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[perchie.girl]

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I dont kill either... any of them but if i have to I can and have. We have some big rattlers here. Enough for two people meal. I have always wanted to taste rattler meat.

For what its worth too. They are just as dangerous dead. Rattle snakes that is. Best to take care of that head carefully. When I was a kid I asked my dad if he had seen any one ever die... it was one of those kid things you ask out of curiosity... He said yes. A fellow decided to teach the kids how to kill a snake. The object was to whip snap the head off.... only the head didn't come off and came back and got him in the throat. also this story is from the forties...

If you look across the border most of the hacienda sytle homes have a big fence around them solid to the ground they grow the garden in there. There is are a couple of reasons for that.... Help keep the rabbits out.... and keeps the snakes out too. For the most part. all gardens have to be fenced above below and around if you want to get a harvest out of them.

So hardware cloth has to be used throughout the garden keeps the mice and rats out too. Voles and gophers from underneath..


deb

 

[bamadude]

Wisher and I kicked butt as spades partners tonight. It would be cool if some of u joined us

 

[vehve]

Our only venomous snake is the European Viper, and that one is luckily one of the less scary ones. Seldom kills people unless they're allergic. Pets getting bit are more common though.

 

[perchie.girl]

Our only venomous snake is the European Viper, and that one is luckily one of the less scary ones. Seldom kills people unless they're allergic. Pets getting bit are more common though.

dogs survive rattlesnake bite if you get medical attention. There is an aversion class but its very dramatic. And not usefull if they are just romping through the under brush. Because rattle snakes dont necessarily rattle... especially if they are surprised.

There is a vaccine I am not understanding how this works... But It gives you time to treat or get the dog to the vet. If they get bit somewhere other than their face there is a chance they will survive it.

Horses on the other hand get bit on their legs or nose.... The nose is problematic because they cannot breathe through their mouth. Treatment for that is two lengths of garden hose up the nose and something to keep it from falling out. THEN call the vet.

People survive if they are not allergic.... IN all cases at the site of the bite the muscle tissue is never the same because it gets turned to liquid....

I had a very good friend who was last one on a trail ride. By the time the last one passes through all the snakes and critters have scurried on to cover. Well Susie was the last one around a rock in the local forest.... it was cool too. Apparently a baby rattler was sunning itself on that rock and it had finally warmed up enough... and Zap it got her on the thigh. Thing is with babies they dont know how to deliver just enough toxin they deliver it all. And it hung up on her jeans. When they got it off it hat pumped all its denim in. Back then snake bite was treated by cutting an ex on the spot and either sucking out the venom by mouth or by a suction device in the kit.

Needless to say it wasnt a pleasant experience.... The treatment protocol for rattle snake bite has changed since then. But the whole thing left her with a pit in the muscle on her leg about half an inch deep and three or four inches in diameter.

deb

 

[vehve]

Ouch, that sounds painful, Deb.

Karin took a viper bite in the butt once, she went peeing in the night at the cottage. She learned not to pee on snakes that night. But not lasting effects, her hind parts were just a bit sore for a few days.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

 

[vehve]

That's pretty much the reaction she gets from everyone. Apparently people like telling the story too, her mom told us that someone came up to them out in the archipelago at some market, like 150km away from where this happened, and asked them if it was their daughter who had been bitten in the butt.

 

[Alaskan]

Great way to be famous.



I dunno.. Had a ranch dog that got bit in the mouth by a rattler once... He was all kinds of sick and swollen for a few days, but besides loosing the tooth next to the bite he recovered perfectly.

He was a great snake killer.

 

[Alaskan]

Deb, babies are way worse than adult ones... Their poison is often stronger too since they haven't used it yet. Then the fact that it got hung up... Well, just bad all around.

If you get bit by a grown rattler, yes it feels like all of your bones are breaking due to full body muscle issues, but after about three days it recedes, and no pit at the site of the bite. Or at least that is what the guy I knew who had been bitten told me.

He was married to a crazy woman that he was madly in love with. She brought home every injured critter in the world to nurse it back to health. She was always making him stop and pick up snakes along the roadside that had been injured. Yes, poisonous ones too. They had an aquarium for them in their dinning room.

He told me, since I was his friend, whenever I saw a snake by the road, he wanted me to run it over four times, really good.

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, babies are way worse than adult ones... Their poison is often stronger too since they haven't used it yet. Then the fact that it got hung up... Well, just bad all around.

If you get bit by a grown rattler, yes it feels like all of your bones are breaking due to full body muscle issues, but after about three days it recedes, and no pit at the site of the bite. Or at least that is what the guy I knew who had been bitten told me.

He was married to a crazy woman that he was madly in love with. She brought home every injured critter in the world to nurse it back to health. She was always making him stop and pick up snakes along the roadside that had been injured. Yes, poisonous ones too. They had an aquarium for them in their dinning room.

He told me, since I was his friend, whenever I saw a snake by the road, he wanted me to run it over four times, really good.

Heh heh heh heh....

Dad used to live in Plains Texas.... he said he was warned to watch the tires when filling up with air. A story was going around about how snakes would strike the tire and loose a fang....

Dad was a good story teller ..... but you know Texans....

deb