Wildlife experts are setting out traps and searching a Grand Prairie, Texas, neighborhood for a large, venomous West African banded cobra that's been missing since Tuesday evening
"We don't know if the snake is long gone, or if the snake is still in the house, but we have not been able to locate it," Grand Prairie Police Public Information Officer Mark Beseda told CNN.Grand Prairie is a city of about 200,000 people between Dallas and Fort Worth.Snake venom can now be made in a lab and that could save many livesThe owner of the 6-foot-long cobra realized the snake had escaped its enclosure at about 5 p.m.
Police said the owner had a permit to own the snake from the State of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.CNN was not able to contact the snake's owner, but he told CNN affiliate KTVT that he believed the snake was dead."I wanted my community to feel safe. And yeah, it's required. I'm required as a permitted citizen to call my community if somethings, a mishap," owner Tre Mat told KTVT.
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