Legion, do you have one of these in your collection?

[Kev]

I already told him it was Mark O' Shea He is very respected in the reptile community, though him telling people his method is the only way is dumb, seeing as how he has been bitten several times. There is a vid on youtube of O 'Shea almost getting whacked by a zebra cobra, a fairly new identified species.

I must admit I find the fact that you socialise within the reptile community quite endearing. It's nice to have a quirky slightly eccentric interest I think.

I know you find it amusing and rather odd, but we all have different interests. Snakes are mine; seeing how much semen you can't drink in one night is yours

Seriously Bilb's, alot of diseases are going to be cured once the unlock all the secrets of venom. Some south american vipers venom is already being used in cancer patients; hemophiliacs are starting to be helped with extracts from snakes such as the tiger snake, and Parkinson's will be cured through the use of venoms from snakes such as the Stokes, beaked sea snake, kraits. So those animals everyone hates may one day benefit them.



SOAPBOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nah as I said I find it endearing, it's nice to have a slightly wacky interest.

I used to have a Garter snake myself when I was growing up. Beautiful snake, black with a red, white and yellow racing stripes if I remember correctly.

I called him Streak and he lived on earthworms and the very occaisional guppy fish.

Looked very much like this




Completely harmless of course, if you had him you'd probably feed him to one of your proper snakes