Battling a King Cobra in Cambodia
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 way out and was coiled striking towards Tiger again. At this point I was standing on an outdoor table yelling which way the head was facing as the kids held back the dogs and we threw a shovel and hoe towards the snake. Tiger then tried to spray it with water and the cobra came right at him through the water. Then Tiger got strength to pick up and toss on the snake a potted tree pot. This was the only think that kept the cobra down for a short time before coming at us again. This second potted tree Tiger threw on the snake kept his head down long enough for our daughter Emily Renee to dive in with the hedge clippers and cut the body of the cobra.
At this time we noticed Khmer neighbors standing at our locked metal barred gate watching us crazy Americans battling the cobra. We opened the gate to see a Khmer man with nothing but a sarong wrapped around his waist on ( we are always hot and sweaty there) and a hoe in his hand asking us if he can have the snake for meat for his family. He chopped off and buried the head (venom dripping from the fangs can still kill after the head is removed) and took the 10 foot King Cobra body home to cook for protein for his family. Our boston terrier, Mango, had venom hissed into her eye trying to protect us and her eye was hugely swollen and red and the vet doubted she would live. She did live which was a prayer answered at that time.
Photos taken by Jadon Smith are from too far as snake is coiled, striking with hood up, but you can see the Hood of the cobra (fuzzy) if you look closely.
Let's keep one another in prayer for ," Protection from the enemy."-Jesus words in His prayer for us in John 17:15
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 way out and was coiled striking towards Tiger again. At this point I was standing on an outdoor table yelling which way the head was facing as the kids held back the dogs and we threw a shovel and hoe towards the snake. Tiger then tried to spray it with water and the cobra came right at him through the water. Then Tiger got strength to pick up and toss on the snake a potted tree pot. This was the only think that kept the cobra down for a short time before coming at us again. This second potted tree Tiger threw on the snake kept his head down long enough for our daughter Emily Renee to dive in with the hedge clippers and cut the body of the cobra.
At this time we noticed Khmer neighbors standing at our locked metal barred gate watching us crazy Americans battling the cobra. We opened the gate to see a Khmer man with nothing but a sarong wrapped around his waist on ( we are always hot and sweaty there) and a hoe in his hand asking us if he can have the snake for meat for his family. He chopped off and buried the head (venom dripping from the fangs can still kill after the head is removed) and took the 10 foot King Cobra body home to cook for protein for his family. Our boston terrier, Mango, had venom hissed into her eye trying to protect us and her eye was hugely swollen and red and the vet doubted she would live. She did live which was a prayer answered at that time.
Photos taken by Jadon Smith are from too far as snake is coiled, striking with hood up, but you can see the Hood of the cobra (fuzzy) if you look closely.
Let's keep one another in prayer for ," Protection from the enemy."-Jesus words in His prayer for us in John 17:15
I believe this was the result of the Spiritual battle as there are angels and demons battling and we are on the winning side with victory through Jesus resurrection from the dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAwi-31sWAI
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