Venomoid Question

[Joel La Rocque]

There is a discrepancy due to not updating every file I am on and frankly I feel that is not necessary because not that many people care so why bother. I have records on disk for the past 9 years, as far as milking snakes I averaged out to 57 snakes a day, maybe some can do more then that, I can not sorry! There is a lot more to simply grabbing a snake and throwing it back in just to grab another one. Even if a snake is not to be milked it has to be maintained lets say ten snakes a day take a dump? I clean that so now we are up to 67 snakes a day. I have been working with VENEMOUS snakes for a grand total of 36 years now (That's exclusively venomous) I am 59 years old and started my work in July of 1969 at the age of 19, I received my first bite in 1972 in the field by stepping on a cottonmouth in South West Georgia that got me interested in venomous. lets go with the 67 snakes a day say 6 days a week for 36 years although I work 7 days a week 85% of the time but I digress. OK 313 days of the year I am found working X 50 snakes a day ( There are days that are +- so I deducted 17 snakes per day comes to 15.650 snakes a year at least. X 33 years (I knocked off 3 years because I had people working with me who were more experienced then myself so I feel that's about right) and if my math is right it comes to 60.545 snakes over my life time and you want to bicker over a total of 55 tags (two in the field). I have no time to continue with this, I asked to get onto some other subject but you insist on remaining here. For get it, my time is valuable to me, I came here to break up the monotony of being retired but there will always be some wet behind the erars kid who dreams of replacing the older dog. You don't have to fight me to do that, take the spot, its yours. I don't know your name but to all who are listening "This guy knows more them me and he is by far more experienced then I am so please listen to him. see, it was easy.

[jparker1167]

Originally Posted by Joel La Rocque

I came here to break up the monotony of being retired but there will always be some wet behind the erars kid who dreams of replacing the older dog. You don't have to fight me to do that, take the spot, its yours. I don't know your name but to all who are listening "This guy knows more them me and he is by far more experienced then I am so please listen to him. see, it was easy.

joel are you talking about me in that post? lol wet behind the ear kid. i guess i have not kept venomous for as long as you, but i also have not been bit either. no one is better then anyone else, everyone has their ways of doing stuff. but you just seem to think you are better. telling people that they are not ready to handle a puff adder. because they have only 6 years of experience handling cobras and gaboons. then you always seem to throw it out that you have taken 57 bites in 40 years like that has anything to do with how capable the other person is at handling hots. it looks like you believe the snakes love you and enjoy your company with the comments you make like this one

"I truly believe that constant contact, even if is only face to face from behind the glass is one of the most important aspects of NOT becoming a bite victim."

it would seem to me that it has not worked for you over the last 40 years. you seem to think that talking about how you will reach in a cage and pick up a venomous snake and walk around the room is something that should gain respect, i believe that its shows a lack of respect for the snakes and does nothing to benefit you the snake or any venomous keeper, the last thing we need is another bite to get news attention.

you also believe that anyone that wants to keep a venomous snake should have to take a good bite from one first. right? not to be mean but that is the dumbest thing i have ever read. what would that do to help anyone ? i don't understand the point in that at all. what if the person die or had to have a limb amputated? you are the only venomous keeper i have ever seen tell people they should take a bite instead of preventing it.

i guess we will just have to disagree.