It is used in a lot of countries. The US has not ever approved it and the medical probably will not to much money might go away from the medical treatments they sale. If you get bitten by a pygmy rattle you have 1 hour to get to the anti venom. These devises that I know of are not a high voltage, I think I would shock myself 3 or 4 times around the bite thin start to medical help. Where I live it would be about an hour to get to where there is antivenom. I hope no one gets bitten, I have seen the damage it can do.
I have a friend that says there are only three kinds of snakes that scare him; live snakes, dead snakes, and sticks that look like snakes.
It's been about 30 hrs since the bite.
Jade is tired but doesn't seem to be in pain unless she tries to run and play with her brother.
Still very swollen. If it's gone down any , hard to tell.
Not sure what to expect.
Vet says give it until Thursday.
If the swelling hasn't obviously gotten better, she goes back to the doc.
Jade is tired but doesn't seem to be in pain unless she tries to run and play with her brother.
Still very swollen. If it's gone down any , hard to tell.
Not sure what to expect.
Vet says give it until Thursday.
If the swelling hasn't obviously gotten better, she goes back to the doc.
We had a guy at work that was so scared of snakes that he would back off if one took a broken V belt from a machine and waved it in front of him.
Someone got the idea to get one of the fake snakes in the trees the company put there so the starlings wouldn't roost in them.
They put the fake snake on the passenger side of his pickup attached to the driver side door so that when he opened the door, the snake would jump at him.
There was a couple dozen folks at the window at shift change watching him walk to his truck and open the door. OMG! He about fell down backing away and knew he had been had. He turned and I guess focused on my face in the window and here he came wanting to fight. We finally talked him down, but he never forgot. Probably get fired for that in the current woke work place.
Great news!
I have a friend who says snakes are only good for two things: belts and hat bands. He said he was hauling hay when he picked up a bale that had a (dead) copperhead sticking out of it; in one motion, he picked it up, saw the snake, and launched that 80lb bale completely over the stack on the trailer.
I sure hope she's better soon. I can tell you first hand, it sux to lose one.
Best wishes for her, and you.
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The dreaded brown bodied finger snuggler!
