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RE: Help Muffdaddy Fight The Power
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by tigers9 on April 6, 2008
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Cro,to explain.
I was quoting 2 articles, one from CA that said that there will be more snakes this year because supposedly population of bugs/lizards/rodents is higher and that might bring snakes and therefore more biting encounters. I seem to agree with more snakes this year as I am seeing more of them here already with my own eyes, the more bites was just a news quote:
http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/adelanto_5705___article.html/coming_season.html
Then I quoted a different news from AZ that claimed
http://www.havasunews.com/articles/2008/03/19/news/doc47e1e4aee71e5138374490.txt
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The Mojave Green is considered the most toxic rattlesnake in the world.>>
And I was questioning if it was correct news reporting, if indeed black mamba or fer de lance were not more ‘toxic’?
As for my attire, I wear high leather boots with rubber sole , gives me more stability when leash walking big cats and also protect from rattlesnakes.
It also has no shoe laces for cats to play with and knock me down if one day they decided it was ‘fun’ toy.Also no jewelry, as they might get attracted to the sparkle and I don’t want any lion teeth with lion still attached to them hanging from my finger stuck on the ring.
Z
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by tigers9 on April 6, 2008
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I still remember my 1st encounter with wild rattlesnake. I just moved to the USA and wanted to see all the national parks, wild west, etc.
It was summer in late 1980s and we were traveling thru SW Nebraska, which is basically in the middle of nowhere.
We stopped at the rest stop or some view area or whatever, and I was only wearing open shoes and shorts, and I just went walking into the countryside.
I came from Czechoslovakia, there is one venomous snake living there but I never met one, so I had no experience with venomous snakes at all, so I was not very bright/experienced in this respect.
Then I hear this rattle, I look down, wearing only flip-flops, and there is this huge rattler in strike position rattling loud one foot away from my feet, and I am like, frozen, OMG, WTF, what do I do now????
After what seemed like eternity of standing there, I run away as fast as I could, and then looked at the big warning signs at the stop/view area saying ‘rattlesnake country’.
I was brand new to the USA not speaking much English, and dirty words like WTF are the ones you learn first (since everybody is using them) before you learn the word rattlesnake.
Z
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RE: Help Muffdaddy Fight The Power
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by Cro on April 6, 2008
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Z, the leather boots sound like a good idea when working with the Rattlesnake Video.
In the article, they said "The Mojave Green is considered the most toxic ""rattlesnake"" in the world." There are many other venomous snakes in the world that are not rattlesnakes that are more dangerous.
The key word being "rattlesnake," however there are other experts who would not agree with that also, as it kind of depends on what the meaning of the word "toxic" is. (that sounds dangerously like something billy boy clinton would say, LOL).
The Mojave Green Rattlesnake is no doubt one of the most dangerous rattlesnakes in the country, as it has a nasty venom, but there are others like the big Eastern and Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes that can deliver a huge, huge dose of venom. And there are populations of Canebrake Rattlesnakes and Southern Pacific Rattlesnakes that have some very nasty venoms, that will kill someone just as quickly, if not even quicker. Dead is dead, wether you get hit by a train or a cement truck or a metiorite falling from the sky !
I really hate this propensity that humans seem to have to want to label something "the most deadly" or "the most toxic" or "the most dangerous" or "the fastest" or "the slowest" or "the heaviest" etc, etc, etc.....
As far as the California statement about there beign more bugs/lizards/rodents, are those bugs /lizards/ and rodents just in folks backyards, or are they scattered throughout the range of the snakes? If a rattlesnake is living up in some rock canyon, and has more food than usual, why would it leave to someones backyard ?
Sounds like the kind of statement someone would make when a news person sticks a microphone in their face.
If there are indeed more bites, it is probably because more people are going into the backcountry where most of the snakes are.
Snakes do not suddenly materialize out of the landscape in larger numbers just because there are more bugs/lizards/ or rodents. However, there might be somewhat larger numbers of snakes in years when there have been milder winters before, as there is some mortality of hibernating snakes due to a more severe winter.
Hope this helps.
Best Regards JohnZ
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by earthguy on April 7, 2008
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Dang! I was working all weekend, so here I am trying to scan through posts to get caught up. All I got from this one is Bikini...leather boots...rattlesnakes...youtube
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