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Battling a King Cobra in Cambodia

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Battling a King Cobra in Cambodia True Story Tiger, my husband, and I biked back from the slum (slick huts no clean water, in need of shoes and rice village) after feeling used by God to spread His love and provisions among the poor. This very day at sunset the lighting was getting dim and we heard our two dogs (yellow labrador and boston terrier) growling and barking near the front door of our home (about 3 feet from our open front door). We run out to see a King Cobra with hood flared trying to strike our dogs. Our children Emily, Attalia and Jadon held the dogs back from getting bit as we circled the cobra knowing we had to kill it or be killed by the toxic venom. Tiger did not know if it was a spitting cobra since there are over 40 species of poisonous snakes in Cambodia so he had on his sunglasses as he yelled out, "Which way is the head facing! ". He told me to get a sheet so I ran and got off our bed and Tiger threw it on the cobra. The cobra quickly found a