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by bush_viper17 on April 6, 2005
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Jim Harrison and a few others warned me not to tail small venomous snakes. Well today I learned the hard way(almost) I had been walking all day looking for snakes. My friend found a beautiful baby canebrake rattlesnake in an awkward position. It was on a rock right beside a hole. It took off for the whole and I grabbed it by the tail and pulled it out. We were on a bank and I couldnt just drop it so I held on and ran for flat ground(which was about 4 feet away). It started wildly thrashing and missed my finger by less than a centimeter. The snake was only about 5 or 6 inches long. I sat it down and checked my hand to make sure I hadnt been bitten. Thankfully I hadnt. So I will say what they told me. Never tail a small venomous snake.
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Anonymous post on April 6, 2005
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Why on earth would you feel the need to tail a neonate Canebrake??!! I hope you know how neurotoxic their venom is. It has been known to shut your body down in under 10 minutes. Jeremy, there is no need to take un safe risks like that. When does the thrill seeking stop, I guess when someone ends up dead.
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by bush_viper17 on April 6, 2005
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Yeah, some canebrakes have up to 37% neurotoxin. I am obviously not going to do it anymore. Sometimes I wish it would have bit and killed me.
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by Cro on April 6, 2005
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Jeremy: They are fast little boogers, arnt' they ? Good to hear that you were not bitten, and learned something in the process. Small venomous snakes are way different from the big ones.
I once watched a South Georgia snake catcher do the same thing with a baby EDB, and it nailed him. Then I watched the swelling and discoloration progress. The funny thing was he kept talking, and kept looking at his hand, and kept saying it did not get him, then he would look at his hand again, and the swelling increased, and the discoloration, but he would never say he was bitten. He just kept saying it missed him. Well, we left, and I guess he got treatment, as when we saw him a couple months later, he was still alive, and had all his fingers, although there was still some swelling and discoloration evident.
Be carefull out there! Best Regards JohnZ
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by bush_viper17 on April 6, 2005
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It was just one of those things where you havent seen one all winter. You look for a few days. Youre in good habitat, your friend yells "canebrake" you come running over and before you get to look at it good it is already heading for the hole and you dont have any tools with you. The first thing I said after I dropped it was Please never let me do that again. The funny thing was that after nearly getting bitten trying to catch it I just let it go a few minutes later. I never take timber/canebrakes out of the wild anymore. This is a good sign. My friend and I are the only ones who know of this spot and we are never going to give this place away. Its doing good and I am happy to see the babies crawling around.
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by emtnurse on April 6, 2005
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Jermey, you talk alot about dying and being killed in this post and others. Why is that?? I do not understand. I mean this in a nice way, but man you sound like you are depressed or have a psycho-social issue.
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by John316 on April 6, 2005
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From this experience and previous posts I think it has to do with being young. I personally long for those days of being carefree, indestructable, immortal and hot tempered.
Remember death is not a side effect, it is pretty much permanent LOL!
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