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Posted on 9/6/14 at 8:06 pm to TheIndulger
quote:He knows what it's like shooting blanks
How could you tell it was a dry bite? Did you know when it bit, or just because you didn't get sick?
Posted on 9/6/14 at 8:08 pm to Caplewood
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You gonna get another pug when butters dies?
I don't want to think about that day
Not sure....my husband isn't the biggest fan of Butters. Don't know how I can convince him that getting another pug would be a great idea
Plus...I'll likely be a basket case when he dies that getting the same breed of dog might not be the best idea...might be better off getting a totally different breed.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 8:28 pm to TheIndulger
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How could you tell it was a dry bite? Did you know when it bit, or just because you didn't get sick?
he put both fangs in me but pulled right back out. It was weird, almost like slow motion. Right on my ankle
soon as I felt it I knew what it was, felt like a bee sting.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 8:37 pm to TheIndulger
Guy I grew up with, he and a friend use to go in the woods looking for water moccassins to drain the poison. One time he got bit and had to be driven to the hospital for it
Posted on 9/6/14 at 9:11 pm to TheIndulger
MIL is a nurse in podunk Mississippi. She was at the house last weekend and told me a story about a recent incident. Lady was walking her dog in the woods and came across a rattler. Dog was barking at the snake and while trying to get the dog away she was bit. By the time she got to the hospital she was bleeding from all orifices - eyes, ears, nose, etc. They did not think she would make it. Gave her anti-venom and flew her to a bigger hospital where they gave her lots of anti-venom. She lived.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 9:21 pm to TheIndulger
My dad was bitten by a Cottonmouth when he was a teenager. My uncle was bitten around 3 times by venomous snakes, and once by a Gila monster. That one almost put him down. I used to love when we'd go the the snake farm on Hwy. 90 around Slidell back in the day. Lots of guys hanging around there who were missing a couple fingers.
I've always been careful on which snakes I handled, but I take more risks now that I'm done practicing dentistry and don't need my fingers as much. It's a rush bare-handing a venomous snake. I've said this before, but I equate it to when I raced motocross and would eye up a 60-70 foot jump for the first time. You know and fear the consequences, adrenaline is pumping and your a-hole is puckering, and you just go for it. Everyone should try it some time. My wife finally wore me down on my pet rattler, so I'm getting rid of it when I pick up my Jungle Jag Carpet Python next weekend.
ETA - This will sound stupid, but I kinda want to find out what a bite feels like. Not from a 7 foot Eastern Diamondback or anything like that, but maybe my Pygmy Rattler or a Copperhead. Though I'm sure I'd regret it afterwards.
I've always been careful on which snakes I handled, but I take more risks now that I'm done practicing dentistry and don't need my fingers as much. It's a rush bare-handing a venomous snake. I've said this before, but I equate it to when I raced motocross and would eye up a 60-70 foot jump for the first time. You know and fear the consequences, adrenaline is pumping and your a-hole is puckering, and you just go for it. Everyone should try it some time.
My wife finally wore me down on my pet rattler, so I'm getting rid of it when I pick up my Jungle Jag Carpet Python next weekend. ETA - This will sound stupid, but I kinda want to find out what a bite feels like. Not from a 7 foot Eastern Diamondback or anything like that, but maybe my Pygmy Rattler or a Copperhead. Though I'm sure I'd regret it afterwards.
This post was edited on 9/6/14 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 9/6/14 at 9:27 pm to 911Moto
My dad told me a story about when he was young he and his FIL (my grandpa from my mom's side for those that have been drinking) were frogging and my grandpa was bitten by a moccasin. He never went to the doctor, just rested for a few days and got back after it.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 9:27 pm to 911Moto
Are you a tard?
Posted on 9/6/14 at 9:36 pm to TheIndulger
Cousin was bit one the ankle by a cottonmouth.
One week in the hospital. He got hit good.
One week in the hospital. He got hit good.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 9:40 pm to TheIndulger
Friend as a kid used to catch moccasins. One got him on the thumb and his arm swelled up like a balloon. Joey was his named. In creek by Wimbledon neighborhood.
I've had same thoughts on trail. Close calls w copperheads in NC mtns. Esp w dogs I get nervous because they won't back down.
I try to stick to Rockies out of rattlesnake range these days.
I've had same thoughts on trail. Close calls w copperheads in NC mtns. Esp w dogs I get nervous because they won't back down.
