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Great set of pics.....Looks like you pissed him off. Did you let him live? or make a hat band out of him?
Great pic Miller... did you whack that evil devil afterword?
As the days heat up, hibernating western diamondback rattlesnakes have begun to poke out of their winter dens. As they wake, members of the most common venomous species in the Big Country have encountered into humans and their pets. The run-ins can be quite costly -- depending on how much venom is injected, the bites may cost some their lives; for others who survive, there is still a price to pay. Human treatments can cost more than $12,000, and the treatment for animals can cost more than $2,000.
Of his friends and colleagues that have been bitten, many where bitten when they got careless, he said. Larry Lemon, the Abilene Zoo reptile director, said it seems to him that most people are bitten when they're trying to catch snakes. Lemon knows from experience -- he was bitten on the finger by a pygmy rattlesnake from Florida.