The world's safest venomous reptile shows, reptile education courses, kids parties and snake handling parties.
Now all this is a
bold claim, but also true.
Until 2003, there was
no sure-fire and reliable way to ensure venomous snake shows were safe.
Yes, you could get
barriers to keep people away from the snakes, but of course they could be
breached by jumping over them. Even
locked cages were breachable.
A few years back a
man cut a locked door to enter a reptile house at a Sydney Zoo to steal a dangerously
venomous Jaffa Snake.
In another incident a
member of the public jumped into a pit at John Weigel's Somersby Reptile Park
and started to play with a deadly Tiger Snake.
A few years before
that, David Kerry stole some snakes from an exhibit at Sydney's Taronga Zoo by
going straight through the glass front of the cage!
Noting that Zoos like
Taronga, Melbourne, Weigel's Reptile Park and others all have venomous snakes
on display, either in open "pits", glass fronted cages or similar,
there is always an element of risk to the public.
This has never been
eliminated and that is why there have been serious snake bites and even deaths
from snake bite in the past.
Public reptile
displays with snakes at agricultural shows with venomous snakes are of course
even riskier.
You see there's the
ever-present risk of handler or public getting a venomous snake bite.
Every year in
Australia, numerous snake handlers get serious life threatening or fatal
snakebites.
However in 2003, and
in a world first, Australia's snake expert,
Raymond Hoser, developed a fool-proof way to make venomous snake shows safe.
Via internal
excision, Hoser was able to surgically devenomize snakes, making them totally
and permenantly non-venomous.
All adverse bite
risks were removed with these “venomoid snakes”.
Because, since early
2004, all Snakebusters snakes used in venomous snake shows are devenomized they
are all totally safe.
Now this move to
enhance and guarantee public safety should have been hailed as a breakthrough
by governments and regulatory authorities, but this has not been the case.
Because of the
incestuous relationship between the Victorian Government Wildlife Department
(called Department of Sustainabilty and Environment, or "DSE"), and
other less experienced wildlife demonstrators who lack the expertise to
devenomize snakes, the DSE has sought to outlaw further devenomizing of snakes
and to demonize everything to do with devenomized snakes, solely to shore up
the competitive position of inferior demonstrators.
This scandalous
position has been further pushed to corruptly and illegally allow Melbourne
Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary and various inexperienced reptile demonstrators to
routinely breach the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, by using venomous
snakes for reptile displays, without being devenomized and therefore posing a
risk to both handlers and the public.
There is a huge
public shame file of serious venomous snake bites involving "Zoos
Victoria" and inexperienced reptile demonstrators, in the period since
2005 (when the OH and S Act came into force), for which neither the DSE or
worksafe have prosecuted the offenders.
This corrupt failure
to enforce safety laws against these transgressors continues to put the public
at risk.
In an interview on 30
June 2010, DSE Enforcement head, Glen Sharp stated he was protecting various
others from prosecution for safety related offences they had committed.
Meanwhile, DSE staff
have since 2006 made the totally false claim that the Snakebusters venomoid
snakes have regenerated their venom.
This has been proven
a lie on many occasions and yet they continue to peddle the lie.
In fact, on 1 July
2010, internationally renowned regeneration expert, Dr. Wolfgang Flachenberger
of South Australia, stated that it was totally impossible for venomoid snakes to
regenerate venom glands.
This should have
ended the false claims in their tracks, but unfortunately it hasn't.
However there are a
few facts worth repeating here:
Snakebusters are the
only people in Australia with surgically devenomized snakes used in their
venomous reptile shows, reptile
displays, school reptile incursions and snake handling courses.
Snakebusters are the
only snake handlers who can guarantee public safety at all their Melbourne reptile shows, kids
parties, birthday parties, school shows, corporate reptile displays in
Melbourne, Victoria.
Reptile shows, snake
handling courses, party entertainment, childrens
birthday parties and snake shows with all other Melbourne, Victorian or
Australian companies with venomous snakes are a safety risk!
Snakebusters kids
parties, birthday
party, Melbourne snake shows, reptile shows, Melbourne displays are the
only safe deadly reptile shows in Australia.
It is for this and
other reasons that Snakebusters now have the legally enforceable trademark,
Australia's best reptiles.
Being guaranteed safe
for venomous snake shows is why Snakebusters reptile shows are the best, not
only in Melbourne, but in all parts of Australia.
Australia’s best reptilesâ and hands on reptilesâ are registered trademarks of Snakebustersâ and covers all areas we deal in, including: