I rang Neil Mitchell this morning on 3AW and mentioned it was illegal to kill native wildlife and he laughed saying he’d do the same thing. I then told him we should all have an obligation to protect native wildlife and shouldn’t be killing them…..he changed his tune very slightly and said he wasn’t promoting the killing - pffft. The beauty about this mornings radio show was he admitted the station was being inundated with calls from people who said it was wrong to kill them. He said “but how else are you able to have the snake identified if you don’t kill it and bring it to the hospital” to which I mentioned SVDK’s being at all of the hospitals and briefly how they work.
I find it amazing (and I’ve written a letter to the editor for tomorrow Herald Sun – whether it gets print tomorrow or Monday, or at all, will have to be seen) that we live in a country with the top 10 most venomous snakes in the world, practically living on most of our doorsteps, and the vast majority of people out there do not have A SINGLE CLUE on how to react or treat bites when confronted with them. It’s TOTALLY BEWILDERING!! It’s seriously head in the sand stuff!