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No tecpat, one big question does not stick out. It is just your attempts to try and make someone look foolish.
Making a lot of assumptions and attempting to give medical advice. Thanks for the URL, that doesn't help a person after the fact.
And your final "Sorry, but this is a very stupid way to deal with a snakebite" is kind of sickening to me.
Why don't you knock it off already.
Rich
You can bait me all you want, Rich....have at it... I could care less.
I didn't make a "lot of assumptions", and only responded to what I read in HW's post..... on the OP's topic, by the way, as opposed to criticizing other peoples posts, thoughts and ideas.
Are you suggesting that NOT treating a venomous snakebite until the next day is a sensible (non-foolish) way of dealing with this very unfortunate incident? People who read this thread could get the wrong idea , don't you think? Further, I didn't attempt to give medical advice... I only wondered when common sense took a holiday.
Given the antagonistic nature of this and related threads, I thought that if I said anything that might be construed as negative, I should back it up with facts, thus the link. Feel free to ignore it or any other medical information links I might post. The person who was actually bitten isn't reading this, as far as I know, so there is no "after the fact" advice to that person or any personal criticism of him, poor guy, only of his potentially dangerous (non)actions. Many people who DO read the rattlesnake posts, like those who have just moved to the SW from the East Coast, may benefit from knowing what to do if bitten, so I thought that was a second reason to include a link to medical information. Sorry 'bout that, Chief.
My final sentence is not a fraction as sickening as an (unneccessarily) untreated rattlesnake wound. Maybe HW will post one of his pics for us all to contemplate it.
I love snakes. I put a dead one in my ex mother in laws mailbox one time. I wish I could have seen her face but my imagination is good enough on that one. She quit messing me me after that.
however...bee careful of "those" that love all the animal's that live, walk, fly, bite, sting, chomp, swim, crawl (ex's excluded), on this planet... as most of those folk's think it's ok to have one or more of them running amuck in around there house, property, garden, vehicle or...
They might tune onto this thread and the bashing really gets going again..
My friend how was bitten the other day, well, his dog was bitten and survived after going to the vet..
Vet says give benedryl...as a medic this is a good first line drug for allergies etc.
Keep this thread going it's a hit...
Oh, I saw a bull snake on the road the other day, easy to tell, they are long and DO NOT HAVE RATTLES ETC..and served to avoid him...
Do we need a thread for Scorpions...I am one...born in NOV..
While my rattlers are Texas born and bred, I can still comment (right? ) on NM rattlers. I have a dog sanctuary, have some dogs that are very good "snake dogs" (meaning they alert to a snake), many dogs bitten by rattlers and copperheads, most survive, but have lost a few as well. Sad.
but I am all for keeping the "good" snakes. Even though I have a dog rescue, I am not a humaniac. The bad snakes go, the good snakes stay, if you catch my drift.
Had to laugh out loud at the post re: Scorpions because that is one's horror-scope sign. HAHAHAHHAHA!! Good one. People, remind me some time to tell you when I coaxed my little brother to pick up a copperhead... (he did not know it was a copperhead - and hell, "little" brother - he was at least 16 at the time. His own dang fault for listening to older sis).
TAJ
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The OFFICIAL New Mexico Rattlesnake Thread
re the New Topic...it's great...
as most of those folk's think it's ok to have one or more of them running amuck in around there house, property, garden, vehicle or...
) on NM rattlers. I have a dog sanctuary, have some dogs that are very good "snake dogs" (meaning they alert to a snake), many dogs bitten by rattlers and copperheads, most survive, but have lost a few as well. Sad. 
