
Wanted to make a safer or another kind of snake catching equipment for animal rescue
I dont have any kind of artistic skills so i just tried to use the lines in paint to make this. From where im from, we really have to be resourceful as we don't have much access to equipment like the cages specifically designed for trapping animals or containing animals.
Ive been with rescuing animals with the org that im in and we commonly just use animal carriages that you commonly bring in a vet clinic or something, but its a bit different with snakes because one of the most dangerous snakes here in my country is a philippine spitting cobra. The container that we use on dogs and cats are not ideal for it and what we commonly use is just an empty water gallon. Putting the cobra in there using the snake tongs is hard without an assistant.
To give some kind of reference, the philippine cobra can grow up to 1.5 meters. There is also an occasional king cobra, that one can grow up to 3 meters. The commonly used snake catching equipment like the snake tongs is not exactly beginner friendly and you still have to put it on the water gallon container which in my opinion is not ideal for a beginner or a very scared rescuer such as me.
So i thought of something, maybe i should just take advantage of their behaviour. From what I learned from my org, snakes prefer to not crawl backwards so using some kind of tube is a great choice. Im also thinking some kind of a slinky tube or any kind of flexible tube so that I can entice the snake to go inside the tube and then to the container/cage. It also helps that the tube is small which they might think its a confine space. Confine space = safety for them.
Another thing is a snake tongs. Using a snake hook is fine for me, if its a non-venomous snake that is. I don't have the balls to use a snake hook against a venomous snake, not even the tongs because the very first time that i used my snake tongs on a largest rat snake that i found, my hands is already shaking because the snake is large enough that my brain keeps telling me that its a cobra even though its just a non-venomous rat snake. The variant or custom tongs that im thinking is maybe similar to a snow shovel that i see on movies, but instead of a hard concave shape, im thinking about a net similar to that of a EZ nabber that veterinarians uses on aggressive cats so that it wont be hard on the snake. So essentially, an EZ nabber that has a long handle.
I still don't have a measurements in mind on my sketch that i made in paint. Im still thinking what kind of materials that i can use and what materials that are available in my town. Im wondering what kind of materials you guys can suggest, preferably ones that are easily accessible? The sketch might not be great but i think its good enough to get the point across especially that this is just one step of my plan hopefully.