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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Problems with Pets. I'm talking about the dangerous side here

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Speaker 2: because I know people like exotic pets, snakes, spiders. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you can put anything that you want down there. But

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Speaker 2: I mean there's a lot of people.

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Speaker 3: You know what.

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Speaker 2: The other day I went around a guy's house. He's

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Speaker 2: got scorpions. What he just loves looking at their tails?

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Speaker 3: Are they like American scorpions, the big ones that you see.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, they know they weren't huge, But I

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Speaker 2: was just like man and just if you've had problems

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Speaker 2: with pets. Thirteen twenty four ten. Mark Anthony Kirby lives

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Speaker 2: in Prescott and Merseyside over in the UK, and he

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Speaker 2: had a fear of spiders when he was younger whip

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Speaker 2: to the point that he actually got over that and

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Speaker 2: now he's obsessed with them. So he went and bought

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Speaker 2: a pet spider and brought it home for he and

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Speaker 2: the family, and he was just in love with this spot.

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Speaker 2: The unfortunate thing is that when he was transporting it

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Speaker 2: from the car from the pet store to the house,

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Speaker 2: had no idea but the spider had actually bit him.

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Speaker 3: So he complained his hands.

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Speaker 2: So he was so happy. His partner Kaylee Gill, said,

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Speaker 2: he was so happy. The next few days, he just

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Speaker 2: thought he came down with COVID or the flu, started

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Speaker 2: complaining about feeling ill. She said, he was still playing

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Speaker 2: pranks around the house.

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Speaker 3: Funny.

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Speaker 2: We thought he was okay, but he just went downhill. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: two days later he passed away.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, he.

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Speaker 2: Didn't identify that the US the venomous spider that he

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Speaker 2: bought as a pet had bitten him, and for two

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Speaker 2: days that venom was going through his system and he

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Speaker 2: passed away.

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Speaker 3: Can I just throw it out there? I reckon, if

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Speaker 3: you buy something that could bite you or kill you

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Speaker 3: like that as a pet, you're an idiot. Do you

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Speaker 3: know they have in the states in the US fits

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Speaker 3: I saw a doco on this. You were allowed to

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Speaker 3: keep pet tigers. But it's something like a one hundred

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Speaker 3: and eighty people are killed every year by their pet

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Speaker 3: tigers because they had it as a baby cat and

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Speaker 3: then it grows up and they can't believe it's got

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Speaker 3: me round the throat.

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Speaker 2: Well, what snakes? Problems with pets that ain't twenty four ten?

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Speaker 2: Snakes are the other one, because I think snakes can

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Speaker 2: get out sometimes, and this is the thing. They like

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Speaker 2: to constrict around anything that's near them. It's just I

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Speaker 2: don't know. Okay, it's great to have an Okay, you're

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Speaker 2: feeding in a mouse.

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Speaker 3: That's really I'm around to see. I went to the

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Speaker 3: pet shop in Terry Hills a while ago to get

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Speaker 3: some fish fits and they had a reptile area, so

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Speaker 3: they had turtles and snakes. But what was interesting was

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Speaker 3: I had no idea the baby snakes. So I'm talking

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Speaker 3: a snake that's about twenty centimeters long and really thin.

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Speaker 3: They were about five hundred dollars each. The big snakes

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Speaker 3: were about three hundred dollars. And I said, why the

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Speaker 3: smaller ones cheaper than the big ones? And they said, oh,

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Speaker 3: because if they're smaller, you can train them to be

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Speaker 3: I said, what, so you're selling that one? That's not

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Speaker 3: okuy's going to get that?

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Speaker 2: Sean in Silverdale. You're a snake catcher. Do they make

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Speaker 2: good pets?

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Speaker 1: Sean, yeah, money guys, Yeah, absolutely they do. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's it's like anything. You know. Some people are in

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Speaker 1: the cats, some people in the dogs, some people are

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Speaker 1: in the reptiles or birds. Right, So, and they are

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Speaker 1: writing one respect where you can kind of train them.

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Speaker 1: It's just the more you handle the snake, the more

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Speaker 1: comfortable to lose around whoever it's around. Right, Okay, So,

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Speaker 1: although they're still essentially a wild creature and it's hard

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Speaker 1: to gauge like their attitude without experience, and as far

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Speaker 1: as getting out, I mean, that does happen. I'm coming

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Speaker 1: across escape pets all the time. So you know, people

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Speaker 1: have barbecues or whatever, and they go and they get

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Speaker 1: on the cans or whatever and they go check out

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Speaker 1: me snake, you know, like the one that's in the enclosure,

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Speaker 1: and then eventually what happens is they don't lock it

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Speaker 1: up properly.

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Speaker 3: No snakes. I've always said that, sure don't snake and

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Speaker 3: can exotic other exotic pits.

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Speaker 2: I saw a guy with scorpions. Yeah that I what

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Speaker 2: else have you seen that people have his pits?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Mate, you know there's spiders, there's scorpions, there's you know,

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Speaker 1: I've seen stuff. There's some illegal stuff out here obviously,

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Speaker 1: like hedgehogs and stuff like that. It's I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: exotic rot so obviously they get sees and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: But they're definitely crocodiles, and it's just all sorts of

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Speaker 1: want a crocodile in their back yard.

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Speaker 3: If we get back to the idea of having a

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Speaker 3: snake as a pet, what do you do with a

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Speaker 3: snake when you go I'm going to go play with

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Speaker 3: a snake. Besides feeding the snake, what else do you

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Speaker 3: do with it?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's quite a calming thing here. I

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Speaker 1: mean people sleep with it in the landerhum and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, and it's just an interesting topic gospos that

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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't have. There's a big fear

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Speaker 1: obviously out there of snakes.

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Speaker 3: Can outside of outside of a python, Like if you've

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Speaker 3: got a diamondback, it's quite a friendly snake. Can you

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Speaker 3: have a red belly black snake or a king brown?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely, it's just a different class of license. So

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Speaker 1: obviously they have to be in a locker room with

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Speaker 1: obviously first day protocols and things like that, but you

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Speaker 1: can you can step it up to have you know,

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Speaker 1: the top five in the world. If that's here and

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Speaker 1: we get on the cans, you know, I get into

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Speaker 1: the can to get the type had it all. Thank you?

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