[Sca-cooks] snake

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    My pet pygmy rattler, Alphonse, bit me a few times, but hit me with
venom only once, when he was molting and his eye plates were clouded. I
think he was going for the heat of what he thought was a mouse (which was
dead and cold, dangling from my fingers). I just had some swelling, felt
like hell for a couple of days, and the bite site on my finger got pretty
nasty looking, but it was no biggy.
    However, he was the single best burglar deterrent you could imagine,
especially after I casually let it be known that I let him run loose around
the house at night to keep the vermin down. Several people on the street got
robbed, but not me . . . And NOTHING gets people's attention like a rattler
hanging around your neck, believe me!

    Sieggy

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>Maybe a differnce in matablolism.  I do know that even non-poisonus snakes
>can and do bite.  I also know that rattlesnakes can bite a warning bite and
>withhold injection venom.  Been down both those roads but I am not allergic
>to rattlesnake venom and when I have gotten bit I just get queezy for a
>while.
>Olwen, junior snake torturer