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    Dizzy Re: Why I don't live in New Mexico

    Yep. ^

    Awhile back, I heard about a lady walking somewhere in NM, she stepped on a mama & 5 baby rattlers, wearing sandals

    Babies are actually worse than adults, venom-wise?
    She was hospitalized for weeks, had to be in a walker for a while.

    Ooh, nothing like worrying about a snake come at you in the air!!!


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    I read that adult rattlesnakes limit the amount of venom they inject, to preserve it. Babies don't know how to do that. Now in NM, we have to not only watch where we step, but watch out for flying ones too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by whirlerz View Post
    Babies are actually worse than adults, venom-wise?
    Yeah, no joke, there. Adults don't want to waste Venom, might need it down the line. And an Adult will only hit you with just enough Venom to get you to go away. Babies will hit you with everything they've got! You're going to get an ASSLOAD of Venom if you get bit by a baby.

    We have Rattlers here in Missouri. I tried to learn about them (to get AWAY from them)

    Edit to add: Don't get me wrong, i don't want the Snakes dead. They are living things. But i don't want to be dead either.
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    Cottonmouths, as well. All these goddamned Snakes.
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    This is a bit much, but i have a story about a Snake.

    This wasn't long ago, but i'm sleeping. My Mom starts throwing a fit (My mom lives with me, i don't live with her, there's a difference, I moved her into my house, she has COPD and i look after her). I go out there wondering what's up and there a fucking Garden Snake in the middle of the floor. My Mom's got a broom ready to kill this thing. I stop her, and sweep this thing into a box. I drop the thing off in the back yard.

    But that's not the end of the story.

    About two days later i hear a scream from mom's room. I go RUNNING in there, terrified. And she's standing over the same fucking Snake.

    I swept it into another bok and took it to the PARK and let it go there.

    Smooth sailing since then.

    But it was a bit of a Hassle...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raziel View Post

    We have Rattlers here in Missouri. I tried to learn about them (to get AWAY from them)

    Edit to add: Don't get me wrong, i don't want the Snakes dead. They are living things. But i don't want to be dead either.
    Yes. I also read about this guy who went wading in a river, I forget where, the water wasn't clear.

    He got bit by (I don't remember what kind) a snake, he said he didn't want to spend the $ for emergency services, the next day he was dead. In his 30's.

    Im in IL, we have garter snakes, which I'm glad of.. They need to avail themselves to the mice running around..
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    We do have 2 type of venomous snakes, way down state . They wouldn't survive the winter here
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    Probably a Cotton or maybe a Water Moccasin (we have those here, too. Missouri is overrun with goddamn snakes). Rattlers don't swim.
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    Both "water moccasin" and "cottonmouth" are common names for Agkistrodon piscivorus, according to Sara Viernum, a herpetologist based in Madison, Wisconsin. "The name 'cottonmouth' comes from the white coloration of the inside of the snake's mouth," she said. Other local names include black moccasin, gaper, mangrove rattler, snap jaw, stub-tail snake, swamp lion, trap jaw, water mamba and water pilot.

    https://www.livescience.com/43597-fa...th-snakes.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by whirlerz View Post
    Yes. I also read about this guy who went wading in a river, I forget where, the water wasn't clear.

    He got bit by (I don't remember what kind) a snake, he said he didn't want to spend the $ for emergency services, the next day he was dead. In his 30's.

    Im in IL, we have garter snakes, which I'm glad of.. They need to avail themselves to the mice running around.
    Garter snakes, like all snakes, are carnivorous. Their diet consists of almost any creature they are capable of overpowering: slugs, earthworms (nightcrawlers, as red wigglers are toxic to garter snakes), leeches, lizards, amphibians (including frog eggs), minnows, and rodents. When living near water, they will eat other aquatic animals. The ribbon snake (Thamnophis sauritus) in particular favors frogs (including tadpoles), readily eating them despite their strong chemical defenses. Food is swallowed whole. Garter snakes often adapt to eating whatever they can find and whenever they can find it because food can be either scarce or abundant. Although they feed mostly on live animals, they will sometimes eat eggs.


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    The one I saw, was dark w/thin yellow stripes. I've also seen plain back ones.


