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18-02-2016, 11:28 #221
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Re: Snake season is here!
Agreed. We treat the symptoms, not the snake. Can you imagine walking into the ER carrying the snake in a bag? Should be fun
The analogy I use is the pedestrian accident. A guy gets hit by a car, we don't ask him whether it was a Mazda or a Toyota, whether it was a blue car or a red car. We just treat the injuries
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18-02-2016, 11:32 #222
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Yup. Find it and fix it. Sometimes simple works.
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18-02-2016, 11:35 #223
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Yes could be fun plus you now have the potential of two people being bitten if someone tries to catch or kill the snake.
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18-02-2016, 13:00 #224
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Also then the hospital calls me to come and id the blerrie snake. I have been on a consult at a hospital where a patient showed symptoms of being bitten by neurotoxic snake but had the dead snake with him
Was a brown house. Powers of the mind hey
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18-02-2016, 13:19 #225
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Saw some pics of some brown house snake bites on the course one was particularly bad really tore up the hand and fingers needed a huge amount of stitches not a nice bite at all.
We had one in the class that was pretty keen on biting and the handler had a lot of respect for that house snake .
I am building up the courage to do the advanced handling course but its taking a long time !!!
You get to do tubing, necking and tailing with the snakes and that includes the black mamba and cape cobra.
I am not really too concerned for the cape cobra but the mamba really really scares me.
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18-02-2016, 13:39 #226
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18-02-2016, 17:15 #227
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Had a rather nice adult male Boomslang (Black / Yellow) slither though our property this afternoon.
Gave the staff a lot of excitement.
Damn they can move fast when they want to... the snake that is.
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18-02-2016, 17:30 #228
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I think the black/yellow Boomslang is one of the most stunning looking snakes.
They used to have a beautiful one in the little reptile park at Mabula not sure if its still there as havn't been there for a while.
Yes they are really quick and agile they love to come back up the tongs towards you
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05-09-2017, 09:36 #229
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Necro post revival
Had a run in with a large pofadder (1,2m ish) this weekend. 3 kids and 3 dogs on-site. Redelinghuys area.
We did the right thing. Catch and release.
Never knew they were that quick....
Fun times
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11-09-2017, 13:51 #230
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