The Rattlesnake adventure

[duckboy]

Well, In addition to getting my dogs Snake shots, I decided to go out to Scappose today with Alex and ginger to get them their real life exposure to some Live and (VERY AGGITATED rattlesnakes)


I met some nice folks out there, most folks had purebred dogs, and I think that they were a little taken aback by my hounds, being that they are of very mixed descent, I suppose i should expect a fair amount suprise when i tell folks that these dogs of mine hunt up birds, Badgers, rabbits, Coons, Turtles, and carp.

I was able to shake hands and meet a few nice folks that were supportive of the mindset that "any dog that will bring back game is a worthy pup" idea.

So I had the handlers walk each dog through the course, and they had 3 different snakes in real life settings.

They have an area with blackberry patches, and fields etc... so the dog thinks it is just out walking/hunting/ exploring, and when it comes into contact with the snake, they let the dog get up to it and sniff (meanwhile the rattles rattle and the snake coils up) and then they JUICE THE HECK out of the dog with a shock collar..

I suppose it could be viewed as barbaric by some folks, but I was very happy that I took the dogs through the course and gave them a bit of an education about how much bad news a Rattler really is.


I'd rather have a shocked dog that come back wagging its rain rotted tail.

Then a dead dog or a dog that is wrecked by a snake bite.


Nice folks, worth the money, definitley a good investment at $40 a dog.

[Fishstix]

Wow, I have never heard about this. Easy way to teach the dogs.

[rimrock]

Were they de-fanged snakes?

[duckboy]

I asked a nice young man names Daniel, about the snakes
.. (he had one of those crooks that folks can telescope out to deal with reptiles)

He said that the snakes have plugs in their ducts (where the poison flows) He said that some of em also have their fangs snubbed just before the event so that they can not envenomate)

[Capin' Dan]

Wow now if someone would offer one of these for porqupines (sp) I'd have it made

[fish0n]

I seen this on TV before. But they had the snakes mouth tied shut with some string. They would let the dog go over to the snake and they would zap em each time the snake would strike the dog until the dog didnt want to play with the snake any more.

[Tilla]

So I wasn't too far off the mark with my statement.

"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! No! Zap! Yelp!
Quite easy actually. "

[duckboy]

Yep...