While conducting a tour around ACM websites this morning, this headline stopped me in my tracks: “Baby cobra attracts visitors in animal control office.”
Check out the first few graphs of Steve Nash’s story from the Bulletin’s website, www.brownwoodtx.com.
Surely unaware of its own beauty, its quick-strike deadliness – and the stir it caused during a month on the loose – a young sunset monocle cobra stared down visitors to Brownwood Animal Control Officer Nick Ferguson’s office Thursday morning, head raised, hood flared, sometimes striking at people who ventured close enough to the glass aquarium that now houses the reptile.
Representatives of For The Love of Nature in Abilene were on their way to Brownwood Thursday morning to take custody of the snake, Ferguson said as visitors to his office marveled at the baby reptile – which, with a length of about 2 feet, is larger than what Ferguson and others involved in the search for the snake had been told.
The cobra’s month of freedom ended Wednesday night with the capture of the missing snake, which is alive and well and “currently incarcerated at the Brownwood Police Department,” Police Chief Mike Corley informed the media via email Thursday morning.
For the complete story, click the following link: http://www.brownwoodtx.com/news/local/article_e32a4f2a-58ba-11e1-bbab-0019bb2963f4.html
To see a view report from the Brownwood staff, click play on the video player below:
