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Having read this, I am horrified that some one can claim here in Australia there is a law that makes it illegal to display venomous snakes, unless they are venomoids, this is not the case. In Australia it is a violation of he Veterinary Practices Act to perform an operation that has no benefit to the animal (hence tail docking in dogs is banned). We have never needed such animals and have never had a bite in a display or within our own collection which includes Pseudonaja textilis, Oxyuranus, and many other native Australian venomous snakes.
Education about our venomous animals must be done safely and by people who are competent to do so, but this does not mean we need to alter the animals, just the way we do things.
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