- Ooh, Bruce brought Jasmine in today.
Of course, the white Cobra.
But this time of the year sometimes snakes can actually go
through a little bit of a rough shed
because the fry with the cold weather
and all of that heat that's going on.
So Bruce was at his house
and found out about that this morning.
- [Bruce] Jasmine has actually, she's got a real bad shed.
She bust through her shed yesterday.
And I told Brian usually I do this kind of stuff by myself,
but it's always a lot safer with an extra pair of hands.
So I'm gonna bring her.
We're gonna shed her out actually
up here at The Reptarium.
- And now we're back here with Jasmine.
And of course now the issue is
how do we get that stuck shed off her?
She definitely has quite a bit of shed on her.
So that's gonna be a little bit of an issue.
So giving a Cobra a bath
is not always the easiest thing to do.
And she is definitely in a little bit of a mood here today,
moving around like crazy.
So what we have to do is get her in the water.
Woo doggy. That's right.
This is how you give a Cobra a bath right here.
It's a two-man team. Thanks, Bruce.
You're saving my life, buddy.
- [Bruce] No worries, brother.
Where I really need your help is obviously around that head.
I can obviously do it myself,
but obviously personal safety.
I'd much rather do it with a two-man team
and you're the guy to come to with that kind of stuff.
- Yeah. So a two-man team when it's something like this
is very important again.
If it was just a little bit on the back,
you could put it in a tube, get it off,
whatever the case is.
But because she has stuck shed on her head,
we have to try to see if we can get it off her head,
which is gonna be extremely dangerous.
But at the same time,
with two people that have been working
with venomous snakes for a long time,
hey, what could possibly go wrong? Right?
- Next day the mother (beep) was dead.
- We're gonna let her sit in here
for probably a good half hour to 45 minutes.
Get that shed really nice and soft,
so that when we are taking it off,
it's gonna be as easy as possible.
- [Mike] Man.
I gotta clean up tortoise pee
and they're playing with cobras and it's baloney.
- We'll check up on Jasmine really quick.
It's been about a half an hour.
You can see the shed is starting
to come off pretty good over here,
but it still looks pretty stuck on her head part.
So we don't wanna take any chances.
We wanna make sure that she's soaking really good,
so that it's really easy to come off.
And she seems to be enjoying it,
so we'll give her another half hour.
Set the time.
- Man. Brian's stupid new water bowls.
When am I gonna get to play with this stuff
and just hang out and just not do this?
- [Brian] So it's time.
Now this is when it gets sketchy again.
I'm gonna use Bruce's expertise quite a bit,
because he's been working with Jasmine
like this for quite some time.
And what we're gonna do is we're gonna get her
on this soft ground right here.
So not only is it a little sticky
so we have some room to work with her,
but also the fact that it'll just be easier for her,
a little bit softer for her.
So the idea is here...
I'm gonna let you take it over, Bruce.
And we're just gonna kind of get it towards her head
and we're gonna pin her head. Right guys?
So we're gonna get her over here,
pin her head.
(indistinct) You have that.
Where it's gonna be completely safe.
Now we can start working some of the skin off her.
You can see the skin in the back is really easy.
What a beautiful snake too.
I mean, wow. Look at that.
Look at that perfect.
But this is the easy part though.
Down here is no problem.
But wow, she is absolutely beautiful.
That came off super easy.
I'm gonna try to get even closer up right by his hand
and just slowly get this off.
And again, this is just something that happens again
when it gets a little bit too dry,
which happens this time of year.
Now this is when it gets a little bit tricky.
Bruce has to get at the top of its head off
with these tweezers.
Very gently, without getting bitten obviously.
And you don't wanna ever hurt the animal itself.
Just gotta break that skin away.
It's on there pretty tight. You can see.
Now it just slowly broke.
And we have some Q-tips here too to try to rub a little bit.
Again, it is a little bit tricky.
I trust... I've got to put a lot of trust in Bruce,
cause I'm less than an inch away
from the fangs of this snake.
- So you can see she's starting
to perk up a little bit right there.
- She sure is. She would love nothing more.
It's still stuck on her pretty good on her head.
I'm starting to get it.
Slowly breaking away a little bit.
And guys, since we're doing this crazy stuff,
make sure to smash this like button for me.
Let's get this video to at least 10,000 likes, all right,
for messing with a Cobra this close.
So difficult.
So, you gotta be so careful and so precise on this one
to get it off of her.
She's definitely not happy right now,
which I don't underst-
- Very uncomfortable.
- [Brian] There you go.
There it is.
Getting close. Yep.
Again, what Bruce is doing is not really using the steel
of the tweezers to actually poke on it.
It's just almost using it to peel away the skin
a little bit, little bit by little.
- They got me over here making salads like I'm a newbie.
Can't have any fun.
Oh my goodness.
Oh. It's a new (indistinct) Cobra.
Look at it.
Wait. Ah. No.
It got me.
I'm going down.
Help.
God.
- [Brian] Bit of a sketchy thing.
Oh, she's peeing on me now.
I don't blame her. I don't blame her.
She's not happy.
It's all right. There it is
- [Bruce] Wow, son of a bitch.
- He didn't get that eye cap.
Almost got it.
And you wanna get the shed off,
because obviously it's not good for them
if they have shed built up.
And in a normal snake,
you just soak it and just rub it off with your fingers.
As a matter of fact, a lot of times you get those
rubber fingers that you can use for counting money
and it comes right off.
