Re: Why I CAN'T ride!!! part 1
Wow Bobcat, I'm glad you are okay and are on the road to mending, soon to be back on the road with your bike. Those rattlesnake are nothing to mess with and nothing like meeting one in your house. Thank you to the warning of your dog - guess you were just a little to tall to come eye to eye with your inturder -- good thing.
Many eons ago, I use to milk the venon out of many kinds of rattlesnakes. This allowed for the making of the antivenin (no not a spelling error) that we and our pets get to receive when we encounter such fellow inhabitants of our environment. Intersting, large snakes are able to meter out how much if any venom they adminster, while small snakes tend to blow their whole stash, even when they know the victim they are injecting is not prey. Incidently, something I really want to stress....
DEAD SNAKES STILL BITE!!!!
Every year, people are treated for snake bites (usually when they are getting eye to eye with the critters), after they kill them!! Imagine if your nose or cheek was the lovely shade of eggplant!
Good thing for bringing the snake to the hospital too, Bobcat. Not sure where you live, but here in Arizona, we have Diamondback and Mojave rattlers. Diamondbacks victims get the same treatment you received, however Mojave victims get the same and much, much more. Mojave's contain a neurotoxin that often kills their victims if not treated quickly. The only difference regarding the appearance of the snakes if the width of the black bands on the tail -- the funny thing is, you really have to have the two snakes, of about the same size together to tell the difference, unless you really know your snakes.
Now something else I want to bring up!! What's this girl thing......
I'm the one milking the venom and recently, if the fire department can't do it, I'm one of the people called to move the rattlesnakes out of people's yards. Don't see this girl running and screaming, but I see LOTS of boys!!
And really, sharpscuba, you taped their mouths closed and then let them go!! They breath from those little holes where their tongues stick out of. Now they don't require as many breaths a minute as you do (although maybe after they are caught by a large human being), but they still need to breath.
Hope you get back to riding very soon Bobcat.
And hope your surgery went well, HD4ME!
CatWoman
Wow Bobcat, I'm glad you are okay and are on the road to mending, soon to be back on the road with your bike. Those rattlesnake are nothing to mess with and nothing like meeting one in your house. Thank you to the warning of your dog - guess you were just a little to tall to come eye to eye with your inturder -- good thing.
Many eons ago, I use to milk the venon out of many kinds of rattlesnakes. This allowed for the making of the antivenin (no not a spelling error) that we and our pets get to receive when we encounter such fellow inhabitants of our environment. Intersting, large snakes are able to meter out how much if any venom they adminster, while small snakes tend to blow their whole stash, even when they know the victim they are injecting is not prey. Incidently, something I really want to stress....
DEAD SNAKES STILL BITE!!!!
Every year, people are treated for snake bites (usually when they are getting eye to eye with the critters), after they kill them!! Imagine if your nose or cheek was the lovely shade of eggplant!
Good thing for bringing the snake to the hospital too, Bobcat. Not sure where you live, but here in Arizona, we have Diamondback and Mojave rattlers. Diamondbacks victims get the same treatment you received, however Mojave victims get the same and much, much more. Mojave's contain a neurotoxin that often kills their victims if not treated quickly. The only difference regarding the appearance of the snakes if the width of the black bands on the tail -- the funny thing is, you really have to have the two snakes, of about the same size together to tell the difference, unless you really know your snakes.
Now something else I want to bring up!! What's this girl thing......
I'm the one milking the venom and recently, if the fire department can't do it, I'm one of the people called to move the rattlesnakes out of people's yards. Don't see this girl running and screaming, but I see LOTS of boys!!
And really, sharpscuba, you taped their mouths closed and then let them go!! They breath from those little holes where their tongues stick out of. Now they don't require as many breaths a minute as you do (although maybe after they are caught by a large human being), but they still need to breath.
Hope you get back to riding very soon Bobcat.
And hope your surgery went well, HD4ME!
CatWoman
