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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We are so sad to hear that The mighty Frank the
Tank and Hector have both made their journeys to the bridge. Heart healing
drool is being sent out from Colt & Ruger to their families. May they live
forever in the magic of your memories. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Healing drool to anyone or hound that is sick or
injured. The boyz are hitting the chicken jerky in order to send out chicken
drool to help heal what ailes you. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We live in the Gulf coast of Florida, luckily in
town so the majority of our snakes are gardner snakes. The posionous snakes
usually don't like the heavily populated areas, to many things to disturb
them, think of them as hermites or loners. Plus most of them eat
mice or rats, so unless you have a lot of those around you shouldn't have
very many posionous snakes. But if the hurricane hits, it always drives
the other snakes up to dryer ground. We have Rattlers, water moccasians, corals,
and I believe cotton mouths around here. A water moccasian is not to be toyed
with, they will chase you just to bite you. Rattlers just want to be left
alone, so as long as they don't feel threatened they will leave you alone...they
will give you a warning rattle to get you to back off. Unless of course you
startle them, by stepping on them or something to that nature. Adult
rattlers can control their venom and usually...only release it if you are small
enough for them to eat or only give enough venomon to give them time to get
away. Most rattlesnakes bites are what is called a dry bite. But like any
other animal bite needs to be treated because of the bacteria and other cooties
in animals & humans mouthes that can cause a serious infection. Now baby
rattlers are a different story as they can not control their venom and release
all they have of it with every bite. Baby rattlers are more deadly because
of this than adults. However....none of this changes that fact that
if you or your dog gets bitten, you need to get to a doctor and fast, because
you don't know if it was a dry bite or not. Try to identify the snake as
best you can, phone cameras are great for this, so that you can tell
or better yet show the doc what type of snake it was so that they can administer
the proper antivenom. Also note, that a dead snake can still bite you or
your pet!!! Even a dead snake whith the head cut off, the head can still
bite! The nerves for the bite reflex are very strong and can live for
a long time even after the body is dead or seperated from the head! Make
sure that the snake is cold and dead before you go messing with it...or better
yet...don't mess with it! Unless with very long tongs, shovel or something
that keeps you a safe distance from the snake.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dogs that go after snakes: I saw an episode of the
Dog Whisper where he had a case of a dog that would hunt snakes in a rattle
snake infested area. To train the dog not to do this he used a shock
collar. Now I hate these things!!! But in this case, a possible life and
death issue. I see the value in it. Especially trying to curb a hunting
dogs instinct to hunt. And I was shocked (no pun intended) to see Ceaser
use it...I've watched alot of his shows and this was the only time I ever saw
him use a shock collar. But he had a professional snake handler bring out
a rattler in a plexi-glass box, set it down in a natural enviorment for the
snake (still in the box) the box had air holes in it for the snake to breath and
for the dog to be able to smell it. Every time the dog went near the snake and
it would rattle, they shocked him. At first at the lowest electrical setting and
gradually upping the voltage until the dog would turn and walk away from the
snake the moment it started rattling. They did this several times, using
different locations for the snake, after 3 or four times the dog would smell the
snake, and turn around and go the other direction...before the snake ever felt
threatened and would give the warning rattle...no shock for doggie equals no
snake bite either. Like I said I don't like shock collars but in extreme
cases, or in cases I have tried every other avenue to break a dog from doing
something that could be dangerous, I would use it. Like hunting posionous
snakes, chasing cars, etc. I've never had to use a collar but I have had
to use an electric fencing to keep a hound inside the fenced yard to keeping him
from going to visit the moo cows down the road. I tried everything that I
could think of, talked to dog trainers too, nothing kept this hound in and
the Farmer thought that he was chasing the cows and threatened to
kill him. I hated it, but sometimes you have to do those things in order
to keep a stubborn hound safe.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Love and drool to all</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Michele Momma to the Bad A** Basset Brothers Colt
& Ruger</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Women are Angels...And when someone breaks their
wings..They simply continue to fly....on a broomstick...They are flexible like
that...<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>