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    What about FL! They have venomous, & the pythons, (recently 17ft one caught). They overrun the Everglades. Nasty.


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    The Pythons in FL are loose because someone had one, and it just got too fucking big! And the owner just couldn't bring himself to kill it. So he let it go in the swamp
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    Right, I know.. like you said, they're living things, but they're destroying the eco balance there.


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    But then grab them up and fly them to Burma. Leave them there.

    This is the only life the Snake is ever gonna have, and it's not right to take it from it. But get it the fuck out of Florida.
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    Pythons should be banned as pets.

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    Even killing a rattlesnake isn't going to stop it.


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    Pythons should be banned as pets.
    Yeah, just like Chimpanzees. Leave them where they belong. Not locked up in a cage. A Chimp needs to be in AFRICA, not sitting on your couch drinking a beer watching cartoons.

    Would YOU or anyone else want to spend your life locked up in a cage for your entire life?

    But this thing is just being a Snake. We have to be Humans about it.
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    Scarier thought- bears and big cats can climb trees too. At least you can outrun a snake.

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    Yeah, but i stay outta the woods, so no Bears.

    Edit to add: Bears are actually remarkably tolerant of us. Brown Bears, for example, are amazingly tolerant of us. Once, a Woman was in Yellowstone and she was (stupidly) feeding the Bears. This Bear reared up (Probably showing off, because he didn't hurt her) and when it came back down it's claws caught her shirt, ripping it and exposing her breasts. This Woman freaked out, she called the park rangers and DEMANDED that they kill that Bear. Once they got there they were like "No, don't feed the fucking Bears." (Paraphrasing here)

    Ever see the Doc "Grizzly Man"? If not, watch it. This guy used to go up and HUG Grizzly Bears! And most of them were cool with it. This is a HUGE animal. They would LICK HIS FACE and shit. It's mind boggling. Sure, one of them killed him, but there's always an Asshole.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raziel View Post
    Yeah, but i stay outta the woods, so no Bears.

    Edit to add: Bears are actually remarkably tolerant of us. Brown Bears, for example, are amazingly tolerant of us. Once, a Woman was in Yellowstone and she was (stupidly) feeding the Bears. This Bear reared up (Probably showing off, because he didn't hurt her) and when it came back down it's claws caught her shirt, ripping it and exposing her breasts. This Woman freaked out, she called the park rangers and DEMANDED that they kill that Bear. Once they got there they were like "No, don't feed the fucking Bears." (Paraphrasing here)

    Ever see the Doc "Grizzly Man"? If not, watch it. This guy used to go up and HUG Grizzly Bears! And most of them were cool with it. This is a HUGE animal. They would LICK HIS FACE and shit. It's mind boggling. Sure, one of them killed him, but there's always an Asshole.

    lol @ "there's always an a-hole"

    Livestock and large breed dogs can also accidentally injure people- I wish people in Westernized nations wouldn't believe the Disney version of the animal kingdom.

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    According to them, this was a VERY dangerous Bear that killed him and his girl. Unlike the rest of the Bears that were there. First off, he was still out when all the other bears were someplace hibernating. Maybe he had rabies or something. But there was something different about this bear.

    Edit to add: BUT, i think he was kinda nuts, anyway. Who the fuck goes and hugs a Grizzly? Sooner or later you're asking to die.
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    Would you HUG a Lion? Fuck no for me. I don't want to wind up as SHIT ON THE GROUND. That thing will EAT you, and poop you out.

    I wouldn't hug a bear either. NO FUCKING WAY. Absolutely not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raziel View Post
    According to them, this was a VERY dangerous Bear that killed him and his girl. Unlike the rest of the Bears that were there. First off, he was still out when all the other bears were someplace hibernating. Maybe he had rabies or something. But there was something different about this bear.

    Edit to add: BUT, i think he was kinda nuts, anyway. Who the fuck goes and hugs a Grizzly? Sooner or later you're asking to die.
    All it takes is a swipe of a bear paw to kill an adult human.

    & As for horses or livestock, they weigh enough to crush or suffocate an adult.

    Important to remember- wildlife is wild, and Nature doesn't favor human existence, it's just *there.*

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