Rattlesnake!!!
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From: AZ
Out on a ride with about 10 bikers once, rattler was in the middle of the road and as the bikes went by he struck out at a couple of them!!
Get a lot here in the boonies, have a swimming pool and once walked out there and a rattler was halfway in the pool.... drank for about 15 seconds, got out and went away!
Get a lot here in the boonies, have a swimming pool and once walked out there and a rattler was halfway in the pool.... drank for about 15 seconds, got out and went away!
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From: Mount Laurel, N.J.
Same thing here one time, I was riding my old mc to the beach one day. Saw a car pulled over to the side of the road and the driver was looking at something in the road. Turned out to be a timber rattler coiled in the road. Lifted my feet up to the handle bars as I rode past. Passed the other way later and there was only a grease spot in the road. Guess a lot of cars ran over it.
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From: S.C.
Came across this Timber rattler on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park about three weeks ago just sitting in the road. I waited till it decided to get off the road. According to the rattles it was 8 years old.
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From: Alamogordo, NM
Last year as I rounded a curve coming home on the bike, there was one crossing the road. That thing almost stretched 1/2 way across the road. I stopped and let him finish crossing.
In the 8 years that I have lived in NM, I have shot 2 of them on my property. If they get anywhere near my living space, they are dead. I'm not taking the chance of myself or my animals getting bitten. The birds of prey don't let them go to waste.
In the 8 years that I have lived in NM, I have shot 2 of them on my property. If they get anywhere near my living space, they are dead. I'm not taking the chance of myself or my animals getting bitten. The birds of prey don't let them go to waste.
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From: Mims,Fl.
I was camping one time and had just brewed a pot of coffee when there came this terrible thrashing and roaring in the woods. Up comes this gaint of a man riding a grizzley bear and using a live rattlesnake as a whip. He asked if we minded if he shared a little of that coffee as it smelled mighty good. Of course we were glad to share and he grabbed the pot off the fire and turned it up and gulped it down. He then jumped on the bear and roared off as he yelled over his shoulder that he'd like to stay longer but he couldn't,there was a mean SOB after him.
I swear it's a true story,mention of rattlesnakes brought it to mind.
Good Luck
Tom
I swear it's a true story,mention of rattlesnakes brought it to mind.
Good Luck
Tom
The first two times he got antevenom. The third time the vet just watched to see his reaction. He was fine. Guess he vaccinated himself. He's a pretty smart cat. Seriously, I've heard of getting low doses of venom to build a resistance, like a vaccine for the flu or mumps.
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From: Oregon
I'm suprised your cat got bite. Living on a ranch in So. Cal. the dogs started barking one morning, went out and there was a Mojave Green rattlesnake in the dog run. It bite the auzzie, took him to the vet and learned a couple things. Adults not looking for food and just giving a warning will sometimes only release a very minuim amount of venum. The only one we ever saw on the property, The vet asked if we had cats, yes six of them that have free roam of the ranch. Vet said snakes will not crawl over cat fur. That is why it was in the dog run, only place the cats would not go.
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I got hit on the right foot by a rattle snake while dirt biking as a kid in southeastern Arizona. Only one fang actually got me through my boots. The snake lost both fangs and it's neck was broke. I didn't realize it until my brother told me I got bit. I had to pull the one fang out of my foot with pliers to get my foot out of the boot. I guess at 60mph it never had a chance to inject any venom. The other fang was stuck in the side of my boot. The snake was about 4 1/2 feet long. I took it home a let our neighbor's golden eagle have it. (They had a lot of raptors.)