Scorpion Found, Turned Over to Humane Society

Madistan.com ^ | August 16, 2008 | Jeff Richgels

[skinkinthegrass]

My next door neighbor’s son was eaten by scorpions...The insect or the German Rock Band?....Eaten; is eaten....dead/dead...matters whom / what? *smirk* :)

[Levante]

“Who would hesitate to kill a venomous vermin?”

A perverted liberal...who would also sympathise and slobber over a rapist, a murderer, or an effing terrorist...

...but who wouldn’t hestitate to abort an innocent baby.

Sick bastards.

[Dogbert41]

I used to collect scorpians in jars and watch them fight whatever we put in there with em. They are everywhere here under just about any flat rock. Never been stung by one, but I hear that the ones we have aren’t deadly.

I can’t believe someone on a farm would actually do all that to save one...

[DemforBush]

Agggggh!

(photoshopped or not, I’m takin’ a Hellfire to that thing!)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Our builder's daughter was bitten by a brown recluse here in Camden County during the time he was building our home in ‘02. The wound was just above her elbow and grew from a pin point to a dime, then larger in just two weeks. The local hospital and doctor team feared for the worst until someone suggested taking her to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. They got the bite stabilized and skin restored but today, she has a depression on the back of her arm where the flesh was destroyed.

[K-oneTexas]

You got that right!

[TruthWillWin]

Authorities speculated it might be an escaped pet.

Scorpions are not normally found in Wi?

[Judith Anne]

I use bug bombs regularly in my outbuildings, so I’m not afraid of scorpions or brown recluses as much as before. I got a brown recluse bite one time (at least the doctor thought it was, black center and red around it) but it went away without treatment. He thought it might have been a very low amount of venom (toxin?) or that I was naturally immune.

But I had no idea there were scorpions in Shannon County (where I was stung) until after I got that bad sting. Then my neighbors said, sure, there are scorpions in Southern Mo.

Heh. Wish I’d known...

[Geritol]

I have heard, but do not know for sure, that the main cause of the growing area of immense swelling and then necrotic or dead flesh resulting from the recluse’s bite is not from the venom that the spider injects, but is actualy an infection of the anerobic bacteria living on the fangs.

This country has truly lost it’s freedom when we have to protect the life of a deadly predator instead of taking out the trash.

[Judith Anne]

I must agree.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That’s a big dog Judith Anne !

[yarddog]

I used to date a girl who had the most perfect body I have ever seen. Her skin was also flawless except she had a spot about the size of a quarter on her thigh.

She told me she was bitten by a spider when she was a little girl.

[AuntB]

We’ve got them all over No. California. Some years back my son captured one and kept it in an aquarium for months. He named it Sadam.

[Judith Anne]

I bought him for a birthday present for my husband four years ago last March.

He’s much larger than in the picture, now. He was only a 2 yo puppy then.

http://flyingwfarms.com

That’s where I got him. I have no connection with them, except I love my dog, and they are GREAT breeders.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Horses and dogs. How can you go wrong ?
We owned a Golden Retriever, Prior Lake Jake, when we lived in Minnesota. He was a wonderful animal during his all too short life. if we get another dog, it will have to be a water dog.