JungleHabitats
New member
This was on the 6'oclock news in NC a pet shop employee in Texas wa bit by a red spitting cobra as he changed the snakes water in his cage, im tryingto find the story on it now to get more details .
-
Responding to email notices you receive.
**************************************************
In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.
-
IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed
=====================
Posted 08/15/2025
=====================
Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.
Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."
Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....
=====================
Addendum: 01/10/2026
=====================
Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....
pet store employee bit by cobra
- Thread starter JungleHabitats
- Start date
robin d.
New member
Posted on Sat, Dec. 20, 2003
Cobra bites pet shop employee
Associated Press
HOUSTON - A pet shop worker is recovering from a cobra bite that occurred while he was cleaning out a display case at the business.
The employee of Pets-APlenty/The Ultimate Reptile Shop was bitten Friday by an African red spitting cobra as he used forceps to clean out the case.
Pet shop owner Eric Haug said the unidentified employee was doing well because the bite was "dry," meaning that the snake did not discharge any venom.
"Normally, they don't bite. They spit venom in the eyes of the attacker or prey," Haug told the Houston Chronicle in Saturday's editions. "He got popped on the finger. We were very lucky here."
The burgundy-scaled snake, native to the savannas and dry grasslands of Africa, was not for sale. It was part of a menagerie of 80 to 90 exotic reptiles and amphibians that customers of the pet shop along Texas 6 can view for a fee.
Haug said the 26-year-old victim had worked at the shop for about a year and kept nonpoisonous reptiles at home.
The victim was taken to an area hospital. An ambulance later transported to the hospital 10 vials of antivenin from the Houston Zoo, which stocks antidotes for each species of poisonous snake it exhibits. Pain in the victim's swollen finger later decreased and the anti-venom did not need to be administered, said Haug.
The attack was the third bite delivered by a poisonous snake this year in Harris County. The other two bites were inflicted by snakes in the wild.
Information from: Houston Chronicle
houston man gets bit by red spitter
Cobra bites pet shop employee
Associated Press
HOUSTON - A pet shop worker is recovering from a cobra bite that occurred while he was cleaning out a display case at the business.
The employee of Pets-APlenty/The Ultimate Reptile Shop was bitten Friday by an African red spitting cobra as he used forceps to clean out the case.
Pet shop owner Eric Haug said the unidentified employee was doing well because the bite was "dry," meaning that the snake did not discharge any venom.
"Normally, they don't bite. They spit venom in the eyes of the attacker or prey," Haug told the Houston Chronicle in Saturday's editions. "He got popped on the finger. We were very lucky here."
The burgundy-scaled snake, native to the savannas and dry grasslands of Africa, was not for sale. It was part of a menagerie of 80 to 90 exotic reptiles and amphibians that customers of the pet shop along Texas 6 can view for a fee.
Haug said the 26-year-old victim had worked at the shop for about a year and kept nonpoisonous reptiles at home.
The victim was taken to an area hospital. An ambulance later transported to the hospital 10 vials of antivenin from the Houston Zoo, which stocks antidotes for each species of poisonous snake it exhibits. Pain in the victim's swollen finger later decreased and the anti-venom did not need to be administered, said Haug.
The attack was the third bite delivered by a poisonous snake this year in Harris County. The other two bites were inflicted by snakes in the wild.
Information from: Houston Chronicle
houston man gets bit by red spitter
JungleHabitats
New member
thanks robin
n.p
n.p