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Venom in Vegas

Lynnea

Lynnea

That's "lin-NAY-ah"
Did anyone else watch this? I enjoyed it! It was interesting to learn about the different species. I fell in love with Gaboons because of their beautiful geometric patterns and colors (although I would never own anything venomous--I also love cobras)! I also found it funny that the worst bite he got was from a green tree python, since they are so notorious for being nippy.
 
I watched it! I thought it was really interesting even while minorly worrying about all the different snake species together lol. I do like that guys show that I can't remember the name of right now. I just sat around and named the snake species that I recognized
 
I watched it, it was interesting but I really didn't get how being in a box with a bunch of snakes was going to raise awareness for snakes and snake bit victims. I saw it more as an advertising stunt or something like that.
 
Lynnea said:
I was wondering that, too. I don't think you could include the spitting cobra--definitely not! I didn't care that it was a stunt, I just enjoyed seeing all the different snakes.
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That's what I found interesting seeing all the different snakes and I've always loved Gaboons.
 
Personally, I thought it was a stupid stunt. But I did enjoy sitting there and ID'ing everything as he pulled it out of the bag! (I muted it when they brought in new snakes so he couldn't spoil my fun). I'm proud to say I only missed 2 or 3 out of the 100! :)
 
RobbiesCornField said:
Personally, I thought it was a stupid stunt. But I did enjoy sitting there and ID'ing everything as he pulled it out of the bag! (I muted it when they brought in new snakes so he couldn't spoil my fun). I'm proud to say I only missed 2 or 3 out of the 100! :)
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Man, that's great! I'm pretty ignorant, I couldn't ID that many. Duh. Hey, I'm learning, right? lol
 
There were some really beautiful snakes in there! I kept laughing at the "tree of death," the poor little ficus tree did not know what hit it.

I am amazed at the beauty of some of the hots. No way I would ever own any, but they are so very stunning.
 
One of the Board Members of the SWHS, Southwestern Herpetologists Society, knows the guy who set up the snakes. He, the board member, spoke with that guy, he told me his name but I've forgotten it, Dave mabye, and he, Dave maybe, said they were all voids.

Now the guy who's in the show, who's name I also can't remember, I am rather bad with names, wanted to use one of my False Water Cobras for a milking show he was doing. He PROMISED me that if I let him put one of my big girls under using a "new" anesthesia that he had access to, she would fully recover within 12 to 15 minutes and he had never had a problem using it.

This struck me as odd and hard to believe since I had, just the week before, been talking to a Veterinarian just the week before who said that there was a new anesthesia coming out of Europe that while very good and much easier on snakes than those used in the past, was still occasionally fatal.

Valuing my snake more than his word, which in the world of actual keepers is not given much credence, I declined his offer to use my animal even though he offered to give me "full credit on the show" for supplying her.
 
I couldn't watch it especially since I kept picturing that gorgous corn getting eaten by something bigger and badder than it.
 
airenlow said:
He milked multiple snakes on the show. How do you go about milking a venomoid?
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Did he milk the ones loose with him or were they brought in from somewhere else?

I did not see the show and am basing what I'm telling you on what I've been told by someone who not only has no reason to lie, but has always been truthful to me in the past.

The guy in the show flat out lied to me, directly to me, when he wanted to put one of my snakes in harms way.
 
From what was shown on TV, he took animals from the room and milked them. He then tested the venom on his own blood to show how the different toxins work. It seemed pretty legit...
 
airenlow said:
From what was shown on TV, he took animals from the room and milked them. He then tested the venom on his own blood to show how the different toxins work. It seemed pretty legit...
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Then it is possible I was misinformed.

However, the guy still lied to me directly which, in my book, makes him a bit of a turd and not just a turd, but a not trust-worthy turd.
 
I agree with Robbie! Just watched it, and was a little put off by the stunt itself. I had a blast trying to I.D the different species, but other than that, I found it a little repulsive. It seemed a little too exploitative to me, and it just seemed like a needless stunt. I thought he handled the snakes a little too rough, and it was just alarming to me that so many were collected from the wild to be a part of this.

As for the snakes being void of venom glands... perhaps some were, but he did extract venom from a few, so unless they switched snakes over, it seemed fairly legit.
 
I didn't watch it... it seemed banal and attention-seeking and I don't care for the host anyways (HURRRR I JUMP FROM PLANES AND COLLECT VENOMMMM! I'M EXTREMEEEEE!!!) but I also heard somewhere, I think from the AHA? that they were voids. Don't quote me on that though.
 
I watched it too, and right from the beginning I got a bad vibe from the guy when he pulled the "I just got bit!" stunt. I would have beat the crap out of him for doing such a childish thing, especially in a situation like that.

To me, it seems like this might actually give snakes bad publicity, because how many times they struck. It seemed like a needless aggravation to put that many snakes from different places in the same room, when they have such a wide range of climates and humidities. I kept waiting for snakes to be killed by other snakes, or be stepped on, and so on. Just... didn't really like it.

I did like some of the information, though. And loved to see the different species. Corn snakes were in there a lot, but only got mentioned once or twice. That made me kind of grumble. Did I see a BRB in there too?

All in all, I think I could've spent my two hours much better.
 
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