Kenyan Sand Boa - Page 4

theapexgerman · 02-27-12, 12:31 AM

you can try and fight but every one loses in scotsdale cause the people that live there has some deep pockets bill gates got a big house there and quite of bit movie stars live there so does athleats for a apartment there its like 2000$ a month and that doesn't include the utilitys and in phoenix you can get a nice apartment for under 800$ month and in my opion looks better and you get every thing included I stay out of scotsdale but most of my cleints are in scotsdale they pay good for a PI witch is what my new profesion is

Caylan · 02-27-12, 12:37 AM

I wouldn't be able to fight it myself, and I wouldn't be able to use money so my methods wouldn't likely be legal if I were to try. Regardless, its just unfortunate that the rattlers are getting shafted in my opinion. They just aren't respected as the amazing predators they are over there... if they had a clue they would figure something out to deter them from coming into peoples homes, not just allow you to kill the ones that do... that solves absolutely nothing.... I just hope they all get bit as many times as possible in the process if that's how they want to do things...

theapexgerman · 02-27-12, 12:40 AM

in recent years only kids are getting bit they don't listen half of the time but I did figure out a way to keep them out some what I keep my house around 60 degress and in the summer time its been helping but I got all of my walls sealed there's like no openings and they still find a way to get in my house I can say this bout them they very smart bout getting into houses lol

Caylan · 02-27-12, 01:18 AM

Kids that dumb are just getting picked off by natural selection, I see nothing wrong with that... or is that too harsh? I was that dumb but I never got bit... not that I've learned my lesson or anything yet lol. Bet most of the kids don't touch them any more though. I wish I could keep my house 60* all summer, that would awesome!! I'm not sure how they are getting in, but I assume there's a rather visible spot somewhere that you've missed. Otherwise I see them just parking themselves next to your place, not inside... but then I don't really know rattlers, I can't see them making their way into a sealed house. How many AC units do you have going lol?

theapexgerman · 02-27-12, 01:27 AM

I got my central heating and cooling on top of my house and then a windo ac unit in all rooms cept kitchen my eletric bill is more than my house payemnt and car insurance put together in the summer time but my house is almost pay off I pay every month around 4 grand and that includes everything besides food for the house and gas I bring home between 2 grand to 4 grand and Jessica brings home almost the same as me so between the both of us we get like 1 or 2 grand a month for play money and now that I got my PI licesnse I can finaly work on my time for my self I had to work fopr a private invistigator firm now I can do it on mine home so I can charge what I want

And as for getting in my house I don't got a clue I even had some one come and do a second look so I got no clue and yea kids do need to get pick off but they give the rattle snakes a bad rep when getting bite

Caylan · 02-27-12, 01:49 AM

Yeah thats what I figured lol, man I would love to be able to do that... some day! Cool you got all your financials in order, thats good to hear. Remember to keep an account for vets! Private investigator eh? That sounds really cool actually!
I'd take a rattler over most kids myself... in fact probably almost any kid but my own(if I have one).... we don't usually get along lol. Rattlers have a bad reputation regardless, they might as well make use of it...

theapexgerman · 02-27-12, 01:58 AM

yea bein a PI gives me some cool stuff I can't get into trouble for stalking some one but I'm just any one else wwith a few extras goodies PI school is cheap likes 3 months it cost me 4 grand but only paid like 800 bucks after I got a grant when I hit 18 I got a lot of money some college fund my parents put up for me but if I didn't. Go to college I wouldn't get it so any type of school would wok so I went into the police school still in it but its on hold atm so I went to PI school lot funner and pays way more but after you gradurate from it you got to work 700 hours for a company before you can go on your own and yea I got money saveing for vet bills when I got bit I wasn't doing nothing stupid but as soon as I go into take a leak bam got hit from under the sink it hurt like hell

