Your Next Door Neighbour Could Be Hiding THIS Deadly Animal At Home!

After a man's tragic death following the purchase of an exotic pet, it raises the question: which exotic animals should people really be allowed to own?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Problems with Pets. I'm talking about the dangerous side here
because I know people like exotic pets, snakes, spiders. I mean,
you can put anything that you want down there. But
I mean there's a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
The other day I went around a guy's house. He's
got scorpions. What he just loves looking at their tails?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Are they like American scorpions, the big ones that you see.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I don't know, they know they weren't huge, But I
was just like man and just if you've had problems
with pets. Thirteen twenty four ten. Mark Anthony Kirby lives
in Prescott and Merseyside over in the UK, and he
had a fear of spiders when he was younger whip
to the point that he actually got over that and

(00:49):
now he's obsessed with them. So he went and bought
a pet spider and brought it home for he and
the family, and he was just in love with this spot.
The unfortunate thing is that when he was transporting it
from the car from the pet store to the house,
had no idea but the spider had actually bit him.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
So he complained his hands.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
So he was so happy. His partner Kaylee Gill, said,
he was so happy. The next few days, he just
thought he came down with COVID or the flu, started
complaining about feeling ill. She said, he was still playing
pranks around the house.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Funny.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
We thought he was okay, but he just went downhill. Unfortunately,
two days later he passed away.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh god, he.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Didn't identify that the US the venomous spider that he
bought as a pet had bitten him, and for two
days that venom was going through his system and he
passed away.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Can I just throw it out there? I reckon, if
you buy something that could bite you or kill you
like that as a pet, you're an idiot. Do you
know they have in the states in the US fits
I saw a doco on this. You were allowed to
keep pet tigers. But it's something like a one hundred
and eighty people are killed every year by their pet
tigers because they had it as a baby cat and

(02:06):
then it grows up and they can't believe it's got
me round the throat.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well, what snakes? Problems with pets that ain't twenty four ten?
Snakes are the other one, because I think snakes can
get out sometimes, and this is the thing. They like
to constrict around anything that's near them. It's just I
don't know. Okay, it's great to have an Okay, you're
feeding in a mouse.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
That's really I'm around to see. I went to the
pet shop in Terry Hills a while ago to get
some fish fits and they had a reptile area, so
they had turtles and snakes. But what was interesting was
I had no idea the baby snakes. So I'm talking
a snake that's about twenty centimeters long and really thin.
They were about five hundred dollars each. The big snakes

(02:51):
were about three hundred dollars. And I said, why the
smaller ones cheaper than the big ones? And they said, oh,
because if they're smaller, you can train them to be
I said, what, so you're selling that one? That's not
okuy's going to get that?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Sean in Silverdale. You're a snake catcher. Do they make
good pets?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Sean, yeah, money guys, Yeah, absolutely they do. I mean
it's it's like anything. You know. Some people are in
the cats, some people in the dogs, some people are
in the reptiles or birds. Right, So, and they are
writing one respect where you can kind of train them.
It's just the more you handle the snake, the more
comfortable to lose around whoever it's around. Right, Okay, So,

(03:34):
although they're still essentially a wild creature and it's hard
to gauge like their attitude without experience, and as far
as getting out, I mean, that does happen. I'm coming
across escape pets all the time. So you know, people
have barbecues or whatever, and they go and they get
on the cans or whatever and they go check out

(03:55):
me snake, you know, like the one that's in the enclosure,
and then eventually what happens is they don't lock it
up properly.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
No snakes. I've always said that, sure don't snake and
can exotic other exotic pits.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I saw a guy with scorpions. Yeah that I what
else have you seen that people have his pits?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Oh? Mate, you know there's spiders, there's scorpions, there's you know,
I've seen stuff. There's some illegal stuff out here obviously,
like hedgehogs and stuff like that. It's I mean, they're
exotic rot so obviously they get sees and stuff like that.
But they're definitely crocodiles, and it's just all sorts of

(04:42):
want a crocodile in their back yard.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
If we get back to the idea of having a
snake as a pet, what do you do with a
snake when you go I'm going to go play with
a snake. Besides feeding the snake, what else do you
do with it?

Speaker 1 (04:53):
I mean, it's it's quite a calming thing here. I
mean people sleep with it in the landerhum and stuff
like that, and it's just an interesting topic gospos that
a lot of people don't have. There's a big fear
obviously out there of snakes.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Can outside of outside of a python, Like if you've
got a diamondback, it's quite a friendly snake. Can you
have a red belly black snake or a king brown?

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah? Absolutely, it's just a different class of license. So
obviously they have to be in a locker room with
obviously first day protocols and things like that, but you
can you can step it up to have you know,
the top five in the world. If that's here and
we get on the cans, you know, I get into
the can to get the type had it all. Thank you?

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