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Permalink Reply by Rozzy on January 4, 2009 at 16:12

Regardless, just continue to be the way you are I think it is great and much needed today...

Rozzy

Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on December 28, 2008 at 17:06

Cannie. The class, arachnids, includes not only spiders but scorpions. Best watch out for both.

Permalink Reply by Big Daddy, bcnr on December 28, 2008 at 17:12

That is true Skip (whooaaa, flashback to the biology days in college) and I REALLY hate scorpions. Any thing that will crawl into your boot and wait for you has to go in my book.

Permalink Reply by Bobi Carr ("parker") on December 28, 2008 at 17:15

One more of the many reasons, I love this community. The funniest stories anywhere.

Rosebud, you could have feed the snake to your resident hawk.

Permalink Reply by sesport on December 28, 2008 at 17:21

Rosebud - if it was brown, it sounds like it may have been a pygmy rattler. Funny you should mention it because I found a dead one (had been run over) in my sister's driveway on Shreve Is. on Christmas Day. Maybe they came out because it was a little warmer those days?

PS - You have taken in night crawlers, too? LOL

Permalink Reply by Bobi Carr ("parker") on December 28, 2008 at 17:46

Rosebud,

I'm on the job for you. I'm not joking here. I contacted someone to see if he can relocate your hawk. I will get his number to you. He said he will have to do it when he is going out of town or the hawk will just come back. I forgot how many miles he said it will have to be relocated. He is a "falconer" that I met at a cub scout event.

Permalink Reply by sesport on December 28, 2008 at 19:49

Here's a link to LA Dep't of Wildlife, referenced small snakes. I'm sure one of these was yours.

http://www.wlf.state.la.us/experience/lawildlife/nongame/snakes_of_...

Permalink Reply by sesport on December 28, 2008 at 18:19

Okay, Dolly Momma Snake Charma ... Greenhouse ... geraniums ... there ya' go. Actually, I don't think pygmy rattler's bite is much worse than wasp or bee sting, but likewise if you're allergic it could be a problem.

Permalink Reply by Bobi Carr ("parker") on December 28, 2008 at 18:29

Spiders kill more people than snakes.

Anti-venom for snakes isn't that big of a deal. I was bit in college and had to receive anti-venom. The IV was the worst part.

Permalink Reply by Cathaus on December 28, 2008 at 18:30

Au contraire................inch for inch, the pygmy rattler is as poisonous as its full-sized cousin. The venom attacks the nervous system just as the larger rattlers' venom does.

Permalink Reply by Bobi Carr ("parker") on December 28, 2008 at 18:36

I've been told that for most snake bites today, anti-venom isn't even used unless it is deemed necessary. Pretty much a wait and watch situation. At least that is what I was told.

I was bit when I was in college, which was at least a few years ago. Ummm a few more than 20 2 years ago.

Rattlers may be different from water moccasins.

Permalink Reply by sesport on December 28, 2008 at 20:09

Thanks, Gosh, I'm much more afraid for the dogs than myself. I can outrun a snake, the dogs want to check it out. Also, I'm more afraid of taking the dogs out in the pre-dawn am to find a cougar in a tree, or a coyote in the trash, now that a puma was recently found in a BC neighborhood tree. My poo bags would be no match for one of those.

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