I try to stick to Rockies out of rattlesnake range these days.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 9:43 pm to TheIndulger
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was thinking how bad it would be if she or I got bit. It was a good hour of fast walking to get out to the trailhead, no phone service, no hospitals near by, 2 hour drive to town.
#1 killer of white people. Stupid crap like this.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 9:58 pm to TheIndulger
Yep, bitten by a timber rattler in 3rd phase of boot camp, called BWT. It was a week of field training at the old abandoned air strip area of Paris Island. He crawled up in my sleeping bag and I didn't check it before I crawled in. He bit me, I screamed like a bitch and the DI looked at it, told me to shut my whore mouth and go back to sleep. The senior DI had medical come have a look and they sent me back to sick bay. Got a day's bed rest out if it and then back to the sticks. Hurt like a son of a bitch.
Posted on 9/6/14 at 10:45 pm to lsunurse
I had my dog rattlesnake trained when he was 1 or 2. He's a 65lb German shepherd mix and is now 11.
Rattlesnakes have a unique smell so the training is only good for rattlesnakes. They bring to dog up to a box with a pissed off snake in it and then shock the shite out of the dog when he goes to sniff the cage.
I assume it worked pretty well. More than one occasion we would be walking and he would stop and you couldn't get him to continue in that direction. I'm guessing he smelled a rattler nearby.
Rattlesnakes have a unique smell so the training is only good for rattlesnakes. They bring to dog up to a box with a pissed off snake in it and then shock the shite out of the dog when he goes to sniff the cage.
I assume it worked pretty well. More than one occasion we would be walking and he would stop and you couldn't get him to continue in that direction. I'm guessing he smelled a rattler nearby.
This post was edited on 9/6/14 at 10:46 pm
Posted on 9/6/14 at 11:02 pm to Cactus Tiger
I was bitten on the wrist by a cottonmouth about 8 years ago running crawfish traps. Big ole motherfricker that scared the shite out of me when I pulled the basket up. He had a small bream in his mouth when I laid the basket on my tray and I had some thick leather gloves on so I reached in to grab him and throw him out. Bad move. He let go of the bream and struck right at the edge of my glove and pierced through barely into my wrist. Through him off and immediately headed back to the levee and walked to the truck to get a bottle of water. My hand started to swell a little (after about 10 min) and my buddy and I figured that it was a fairly dry bite because of the fish in his mouth right before he bit me. I got a little nauseous and would have gone to the hospital if my hand had swolen anymore than what it was, but I figured I had just gotten a tetanus shot a few wks prior so wasnt worried about infection as long as I took care of the two small punctures. I watched it the next couple of days but never really got any worse and I was fine.
Posted on 9/7/14 at 12:46 am to TheIndulger
Step sister got bit by a rattler (not sure what kind) near her camp in Lacombe years ago. She was walking barefoot in the piney woods. All I remember her telling me was that they were sticking needles in the bottom of her foot... 
Posted on 9/7/14 at 4:33 am to bleeng
My uncle, cousin, and I all were bit in the same part of rice field over a 5 year span. Cousin was bit by a cottonmouth. Uncle and I by water snakes. Scared the shite outta me, but wasn't worse than a wasp sting as far as pain
Posted on 9/7/14 at 8:27 am to Hogtastic Voyage
I've been bitten by more non-venomous snakes than I can count, since I've been catching them since around age 6 or 7. The largest was a 6'4" rat snake, and I'd take 10 bites from one of those over a wasp sting.
Posted on 9/7/14 at 8:56 am to TheIndulger
Grandmother was bitten by a water moccasin while playing in the creek. Damn near killed her.
Posted on 9/7/14 at 9:18 am to CrimsonChin
A friend of mine waas fishing in lake Maurpaus. He put his small anchor inside a cypress stump and when he went to leave, it got stuck.
Se where I'm going with this?
He reached inside the stump without looking into it to wiggle it free.
According to his family and the Dr's, he received 9 deep bites from a Cotton Mouth.
They say he has the record for total anti venom shots received and still lived.
He was placed in a induced coma for a week.
True story. Arm looks like he put it in a sausage grinder.
Se where I'm going with this?
He reached inside the stump without looking into it to wiggle it free.
According to his family and the Dr's, he received 9 deep bites from a Cotton Mouth.
They say he has the record for total anti venom shots received and still lived.
He was placed in a induced coma for a week.
True story. Arm looks like he put it in a sausage grinder.
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