Snakes any worse in your area?

Lots of rattlers here in AZ. Part of my job is retrieving them when people find them around their house. Last few yeArs we've had millions. Lots of Sonoran gopher snakes (bull snake) too.
 
Haven't seen many, and the few I have seen were when I was fishing and they were just along the shore doing their own thing away from where anyone would see them if they weren't looking.
 
Not many snakes here the last few years as I usually see. Here, the most venomous (sp?) snake usually seen is the 2 legged kind. After that it is usually garter or brown snakes. I did see the 2 biggest browns that I have ever seen this year. One about 30 inches in my yard, the other about 24 inches in my house. wife was not pleased!
 
brothers lab was bit by a copper & vet said give him ibprofen & he was o.k. next day. when lab was bit by western diamond the bill including anti venom was 2700$. quite a bit of lavage with salt h2o for some weeks--she recovered & lived to 14. as to copperheads i would try to gut it since i'm not sensitive to scorpions or hornets. the parks & wildlife in texas said mossican is twice as strong as copperhead & diamondback is 4 times more potent as copper
dennis
 
I was camping on my property in S CO over Independence Day weekend, This sucker woke me up moving through the wood pile behind the tent.

Only one I've seen this year.


Prairie rattler, >4.5' counted 6 rattles and a button. Looks well feed.




It's my property, but it's his home


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The horse pile came from these guys :D

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Price: one of the big reasons that I didn't get antivenom for my copperhead bite. If it was a cottonmouth or timber, it would have been different.
 
I was under the impression the risk to reward was too great for the use of anti venom for the majority of copperhead bites. I ran into 3 Timbers so far this year, almost trampled one during a night hike to a primitive campsite on the AT. A full hit from a Timber would call for everything including the kitchen sink but never been bitten so could be wrong. On the pro side aggression isn't in their nature and will at times give dry bites.
 
From what I understand there were once several makers of anti-venom. All but a select few went out of business.

Hospitals are not about making people well, or helping with quality of life. They are like a McDonalds, a process in which one makes profit.

If the product or process they provide cannot provide a profit then they cease to carry it.

Anti-venom and rape kits are just 2 that I know off hand. They don't carry either at the majority of places because the people who NEED them don't have deep enough pockets.
 
hollowdweller said:
How are the snakes in your areas?
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Sleepy - it's winter here in Australia, which is a good thing considering our snakes tend towards the extremely deadly end of the scale. Our antivenom is free though and it's rare that people die from snake bites even from bites that will kill you dead in hours.
 
SamuraiDave said:
Hospitals are not about making people well, or helping with quality of life. They are like a McDonalds, a process in which one makes profit.

If the product or process they provide cannot provide a profit then they cease to carry it.
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That's true. I wonder if the fast food industry kills over 80,000 people per year. :D
 
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