A venomous West African banded cobra is missing in a Texas neighborhood

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Wildlife experts are setting out traps and searching a Grand Prairie, Texas, neighborhood for a large, venomous West African banded cobra that's been missing since Tuesday evening

"We don't know if the snake is long gone, or if the snake is still in the house, but we have not been able to locate it," Grand Prairie Police Public Information Officer Mark Beseda told CNN.Grand Prairie is a city of about 200,000 people between Dallas and Fort Worth.Snake venom can now be made in a lab and that could save many livesThe owner of the 6-foot-long cobra realized the snake had escaped its enclosure at about 5 p.m.

Police said the owner had a permit to own the snake from the State of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.CNN was not able to contact the snake's owner, but he told CNN affiliate KTVT that he believed the snake was dead."I wanted my community to feel safe. And yeah, it's required. I'm required as a permitted citizen to call my community if somethings, a mishap," owner Tre Mat told KTVT.

 

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Texas is America’s Australia.

Oh hell no!! I would be packing up the U-Haul tonight !! These type of snakes should not be allowed to be privately owned in a residence

If you find him, give him directions to the governor’s house. 😂😂😂

First a tiger... Now this SMH

Is it legal in Texas to carry concealed West African banded cobras without a license?

Texas, the Florida of the west.

Also known as Ted Cruz?

This mf needs dome jail time!

FloridaMan Winning

Well I'll be damned. There's an immigration problem that worries me.

I'm not a snake expert but I'll take a wild stab to assume this animal is not indigenous to the area? If so, I apologize. If not, people who take on exotic animals as pets expose them to be not only abused in confinement but at risk of being shot or killed.

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