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Originally Posted by TrueBlue

Miss Croft, i dont know where you got the info that by tailing an elapid it cant stike at you,??????, cause its a complete load of rubbish. They can strike at you from there, or crawl up their body to grab you no worries, and in very little time.

Ive been silly enough to free handle elapids in my younger days, both taipans, copperheads, tigers, collets, spotted blacks, adders, muglas, rbb, etc. I even raised an eastern brown snake that you could do absolutely anything with, a member of this site ended up with it and used to do the same, ah Brian. lol.
Even had a couple of free handlable roughies. And yes i trusted alot of them more than most pythons.
Ive had tigers and copperheads from the same clutches that id bred and raised, where some you could do anything with yet others you could hardly walk past their tank with out them having a go.
The trick is to know your animals well enough, but in saying that as i said it was in my young silly days, i donot do it any more, as sooner or later something is bound to happen, law of averages.

Obviously she hasn't heard some of the snake catching stories where a brown has gone over the shoulder of the snakeman catching it