DirtyDon
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Post by DirtyDon on Jan 5, 2007 10:31:59 GMT -6
didn't know those wascal wabbits were so darn tough..
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Post by ogeezer on Jan 5, 2007 13:29:49 GMT -6
...my son was interested in reptiles, so one day I caught him a w. Diamondback and put it in a 55-gallon aquarium (turned terrium cause wouldn't hold water anymore) complete with HD lid, sand, cactus, etc. About every couple of months, using a live catch trap we'd put in a rat (caught in the barns) for a meal. Guess we fed the snake too much, cause after a while Mr. Crotalus atrox appetite wained (we didn't kno it), intro'd rat, left nature takes its course --- next morning, Mr Rat had devoured a big portion of the dorsal backbone of the rattler it had immobilized with four incisor attack on its spinal cord without killing the reptilian predator in the process. Case of prey animal justice, I guess...
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Post by ~WineMe~DineMe~69 on Jan 5, 2007 21:06:17 GMT -6
eeeeewwwwww thats gross ogeezer!
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Post by ogeezer on Jan 5, 2007 21:29:49 GMT -6
not anymoreso than when I used to feed a number of poisonous snakes --- held in captivity so I could extract their venom for a processing lab in Houston that made anti-venom. After having caught nearly every rodent in my area, had to hang over the train & road bridges over the Colorado River and other tributaries to collect baby birds (squabs and sparrow) just to keep my 50+ reptiles alive.
FYI - rattlesnakes, copperheads, water mocassins (cottonmouths) have hemotoxic poison that effects bloodstream & cardiovascular system; coral snakes possess a neurotoxic poison affecting nervous system (in extreme cases causes paralysis of the diaphram ... that body structure that permits one to breathe involuntarily) ... good thing about neurotoxic snakes is with rear fangs inside mouth, it has to chew on you to inject the venom.
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Post by ~WineMe~DineMe~69 on Jan 5, 2007 21:42:44 GMT -6
the next time i see a snake around here i'll just pm you ogeezer! ;D
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Post by ogeezer on Jan 5, 2007 22:37:49 GMT -6
that'll work, tho I'm no longer in that sideline business since having a run-in with the local yokels of the county mounty office (in the 1980s) cause of potential danger to residents in my area, fearful my herpetological fauna (which are indigenous around the area) mite escape & become an even greater risk to neighbors (closest is 3/8-mile away).
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