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Got me 'nuther rattl'r tonite!
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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 176236" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>I'm wondering, after your bragging about your exploits of the past few weeks, if they haven't taken out a hit on you!</p><p></p><p>Actually, rattlers really DON'T want to bite you. It takes a rattler about two weeks to make enough venom to kill a mouse.</p><p></p><p>Most rattler bites are actually "dry" bites (no venom injected). If you are too big to swallow and a rattler envenomates you, s/he's gonna go hungry until s/he can make enough venom to kill a meal.</p><p></p><p>When late husband and I lived in TN in the early 80's, we shared ground with a huge canebrake (Eastern Diamondback) rattler who liked to bask on a rock on the firebreak that seperated our property from an Army base's "back 40" (like 40K of woodlands).</p><p></p><p>We got to the point where we'd see him on his rock, and stomp our feet walking up so he felt the vibrations and had time to leave.</p><p></p><p>HE got to the point where he didn't even coil and rattle at us. He'd just go "Humph!" and slither off into the brush and wait for us to leave.</p><p></p><p>I don't have any friendly rattlers hanging around up here in the Northwoods, but I do have an enormous ratsnake that lives under my trailer and likes to bask in my driveway.</p><p></p><p>I just step over her.</p><p></p><p>She's gotten so used to me that I can shoo her out of the way physically before backing my truck out, without her freaking out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 176236, member: 1963"] I'm wondering, after your bragging about your exploits of the past few weeks, if they haven't taken out a hit on you! Actually, rattlers really DON'T want to bite you. It takes a rattler about two weeks to make enough venom to kill a mouse. Most rattler bites are actually "dry" bites (no venom injected). If you are too big to swallow and a rattler envenomates you, s/he's gonna go hungry until s/he can make enough venom to kill a meal. When late husband and I lived in TN in the early 80's, we shared ground with a huge canebrake (Eastern Diamondback) rattler who liked to bask on a rock on the firebreak that seperated our property from an Army base's "back 40" (like 40K of woodlands). We got to the point where we'd see him on his rock, and stomp our feet walking up so he felt the vibrations and had time to leave. HE got to the point where he didn't even coil and rattle at us. He'd just go "Humph!" and slither off into the brush and wait for us to leave. I don't have any friendly rattlers hanging around up here in the Northwoods, but I do have an enormous ratsnake that lives under my trailer and likes to bask in my driveway. I just step over her. She's gotten so used to me that I can shoo her out of the way physically before backing my truck out, without her freaking out. [/QUOTE]
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