Snakes on a Shannon!

[ShannonS]

Here is a picture of me with a western diamondback rattlesnake on my head!

If I can sit around with a pit viper on my head, you can go vote. It's very easy to do and not even slightly dangerous

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[whiskey]

All I can say is....OMG...thanks for sharing Shannon!!!

 

[WillieB69]

Did you jion one of those "snake charmer" churches??

 

[ShannonS]

No, but I handle all sorts of snakes as a semi-professional hobby. Just wanted to help draw attention to what is important .... voting !!

 

[Knifemaker]

I live just a few miles south of ogelsbe. (sp?) The Texas R.Snake round up place. Man, those critters taste GOOD!!!

 

[mrjaguar]

all I can say is I already voted.. please don't put poisonous snakes on me.

 

[ShannonS]

I live just a few miles south of ogelsbe. (sp?) The Texas R.Snake round up place. Man, those critters taste GOOD!!!

LOL that picture was taken at Oglesby.

 

[shanagan]

Gah! I live a few miles north of another famous roundup place - Sweetwater TX - AND my daughter (who is now 13) was bitten by one when she was 7 (full hot shot, the snake was being "charmed" by her kitten - she ran out to get her kitten, and bam).

NO. THANK. YOU.

 

[Garrell6888]

Haha, I like your philosophy. ECF should have a like button.

 

[ShannonS]

Gah! I live a few miles north of another famous roundup place - Sweetwater TX - AND my daughter (who is now 13) was bitten by one when she was 7 (full hot shot, the snake was being "charmed" by her kitten - she ran out to get her kitten, and bam).

NO. THANK. YOU.

Teaching young people how to safely deal with our native Texas Wildlife is the main reason I sit around with snakes on my head. They come to see me do tricks with snakes but they leave with a lesson on snake and wildlife safety that seems to make a lasting impression. I hope your daughter has fully recovered, I know exactly how painful and dangerous a rattlesnake bite can be.

 

[bigb]

Screw that!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As a very outdoorsy person in living in the phoenix, I double that. Ive had way too many rattler encounters to put one on my head. They are cool without a doubt, just not when their trying to kill me lol.

 

[ShannonS]

Please don't put snakes on your head. I didn't think that with adults only here I would need to add a disclaimer but now I'm concerned. So, just to be on the safe side:

I'm a trained reptile handler with years of experience. I do some television work and lots of public education. There are safety precautions used that aren't evident in pictures and special handling techniques to ensure safety. Even then, I knowingly accept the risks involved and know that I could be bitten at any time. When I do stunts, there are paramedics on standby right outside the camera shot.

If you encounter a snake in the wild, move away from it very slowly. The most common venomous US snakes aren't particularly aggressive and just want to be left alone and won't bite unless threatened. Do not touch it and most especially don't put it on your head

No snakes or humans were harmed in the making of this funny post intended to draw attention to vaper's rights.

 

[shanagan]

Teaching young people how to safely deal with our native Texas Wildlife is the main reason I sit around with snakes on my head. They come to see me do tricks with snakes but they leave with a lesson on snake and wildlife safety that seems to make a lasting impression. I hope your daughter has fully recovered, I know exactly how painful and dangerous a rattlesnake bite can be.

There comes a time when you have to add prayer to education out here - it's just the luck of the draw on some days. (I have to admit, I'm a born & bred Texan from rural west TX - and even I had NO clue just what we'd be facing when she was struck. One Life-flight, several CTscans & an honest-to-goodness miracle later... the dangers simply cannot be overstated.)

Oh - she's fine now - she's the luckiest unlucky girl you'd ever meet.

 

[shanagan]

Please don't put snakes on your head. I didn't think that with adults only here I would need to add a disclaimer but now I'm concerned. So, just to be on the safe side:

I'm a trained reptile handler with years of experience. I do some television work and lots of public education. There are safety precautions used that aren't evident in pictures and special handling techniques to ensure safety. Even then, I knowingly accept the risks involved and know that I could be bitten at any time. When I do stunts, there are paramedics on standby right outside the camera shot.

If you encounter a snake in the wild, move away from it very slowly. The most common venomous US snakes aren't particularly aggressive and just want to be left alone and won't bite unless threatened. Do not touch it and most especially don't put it on your head

No snakes or humans were harmed in the making of this funny post intended to draw attention to vaper's rights.

LOL, sorry to have dragged you off-track - I rather obviously have a vested interest.

 

[Israfil]

I do hope you had that rattler's poison removed.... Don't want one of our local cute redheads gettin poisoned.

(already voted)

 

[ec!gg]

You are one brave person. I use to own a red tail boa and I would not think twice about putting him on my head. I like snakes and all, but I would not take a chance with a rattler. It only takes one bite, right?

 

[Knifemaker]

Poor thing. Did she have much tissue damage?

Shannon I live in Mound. Just South East of Gatesville.

I use to have a friend named Dr. Jeny. He was said to be the top in his field. He introduced me to King Soloman. Man, that was one HUGE King Cobra! He could stand up and look me stright in the eye's!

 

[ShannonS]

I do hope you had that rattler's poison removed.... Don't want one of our local cute redheads gettin poisoned.

(already voted)

*blush*

We were actually out your way recently doing stunts for America's Got Talent. My group was voted to move on to the semi round but a week later the producer called and told us that a certain judge was too afraid of the snakes and we were washed out. Howie loved us though.

The snakes I use for stunts aren't altered in any way. That would harm the snake. I'm okay with eating snake meat when the population needs to be culled but torturing one for the sake of a photo op is just wrong. Safety is achieved by moving very slowly, not threatening them and by understanding reptile behavior. You can trigger certain instinctive responses in snakes by performing certain movements. Some people call this 'charming' the snake. So I guess you can say that I "charmed" the snake to sit on my head and not bite me.

 

[shanagan]

Poor thing. Did she have much tissue damage?

None. You can't even see a spot from where she was bitten. If you'd seen her leg you wouldn't believe it - she was bitten on her calf, and from her toes to up behind her kidney was solid black and swollen to roughly double-size. But somehow she didn't get compartment syndrome (which essentially is when the circulation gets strangled from the swelling), didn't have kidney damage... nada. That's the good news. The bad news is that she has had the maximum known-safe amount of antivenin for an adult - and can't ever receive antivenin again, supposedly. I figure at this point she's probably got more than enough remaining in her system to be good, tho.

Seriously, she was amazingly lucky considering the amount of venom she apparently received.

 

[Knifemaker]

I didn't Know abut not being able to get it again.

That is one lucky-unlucky girl!

I love the meat from young rattler. It, to me taste a lot like the leg meat of Quail.
Which is non-existent here now days thanks to all the damed fire ants!

And it's all back strap! ( You hunters here will know what I mean. You non hunters, It's the Filet Mignon!

Mike