The boy almost died because of the pet he was once very close to.

Besides dogs and cats, many young people are increasingly expanding their pet ownership to many unique animals that startle viewers. The character in the story below has the nickname Phuthanate Ice from Thailand as an example.

Unlike most people, Phuthanate chose a unique pet for herself: a cobra . The dangerous animal that everyone seems to want to avoid is raised and loved by him just like pets like dogs and cats.

And just like many people feared when they heard about a young man keeping a cobra as a pet, the unfortunate incident actually happened and almost took the young man’s life.

Raising a cobra as a pet because it's 'gentle like an eel', the boy paid a high price - Photo 1.

Cobras are kept as pets.

Recently, the owner of the animal posted a post sharing the story between him and the animal to warn about the dangerous hobby of keeping pets.

Phuthanate said he was very close to this animal. The two of them have been together for such a long time, that he can really trust it and let it slip through his fingers every day. “Because it is very gentle, not aggressive, calm, comparable to an eel,” the boy said.

But that was before the incident happened when Phuthanate was playing with the animal. In a moment of perhaps excitement, the cobra bit its owner’s hand. The boy gave first aid himself and brought the snake for his friend to take to the hospital.

Raising a cobra as a pet because it's 'gentle like an eel', the boy paid a high price - Photo 2.

While playing, the boy was bitten on the hand by the animal.

“The burning pain became unbearable immediately after being bitten, and 30 minutes later I felt dizzy. My eyelids began to droop, I sweat profusely, my limbs began to tire. My muscles were unable to function. ability to move. After that, the doctor put me on a ventilator while waiting for the serum. In my mind at that time I thought that I would definitely not survive,” he recounted his life-and-death moment.

“Let me tell you that that night I almost did not survive. Because I got to the hospital quickly but I had to wait for the serum for nearly 2 hours, now my symptoms are out of danger. But there are The toe in the upper part is necrotic and needs to be cut continuously.

The doctor said that I might have to have the finger amputated, because almost the entire finger was dead. But in this case, I was very lucky to have given first aid properly. The finger is still partially usable so it was not cut.”

Raising a cobra as a pet because it's 'gentle like an eel', the boy paid a high price - Photo 3.

Phuthanate luckily escaped death and shares her story as a warning to those who like to take risks in raising pets.

According to the young man, fortunately he narrowly survived thanks to timely first aid. Even so, he still had to have part of his finger amputated because of necrosis caused by snake venom.

“Thank you for everyone’s words of encouragement. This life lesson is to not blame anything except yourself for playing with fire,” Phuthanate warned. This is clearly a lesson as well as a reminder for those who have been planning to choose dangerous animals as pets.