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by Bud on January 3, 2002
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Now Thats a bad bite! no arguments here.
Entubated due to the neurotoxcity
a large atrox bite is like 20+ pigmy bites.
give or take a few.
bill
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by TAIPAN78 on January 3, 2002
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Wow!!! Im glad you made it without loss of limb and or life!! Yikes!! Outa all the snakes in the world, C.atrox would have to be in my top five, NEVER GET NAILED BY snakes! Those huge fangs, massive venom yeild and potent venom just make for one horrible enveomation. Thank you very much for shareing your experience and hope everyone who reads this walks away with a new apprecation for this very commonly kept species of rattlesnake.
Later,
Jeremy
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by Buzztail1 on January 3, 2002
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DAMN!!!
That is certainly enough to cause one to pause and think "Am I being as safe as I could be?"
I am happy that both you and the snake survived. Not everyone gets to survive that particular lesson. Thank you for sharing your painful ordeal with us.
Karl
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by Crotalus on January 3, 2002
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Wow ... some bite. Glad all finally worked out and no harm was done to the snake.
I keep a variety of large Crotalus , but never had the desire to mess with atrox. I've had three good friends, two who were experianced handlers/keepers of many venomous snakes, get bad bites by atrox. I've heard many other bites from this species on experiance keepers, and all were horror stories.
I don't know .... atrox seem to be winning. Possibly a pact they have among themselves as a species to get back at us whenever they can for the years of the rattlesnake roundups and getting shot in cowboy movies.
Glad to hear you pulled through and best of luck in the future. Try to restrain yourself from picking up seven foot rattlesnakes by the tail in the future.
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by newggtongs on January 4, 2002
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Glad you made it through ok,
I thought I would use this space to tell you all about something I saw on tv the other day,
Te show was "real tv" they showed a segment of a guy who kept a 4 ft C.Atrox in a ten gallon tank with a screen lid in his living room. He got the snake out to show off to the camcorder. He tailed it and used a pink plastic hanger as a hook. Then he got down on his the floor and let the snake go up his arm, and, Big Suprise! He got bolth fangs in the wrist and spent the next week in intensive care.
This is true!
Be safe,
Darren
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by Ambrosia on January 7, 2002
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This bite was a learning experience for us all. Doctors were amazed by the sheer magnitude of it all. The amount of venom... alone was enough to kill a couple of people. Caution is now an extremely practiced method in our household as well as in the field.
M. Welch
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by explorer on January 31, 2002
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I'm terribly sorry about you're horrific encounter with that large rattler. In my opinion, holding a venomous snake by the tail is too big a risk. I'm not a herpetologist but have caught many poisonous snakes over the years having grown up in southeast Texas and south Louisiana. I learned from my father the consequences of handling poisonous snakes improperly as he was bitten by a large rattler between the index and middle finger while visiting west Texas. Hopefully the students who witnessed the bite will think twice about grabbing by the tail instead of securing the head!
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by badgertx on January 31, 2002
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I doubt any will ever try to pick up a venomous snake after that, but if they do, they will have a very good reminder of what can happen if not handled right.
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by NVENOM8 on June 5, 2002
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Dude!Your so lucky to be alive.I keep some very dangerous snakes and have for over 20 years,and thank my lucky stars I havent taken a bite.......yet.Great survival story.Brook Berntson
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