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« on: July 07, 2008, 03:11:18 AM »
a male customer was bitten by a pigmy rattlesnake as he was reaching to get a plant
happened in Florida
these snakes are small and wait for their prey
they like to stay still
the customer has acute anuric renal failure
he wants Walmart to warn customers
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Be careful folks, who knows where renal failure will strike again
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« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2008, 06:14:57 AM »
Wow, I have never heard of then until now.  I did a search on them and they can be pretty small.....  14 - 22 inches!  At that size, they can hide pretty well... in my neck of the woods (West Texas) our rattlesnakes get to be about 6 foot ( I have seen one over 8 feet with my own two eyes!).  At least our rattlers are easy to spot! 

Another thing.... on the image search I did on these pygmy rattlesnakes... you couldn't really see a rattle.... so be careful.
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« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2008, 01:38:07 PM »
I have killed three in the last year in my yard- one as i uprooted a bush it was at the base of it in the branches, one was just sitting by the back pourch and one was in the driveway-- no-one is ever allowed to go barefoot outside....nasty little snakes.
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« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2008, 01:51:50 PM »
I never heard of them before our rattlers here in Texas are long and loud
these little snakes barely make a purr sound
I would think they were harmless grass snakes
kind of gives me the creeps
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« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2008, 02:21:50 PM »
both tiimes - i was skeptical of what it was at first- they are really small. being skeptical just made it more dangerous for me- living in this place full of swamp bugs and snakes has made my gardening much less joyfull over the years... :-\
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« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2008, 05:31:56 PM »

No barefooting?? I don't think I could make it through the summer!
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« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2008, 05:49:53 PM »
Unless you live in the south, you'll probably never see one. They don't have a lot of venom and bites are very seldom fatal.
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« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2008, 05:58:53 PM »
but they do cause renal failure
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« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2008, 07:28:08 PM »
so do most other poisonous snake bites
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« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2008, 08:58:32 AM »
Oh my goodness. Now I am afraid of these snakes. The feet are off my floor!  I almost stepped on a diamond back one time in Garner Valley. The snake was four feet long.
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« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2008, 05:27:09 PM »
If it makes you feel better, only something like 10% of untreated poisonous snakebites in the U.S. are fatal.
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