A month after being bitten by one of the world’s deadliest snakes, Jeffrey Leibowitz was at a Grand Strand reptile show, posing for selfies and mingling with vendors.

“I didn’t know what to expect. I was expecting fights, but everyone was so nice. They genuinely seemed to care that I was OK, and it was so cool,” the Florence resident posted to his NotDeadYet YouTube channel Oct. 6. “A lot of people asked for selfies and stuff.”

He was at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center for the Ultimate National Reptile Show.

Leibowitz called emergency medical services early on the morning of Sept. 6 after a snake he was freehandling bit him inside his home, but it wouldn’t be until hours later that officials learned the attack was carried out by an inland taipan, Florence police said.

Authorities obtained a search warrant and along with state wildlife agents recovered two cats and 14 snakes, including one green mamba, two gaboon vipers, one fer-de-lace, one death adder, one eastern diamondback rattlesnake, two black forest cobras, two adult rattlesnakes (species unknown), two neotropical rattlesnakes, one small rattlesnake (species unknown) and one inland taipan.

NewsNation local affiliate WBTW asked police about photos from Leibowitz’s apartment. but was told they would not be released because it is not a criminal matter and the public has been informed, so there would be no benefit to public interest in releasing photos that reveal the victim’s home.

In comments to his YouTube page, Leibowitz criticized the police response.

“There’s 52 axe marks on my floor which they used to kill 14 snakes. Most of them were not in bins, they were in tanks, and they took them out and killed them all, including little babies that were camouflaged that were bothering nobody,” he said.

Will Dillman, assistant chief of wildlife at the state Department of Natural Resources, evaluated the animals and said it was unlikely that any zoo or sanctuary would accept them because of their conditions and potential for unknown diseases.

Authorities said they contacted multiple organizations including Riverbanks Zoo, Alligator Adventure, Reptile Lagoon, the Edisto Island Serpentarium and South of the Border, but none would agree to house them — leading all 14 to be euthanized.

Leibowitz called the outcome a “disgrace,” especially since it’s not against the law for people to own venomous snakes — although selling, transporting and rehoming them are violations.

“If they didn’t know what to do with them, that’s a disgrace. They should have procedures. These snakes are legal here, and if somebody does get bit, they have to have procedures,” he said.

Leibowitz said members of the reptile caretaking community would have been willing to take the snakes as well.

“There would have been many people willing to take care of them, so this whole thing about not being able to find a place is nonsense. And the places that say they couldn’t take care of them, they don’t know the most basic procedures about quarantine?” he said. “What if it was a snake in the wild? They wouldn’t know what to do?”

On Oct. 9, Leibowitz posted a short YouTube clip of himself handling a cobra with his bare hands.