What type of snake ?

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Those things are nothing.

2 years back on my gr 8 camp there was a cape cobra on the fence near our housing and it stared me down. At least 3.5-4ft up against the fence. We made sure everything was closed double tight thay night! Almost crapped my pants! All the nope ropes here in Africa
 

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Right....thankfully we don't have any cobras,boomslangs and gaboon vipers to worry about here.
 

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Or mambas

On the farms I have to keep an eye out for puff adders especially
 

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Geez how did that happen ? What was the recovery like ?
It was years ago when I was a kid and we were camping up in the Pocono Mountains....damned thing jumped out at me as I was picking up a rock.
The copperhead's venom is not among the most potent of the vipers but I was sent to the hospital where I spent a few weeks and even had a visit from a reptile guy from the Philadelphia Zoo.
 
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It was years ago when I was a kid and we were camping up in the Pocono Mountains....damned thing jumped out at me as I was picking up a rock.
The copperhead's venom is not among the most potent of the vipers but I was sent to the hospital where I spent a few weeks and even had a visit from a reptile guy from the Philadelphia Zoo.
I used to keep boa's and pythons when i was a kid, got bit in the face and hands a few times but for some reason as i got older i developed a fear of them.

Wow a few weeks ? Why so long is that the normal time frame ?did it leave permanent damage ?
 

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I used to keep boa's and pythons when i was a kid, got bit in the face and hands a few times but for some reason as i got older i developed a fear of them.

Wow a few weeks ? Why so long is that the normal time frame ?did it leave permanent damage ?
I have never kept any exotic snakes,only the little ones that we used to find in backyards.I find snakes to be pretty boring as pets but if I were to get an exotic it would be an Emerald tree python or boa.I get the both of them mixed up but I love the way that they coil themselve on a tree branch.
The bite did a bit of damage to my hand and required surgery....big snake,small hand lol.
 
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I have never kept any exotic snakes,only the little ones that we used to find in backyards.I find snakes to be pretty boring as pets but if I were to get an exotic it would be an Emerald tree python or boa.I get the both of them mixed up but I love the way that they coil themselve on a tree branch.
The bite did a bit of damage to my hand and required surgery....big snake,small hand lol.
Yeah i was just into all sorts of stuff snakes, lizards, fish, birds blah blah.

Son wants a snake and its absolutely not happening
 

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Yeah i was just into all sorts of stuff snakes, lizards, fish, birds blah blah.

Son wants a snake and its absolutely not happening
Interesting how you've developed a fear of snakes as you got older.I was into different pets when I was younger too and I like certain types of lizards but the wife is terrified of all of them so I'm in no real rush to have any right now.
 
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