Posted on 09/22/2007 11:18:58 AM PDT by girlangler
“Probably 50 percent of bites are going to be young to middle-aged white males “
“Hold muh beer and watch this..”
Hey Bubba hold ma beer!
forgot about those
THAT is one pi$$ed off looking rattler!
Reminds me of the time I was rabbit hunting in the desert with a .22 when I was 19. I saw a cottontail leap out from behind a sagebrush and stepped foreword as I fired. I hit the rabbit then looked down to see what the spongy feeling thing was under my foot. It was a rattler! I jumped back and shot it too. Double whammy with two shots.
No.
Well, I hope to tell you, a rattlesnake bite is infinitely worse than a copperhead (even if the copperhead manages to get the venom in). My only question, did you field dress the rattlesnake? They are delicious! Tastes like frog legs.
Yes, I did. Ate it that night ( I thought it tasted like chicken LOL). Made a knife sheath out of the skin and still have the rattles somehwere in the garage.
You better be glad. LOL I was attacked by some mountain oysters but they were fried too.
Yep, we have a few of those gators around the Houston area.
HooHoo! Those rattles will make a beautiful pair of earrings.
Beautiful! I’ve never seen a pygmy rattler, had no idea they were so pretty. Out in W. TX where we spent many years, we had diamond backs, and while they are pretty, growing up with them it was hard to think of them as anything other than something to avoid. I knew a boy, growing up, who stepped into a nest of them and was bitten several times. He lost his leg, but he lived.
Do we have pygmy rattlers out here (S. Florida, Delray Beach)? I’ve seen a few coral snakes (mostly dead in the road) and other non poisonous ones. Out in East Texas we had LOTS of copper heads and water moccosins. I think we had rattlers but I never saw one.
susie
Just wondering if anyone knows if the deadliness of a rattlesnake bite is reduced by the draining or milking of venom before a bite?
Try benedryl next time your dog is bitten (unless a rattler, in which case I would get them to a vet asap). I used it and it took the swelling right down. Then antibiotics in case of infection. My old girl was bitten by something while my son was dog sitting while we were out of town. He didn’t notice anything, but when we got back she had a hugely swollen leg, so off to the vet. She drained a couple of cups of icky brownish fluid (probably blood) from the leg and then found the fang marks.
The old girl did ok, but never was quite the same. She died about a year later at almost 13.
susie
“It had an accident about 20 seconds after posing, a stick fell on it. “
Dang those falling stick accidents.
Oh, Thank God! I thought it might be YOU! :)
Should be plenty down there. They usually blend in better, but this one was molting and appeared lighter in color.
I’m sorry I haven’t posted new pix. I have developed carpal tunnel (or something like that) and typing for any length of time is excruciating!
Anyway, yes, all but 3 are gone to their new homes. One went to a baseball player, the family was so nice, and now I guess I have to become a baseball fan!
I kept the white collar girl. Orange (boy) went to a show home in TX that will also do field and agility with him. Yellow collar girl went to a show home in Minnisota. The rest are in nice pet homes.
I still have black collar boy and light green collar boy here. They are bad puppies...hehehe
susie
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