As a matter of fact, that's not a bad idea, Bruce.
I'm gonna...
- So I got to let her.
- Go ahead. Let her go for a second.
- One, two, three, up.
- Okay, we're good.
All right so she's not happy. That's okay.
What we're gonna do.
Let her soak for just a few more minutes
and then we're gonna come back.
And I've got an idea that might work
even a little bit better.
So I'm gonna get the snake hook real quick,
cause she's not happy with this,
but she just needs a little bit more soak time.
And I think we got it under control.
So guys, we're halfway there.
We're gonna get there, I promise.
We'll get the shed off of Jasmine.
And this is a little rubber finger thing
that you can put on your a finger to count money,
but it works really good cause it grips really well.
We'll be able to use this to kind of get all that shed
off of Jasmine's head.
- Mike.
Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
- What's up? - How's your day going, man?
- Kind of boring to be honest with you.
- I can fix that.
(jolly music playing)
- All right, my food's here.
I appreciate the fun.
I'm gonna go eat now.
- [Brian] Okay. Back at it.
Jasmine's been soaking for about another half hour here.
So we'll just get her out and start over again,
but this time we've got that special tool,
which of course...
Oh, and it looks a lot looser too.
I tell you what, that's amazing.
Here, Bruce. I'm gonna give you that.
I'll hold on to this side.
Probably not gonna be happy.
But the bottom jaw looks like it's already coming off.
There you go.
All right. You can see the bottom jaws already coming off.
So that's really amazing here.
And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take this right here
and I'm just gonna use it to kind of get her eyes off.
See that eye cap will come off pretty easy here.
There's the eye cap.
I'm gonna just take the tweezers
and just pluck it off real quick.
And there's the eye cap right there.
Woo. Got that eye cap off.
And now I'm gonna just kind of do the same thing.
- See that thing right there is trying to come out.
- A little bit harder with the venomous snake,
because you can't really get into it as hard as you want.
- And the more you press, she's actually gonna get upset.
And as you guys saw earlier, she'll flip out and pee
and stuff like that.
Let's start on the other side, Brian.
Let's see if you can get all these (indistinct).
- It's a little difficult.
I wanna put it on my finger,
but I don't wanna put it on my finger
if you know what I mean.
I'm gonna use this a little bit.
What if you shoot it here, Bruce?
- [Bruce] Let me try and reset.
One, two, three. Up.
- [Brian] There you go.
- A little bit better.
- You can see there's bottom off here.
We can get this off real quick.
It's pretty good stuck on her face though.
And get that bottom jaw really good like that.
The bottom's coming off nicely.
The top needs to get a little more.
Getting a little bit off at a time.
You really like this to come off in one piece
if at all possible,
but that's not gonna happen today unfortunately.
So we just got to kind of keep working on it.
You wanna try a little bit with your...
There it's coming.
(indistinct)
- The quicker the better though, right?.
Jerry, get the eye cap in.
- [Jerry] I don't know if I...
I don't think we can add that (indistinct)
- [Brian] There it is.
- [Bruce] There we go, girl.
Let me get the rest off the top of your head
and we will be all done.
- [Brian] I can't stress you.
Not only is this dangerous to do,
we gotta be working tandem
and make sure that we're both safe,
but also, you can't hurt the snake.
So I don't want you guys taking out tweezers
and trying to get your (indistinct) caps out,
cause that's how you actually can blind your animal, right.
So make sure you don't do it.
Bruce knows what he's been doing.
He's been doing it a long, long time
and we're being super gentle with her right now.
And there, look at that right there.
Look at that piece right there.
It comes off.
Perfect.
That's what we're looking for right there.
Look at that.
- [Bruce] Now that's a lot easier.
All right, we'll flip her back.
Brian, you wanna take over from here?
That makes it easier on me.
I've got to flat and ease this tail out.
- That's as best I can.
We still have some stuff on this side.
- (indistinct)
You are not having a good day today, are you?
Neither am I.
I don't like doing it to you.
Looks like we must do (indistinct)
that part of the chin right here.
- [Brian] You see the top of her head
is completely done now,
which is great.
Now we just gotta work down her neck.
And the neck part is gonna come off pretty easy.
The chin part is gonna come off pretty easy.
- [Bruce] All right, I'm gonna let her go now.
- [Brian] Ready?
- [Bruce] One, two, three, up.
- [Brian] There you go.
- [Bruce] The rest should be pretty easy after that point.
Sorry Brian. - No you're okay. I got you.
- One more time. You wanna grab her?
- You can back off now.
- Can I go? - Yeah.
We'll get that last little piece off and bam.
- Alrighty.
- She looks beautiful.
And again, I continue to tell you guys
that these types of things are dangerous,
but at the same time,
we wanna make a hundred percent sure
that Jasmine is good.
That stuck shed could be a problem for her.
It really wasn't that bad a stress on her.
I think we were probably more stressed out than she was
to be honest with you,
mainly because we just wanted her to be comfortable
and we didn't wanna put her into any situation
that's gonna hurt her.
But now look at that beautifully white shed snake.
I tell you what, Bruce.
I love this animal.
Every time you bring it, I fall in love with her more.
What an absolutely gorgeous animal.
She is a sweetheart.
She really is.
I mean, just take a look at how amazing
that snake is right there.
So she is all ready to go.
And that is how you give a white cobra a bath
and get some shed off.
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