Traditions 1000 Lube

[S.Kenton]

Not to hijack a thread .....but I googled fluid film...watch the video...found that my local lowes hardware sells it...so got some yesterday. I've never heard of it until I seen this thread. Thanks CC

 

[hanshi]

Yes we do have timber rattlers (crotalus horridus). Back when I lived in Ga. we had "canebrake rattlers" a relative of the timber rattler. They are different and relatively easy to recognise. They get extremely large, are becoming increasingly toxic - scientists are not sure why - and we had them all over the yard and on the porch. My dog got bitten by a copperhead; she was a large dog and survived. Had it been a canebrake she would have died in minutes.

 

[azmntman]

ff If you live in an area where your furry better half runs a high risk of a rattler bite GET THEM VACCINATED! Will give the dog about 4-5 extra hours to get to the vet and get life saving treatment, it is NOT EXPENSIVE. Son is a vet tech and though we only see 6-8 bites a year up here (mostly from the same dry lake bed?) the vaccine will save em and cut costs. Anti Venom is NOT CHEAP. His clinic doesn't mark it up and they pay like $800.00 a vial? Maybe more, don't recall (NOT less though). Figure a bad bite can take 4-6 vials easy and you have a heartbreaking (or wallet busting) decision to make (they usually are bitten several times too). I have not got mine vaccinated as I have seen only one rattler in any areas I EVER would take my best buddy (in 48 years). If I lived in a rattler prone area it would get done religiously!

sorry for thread stealing and off topic but the "it doesn't happen to me" thing is not something to mess with with a dog and a rattler :nono: