🐮 Lolcow Jeffrey Leibowitz / Not Dead Yet

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With his Kidneys turbofucked and all the shock to his system it's possible another organ like his heart or liver starts to fail too.
 
CircuSphere said:
Ball Pythons are like Chinamen
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That's a bit different because ball pythons have been bred in captivity so much that I'm pretty sure you'd be able to find noticeable appearance and behavioral difference from the ones in Africa. Reptile owners have created literal snake nigger cattle.
keke said:
If he had anti-venom immediately he would’ve likely been almost fine even with an adult.
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well that's the antivenom paradox when it comes to snakes that are not endemic to human populated areas
  • if you're in the wild and you get a bite where pussy antivenom would save your life you'd most likely be in the middle of nowhere, hours away from a hospital and by the time you get treatment you're screwed
  • if you have them in captivity you SHOULD be a researcher and either you won't need the pussy ass antivenom or you'll have it in hand for immediate use because you're an experienced handler and won't get bitten and/or you're prepared for an accident while milking the snake.
Being away from medical care increases the danger of incidents that are not a big deal otherwise, I saw someone almost die because a fucking eyelash viper got him in the jaw when we were walking trough some densely packed trees and he was pushing branches away from his face, his lower face and neck didn't swell enough to close his throat when he got to the hospital but he was saying the George Floyd line.
 
Here’s Steve Irwin kino featuring an inland taipan. He must have been so confident because in addition to being a highly trained professional, his camera crew almost certainly had an ample supply of antivenom on hand.
 
When I see snakes and spiders, my monkey brain takes over and tells me the creature must die.
I don't care about any ecological argument - Ireland doesn't have snakes and seems to do alright.
 
Dindu update, sure there were bugs but they weren't his bugs

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No Batty Boys in Jamaica said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HXh0rLQPK5gHere’s Steve Irwin kino featuring an inland taipan. He must have been so confident because in addition to being a highly trained professional, his camera crew almost certainly had an ample supply of antivenom on hand.
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Of all the animals to get this absolute legend, it would be a fucking sting ray. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor.
 
Is antivenom commercially available? I always assumed it was prohibitively expensive for anyone but large institutions, but this thread makes it sound like you can purchase it as long as you’re willing to pony up $4K per dose.

The Noticer said:
Ireland doesn't have snakes and seems to do alright
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You might want to check again.
 
We have rattle snakes here, and the anti venom supposedly works pretty good, and you can just get it at the hospital, and even if you just treat it the cowboy way most people survived and were pretty much ok. So maybe you could talk me into having something like that in the house, but fuck anything that isn't reasonably recoverable from. What a mongoloid.
 
One little part is always just a teensy-tiny bit sad because this is someone's brother or son or whatever, and they probably actually care about the retard. Oh well.

Anyway, seeing the early argument about "people who don't want dogs or cats or fish or birds, but reptiles which are hard to take care of", it reminded me of a thing very early in my life that I'm still proud of, 6 or 7 years old, when I found a really cool salamander I decided I wanted to keep. Took an old, big fish tank, planted a bunch of grass and other stuff, even a little chestnut tree in it, tossed in a bunch of crickets, and just a little tin dish nestled nicely in there as its own little pond, and for years literally the only thing I had to do was replace the water. I made its own little self-sustaining ecosystem! But man, my parents weren't fan of having crickets chirping inside the house all night, lol.
But, ya can't get easier to care for than that!

I learned a weird thing about crickets, though: they know what season it is even while inside, without the temperature changing, etc. They still go quiet once the winter comes and start again in the late spring. Still to this day, can't figure out how they really could tell. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
I believe there is some multi viper anti venom which covers the vast majority of snakes that live in human populated areas, so they only have to carry 3 or 4 types total to cover essentially all bites that happen close enough to a hospital for them to matter.
 
Shelf life for Antivenin is also an issue. If you are a hospital, will you seriously spend thousands of dollars for something that will sit on a shelf for a few months before it needs to be thrown away and replaced? Or do you just not spend that money because who is getting bit by Inland Taipans in fucking Myrtle Beach, SC. Waste of resources.

It's also important to remember how it's made too. Some absolutely insane person has to handle an Inland Taipan and "milk it". Needless to say the payment for this service is #notcheap.

 
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