Caylan · 02-27-12, 02:37 AM

Can't get in trouble for stalking someone, that's funny. Awesome your parents were able to help you out with your schooling, gotta like that. Good luck with completing the police schooling.
I guess not every incident is a case of stupidity, like yours for instance. No one really expects a rattler in the bathroom, but I bet you do now lol. That's good, because you may see another again, and your story may prevent others from being in the same scenario.. Just sucks you had to take a hit for it lol. I've never been bit by a rattle snake, but I have been bit by many things, the only one coming close would be a black widow bite, or one of my carpet python bites. How did you react to it? Did you use antivenom? How large were it's fangs? Did it make you sick? Just curious is all..

theapexgerman · 02-27-12, 02:51 AM

It was a sidewinder so not to big they get no were near as a diamondback the sidewinder look to maybe one or two years old but 10 years ago they didn't have all the anti venom as they do now so when I got bit I felt a sharp pain then leg felt numb but a shocking feeling got to the ER quick then they started to give me the anti venom my leg turned black to purpleish look very nasty I was in the ER for a week or two my leg still hurts to this day do tp the bite nerve dammage remains even when I got out of the ER I couldn't keep much food down everything I put in my mouth felt like metal and to this day I keep my bathroom cabints lids close and there in the rear of the bathroom so I can see when I walk in

Caylan · 02-27-12, 03:35 AM

Jeeez sounds like lots of fun..... kinda wished I was wrong lol... But that's the nature of things I guess. Sorry to hear you went through such a brutal time with it, and young even... at least you survived it, could have been overhead and got you in the face instead... could have lost the leg... lots to grateful for from that experience still I guess. I love how we turned a thread titled kenyan sand boa thread into a 4 page debate about rattle snakes... Good luck on never getting bit again!

theapexgerman · 02-27-12, 03:39 AM

And just think I keep a coral snake to but he's calm every rattle snake I've seen trs to attack sidewinders are the worst doc said since it hit me in the leg it didn't spread to quick hurt like hell tho and everytime I get bite by my bull snake my leg begains to hurt really bad some spots I can't feel nothing like I could get stab and wouldn't feel it in a certain spot

Caylan · 02-27-12, 03:54 AM

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Originally Posted by theapexgerman

And just think I keep a coral snake to but he's calm every rattle snake I've seen trs to attack sidewinders are the worst doc said since it hit me in the leg it didn't spread to quick hurt like hell tho and everytime I get bite by my bull snake my leg begains to hurt really bad some spots I can't feel nothing like I could get stab and wouldn't feel it in a certain spot

Rattle snakes can be the same way... but most are the way you described. I couldn't risk keeping a coral snake myself. Odd how bites trigger a pain response in your leg, but yet it's paralysed in spots.... I can put out matches with my dog bite scars, so I know what you mean. Unfortunately it still burns me, but I don't feel it. The 2 teeth went in around 3/4" deep each, just big puncture wounds really. I think they're starting to heal up underneath the scar tissue not but it's hard to say. Crazy what we'll put ourselves through....

theapexgerman · 02-27-12, 04:05 AM

I never been bite by a dog but my guessing it would hurt like hell they got some killer bite strenght but I don't know why every time I get bite my leg hurts for a few minutes it really sucks to when I'm cleaning my bull snake cage I get bite like 4 times I got that sidewinder tooth around here some were it got stuck in my leg I was just glad it wasn't diamond back I would of probly be dead there venom is way more toxic than a sidewinder and what kind of dog bite you

Caylan · 02-27-12, 04:55 AM

German Shepard Cross Rottweiler. Really sweet dog, just was the first time I really met him and I start petting behind his ears and he thought I was going for his collar.... one quick snap, I didn't really feel it that night, insta shock. It was quite the bite, bled alot, massive puncture wound. Swelled up really good the next day and the scabs were like plugs that kept popping out because of where they were... for some reason all I got was butterfly sutures, not stitches... Could have been so much worse, I just got a warning bite. One of those to the face though and you could need surgery easy... my snake bite healed up fine.
Its a good thing it wasn't a diamond back that got you, that could have been far worse.
Bullsnakes are funny little guys aren't they? I love 'em.

theapexgerman · 02-27-12, 04:58 AM

Yea bull snakes are unique I tell you that I've seen some that are nice and then some that are really mean I got the bad apple one then hell hit his tail on the ground to make him sound like a rattler its quite funny