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On Jan 15, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Bruce Weary DC wrote:

>  Hi D'Arcy--
>
>  You may have a point there, and you are clearly more compassionate 
> toward rattlesnakes than I am. However, there is no shortage of them 
> here, in fact there are trails I won't ride or hike in the depth of 
> summer due to their numbers. Because they are deadly, to humans and 
> horses alike, I think our first reaction in coming across one is one 
> of fight or flight. I'm betting the old man in the picture's first 
> thought wasn't: "Boy, the herpetologists are going to have a heyday 
> with this one!" Probably, he was thinking, "Where in the hell is my 
> shovel!!!!!!!!"     The snake was heard as saying, "I may not be the 
> baddest dude in the whole desert, but I'm in the top two. And my Daddy 
> is gettin' old." :>  Dr Q

I'm pretty laisez-faire about snakes but I got an appreciation of what 
an angry rattler can do when I was driving a car following my RV down a 
track as a week-long camp-out was clearing camp.  A big snake, 
obviously upset, reared up out of the grass like a snake charmers 
snake, and struck at the *top* of the RV's rear truck tire!





Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
ranch:  http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/


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