818) 991-0071.
Owner should be flogged.
20 gauge with number 7 shot should work just fine.
What color was the dog...This could potentially involve the DOJ, if the dog was black, it is after all an election year.
The cops should look for any residents with 75% of their body covered in tattoes. They would find the owner quickly.
What kind of moron keeps a cobra as a pet?
Well, a white snake wearing a monocle should be easy to identify from any other snake......it should be easy to find.
Especially one with only one eye.....
The only kind of Cobra there should be in California is a Ford. Someone in the neighborhood has an illegal and rare snake collection, minus one!
Especially from just beyond striking distance.
From Wikipedea:
The major toxic components in cobra venoms are postsynaptic neurotoxins, which block the nerve transmission by binding specifically to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, leading to flaccid paralysis and even death by respiratory failure.
The monocled cobra causes the highest fatality due to snake venom poisoning in Thailand. Envenomation usually presents predominantly with extensive local necrosis and systemic manifestations to a lesser degree. Drowsiness, neurological and neuromuscular symptoms will usually manifest earliest; hypotension, flushing of the face, warm skin, and pain around bite site typically manifest within one to four hours following the bite; paralysis, ventilatory failure or death could ensue rapidly, possibly as early as 60 minutes in very severe cases of envenomation. However, the presence of fang marks does not always imply that envenomation actually occurred.
Easy to catch - just sneak up on the side without the monocle...
Obviously "Stupid" has no set boundaries nor does ones lacking of common sense. This one should get the owner who will likely never man up someone serious pokey time. But then again I'm sure there are apologist who will tell us about the victim Cobra and victim owner who's beloved deadly snake is missing.
“Albino Cobra” would be a great name for a rock band.
< / Dave Barry >
Not so! Al Sharpton would never approve of that racist name!
Point of order, snakes are not poisonous, they are venomous. Poison you ingest, venom is injected.
Regardless, the shotgun idea would solve the problem.
If someone had enough time to take a picture then they had enough time to chop its head off.
Does this mean heavy smokers are in greater danger due to heavy nicotine load and bad lungs?
Thinking back to the time I took off the head of a rattler by using a sod cutter...I didn’t quite get it on the neck.
It was more like 1/3 the way down the body.
It was a mite quicker than I thought it would be.
Chopping a cobra?
No way.
The owner was rushing his dog to the vet, the pic was for the vet’s diagnosis.
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