Posted on 06/09/2015 10:50:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A mom and her son had quite the scare when the young boy was bitten by a rattlesnake while walking along a bike trail.
Jaclyn Caramazza, who is nine months pregnant, was anticipating a trip to the hospital sometime this month. But she was expecting the visit for the birth of her newborn, not for a snakebite scare.
On their way back from a stroll on the Folsom Bike Trail, her 4-year-old son Vinny accidentally stepped on something brown. Something coiled up.
“It wasn’t dog poop,” Vinny said.
“I know, it was a snake,” his mom said.
Knowing that something was wrong with her son, Jaclyn tended to the area.
“I’m looking around, and took his shoes off, and lo-and-behold, there were two little puncture marks,” Jaclyn said.
Vinny was bitten by a startled baby rattlesnake.
Within minutes, Vinny’s ankle started to swell and turned purple… the venom spread to his entire leg.
“Mama bear instinct in me decided to suck the venom because that’s what Bonanza does,” Jaclyn said.
But officials advise strongly against that.
“Misconception is lacerate between the two points and suck the venom out,” Chris Stoots, with California Fish and Wildlife, said. “Absolutely don’t do that. Use your basic wound type stuff, soap and water, wash the area, keep it clean and call 911 immediately.”
In your best effort to avoid a snakebite, always wear closed-toed shoes and socks instead of going barefoot or wearing sandals.
Also, don’t provoke the snake or it could attack you. If it does, call 911 first.
Luckily, the venom Jaclyn tried to suck out of Vinny’s leg didn’t spread to her or her unborn son.
As for Vinny, he’s recovering well. From now on, the family will be a little more cautious.
“Being more aware of our surroundings and putting up some things in our backyard to keep the snakes out and counting our blessings,” she said.
You can get more information on rattlesnake safety, here.
What does she mean Bonanza? The old TV show?
I guess you can’t say, “They said your gonna die,” to your four year old son.
I remember the fat broad on B.C. when she would find a snake: “Wham, Wham!”
There is one snakebite kit that does work. But the device generates way more suction than a person’s mouth can.
Any idea where this took place??
True story-—my grandfather was bit on his ankle by a large cobra. This is circa 1890 in India. He had no access to anti-venom or even a hospital. He did the only possible thing..he took a burning log of wood and burned the area around the bite. I have seen his large scars on the ankle and he lived to be 95.
Yes, in Folsom CA, along the bike trail that runs next to the creek by Blue Ravine road. That trail was about 10 feet from the bedroom window of an apartment I lived in. My cats used to bring home rats and baby rattlers. The marsh/creekbed is swarming with both.
Folsom. Where the prison is.
I heard they are good eating.
You talkin’ about the cat, the rats or the rattlers? or, maybe all three?
Rattlers.
Well, where there are rats. There are surely cats. Where there’s swamps, there are surely snakes.
I’ve tasted rattlesnake. It doesn’t taste like chicken. More like stringy, boney fish crossed with something else. I would eat it for survival, otherwise I pass.
As for cats I love them too much to eat one. And rats may taste like pumpkin pie, but I won’t eat one because they’re a filthy animal.
Agree. I had a rattlesnake sandwich one time that was quite good. Expensive though.
Punchline of an old joke: You’re gonna die!
See post #2
My brother hunts in upstate NY and often hikes areas in the off season to see if he wants to hunt there later on. This was a few years back but NYS kept telling him there weren't any rattlers in the state. He came up over a ridge and looked down to see hundreds (he stopped counting at 100) of rattlers sunning themselves on a large ledge. He took pictures. NY still tells him “there aren't that many”.
Great minds think alike.
In the midwest - the DNR refuses to acknowledge cougars. If they aknowledge them they can be responsible for any damege they cause.
If they do not aknowledge the cats- they are one offs, visitors that are passing through,if they cause damage
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