"AndyS" wrote in message
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Andy writes;
Anybody else here had a close call, or a bite, while
gardening......?????

Andy in Eureka, Texas


I have had to deal with three western diamondbacks, a sidewinder, and a
Mohave green this spring and the season is just beginning. Not exactly
gardening, but the Mohave was under the stairs down to my pool yard. I
reached through the steps to pull out a frisbee and didn't see the snake
just inches away until after I'd grabbed it (the frisbee, not the snake).
My dog likes to hang out in the shade under the steps and dropped the
frisbee when he saw the snake. He was bit on the nose last year by a
diamondback and avoids snakes at all costs. It was an expensive lesson as
anitvenin is costly - not to mention the pain he suffered. It's unsettling,
to say the least, to step out the door and find a rattler under foot.