Our horse, bitten on the pastern, wasn't so
lucky. Lots of necrotic damage, so much pressure that his hoof is
permanently distorted, but he is a usable horse, for pleasure if not for
endurance. We haven't really tried to re-condition him for endurance since
he came sound, which has been a few years.
I have been lucky that my horses all got better with treatment from
rattlesnake bites and had no necrotic tissue damage. There is a vaccine
out for dogs and my dogs have all been innoculated....mb
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Weary DC" <bweary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To:
"Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent:
Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:05:37 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject:
[RC] Big Snake
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
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