Thread: Cobra vs. Tourists - Phuket

Originally Posted by can123

Well, I am not ignorant and the relatively small price I paid to take four little kids to see these creatures was well spent.

You are ignorant (as proven time after time), and it's fukwits like you that bring in the money that supports these practices. Without ignorant fukwits like you, paying to support these practices, they would cease to exist...

Originally Posted by Latindancer

In 1987 I was sitting on the beach at Pulau Pangkor, a small island on the West coast of Malaysia.

There was another quite small island offshore and after a while I saw a small snake swimming in to the beach I was on. When it got onshore I walked up to it, and although it must have been tired, it put up its hood.

Unusual for it to be swimming in salt water. There must not have been much to eat on the smaller island.

Or IT was running away from being eaten.
Twice in my life I have come across a wild pig swimming from one island to another.

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by can123

They are not exactly the type of animal one hopes to see in the wild.

I've seen loads of them in the wild- cobra, king cobra, krait, pit viper, rat snake, Burmese python (in Mabprachan, Pattaya- Monster!), lots of others. I suppose it helps to live in the wild.

But I don't like animals being teased and goaded for tourist fun. I would have been no fan of bull and badger baiting back in the days either.

Yep, exactly. There aren't many "animal shows" in Thailand that are not cruel, tawdry, and exploitative. With the recent influx of all those "quality tourists", they seem to be on the rise as well.

Originally Posted by sabang

But I don't like animals being teased and goaded for tourist fun. I would have been no fan of bull and badger baiting back in the days either.

I'm pretty tolerant, but this is one of the things that makes me see red.

I hope I am never present when some ignorant Mainland Chinese pokes or goads a caged animal.

If it is able to strike back...and does, I will most likely let out a huge laugh, and if it is not, I will probably poke, goad or hit the offending person, then laugh outrageously and point at him when he reacts.