Well, I was chuckling through your story until I got to the part about
the cat bite already starting to swell. Anytime a bite is bad enough to
send me to the hospital the story I tell is always about a stray, (not
feral), just a scared little kitty that I tried to yank by the tail out
from under a car. No, I have never seen her before, (I make up an
elaborate description, she had a mustache like Hitler, or some such
nonsense), and she ran like a bolt after she bit me. I live in CA too
and they always suggest a series of rabbies shots and I always refuse
them. No one can make you take the treatments, at least no one has ever
tried to force them on me. Bruce was the last one to get bit and he
refused to go to the doctor when it began to swell. By the time I was
ready to knock him unconscious to get him there, (the next day), he
needed the injectable Augmentin, (a series of them for several weeks).
The doctor kept shaking his head and talking about admitting him to the
hospital for iv antibiotics, but he was able to fight off the infection
with mega doses of oral and the injectables. You can order Augmentin wo
a script from:
http://www.1drugstore-online.com/showprice.asp?name=Augmentin&bysearch=ok&Go.x=9&Go.y=6
<http://www.1drugstore-online.com/showprice.asp?name=Augmentin&bysearch=ok&Go.x=9&Go.y=6>
Be sure and let us know how you are doing. I hope that grateful little
garter snake figures out a way to avoid the hawks and you haven't set
back your feral's socialization too much. Let's hope that snake lets
his friends know that your house is less safe than the bushes. Next
time tell your assistant to bring a net with her along with the boots
and rake.
Nina
Kelly L wrote:
Ok..So I am alone and head into the bedroom to see several cats
curiously looking under the dresser. this can mean, a toad, a bird, a
gopher or snake,,,I have already removed a few garter snakes from the
cats this year,,, i got down on my hand and knees,,,shooing the cats
away and heard a very irritated snake under the dresser. i could not
tell if it was a gopher snake or a rattle snake,,,So now what,,there
are 13 cats in there and i tried to get them out with out scaring them
under the dresser,,favorite hiding place,,I did not want to leave as i
needed to keep track of the snake, I tossed a few cats in the
bathroom,,slammed the door,,,got one into the closet and scared a few
into my cat inclosure and locked them out, that left only 4 more,
I called Ashley, my cat helper to come give me a hand,,She arrived a
few moments later,,,boots,,,rake and pail,,,but i still needed to get
one feral out of the room,,,Well I grabbed her by the scuff and was
almost out the door but she turned and really got me good, Several
very deep bites but I got her out,
Well we got the snake out and once in the light it looked more like a
poor little scared gopher snake so we took him out to the vineyards to
release him,,, I have pictures if anyone wants to see him,,,
the moral of the story is ..well there may not be one,,find a snake in
your room and go the emergency room with a cat bite!!
What is strange is I have a pair of Red Tail hawks nesting in my palm
tree and eating on the telephone pole out side my window,,,each day
they seem to come home dangling a snake and i was just commenting that
all my snakes will disappear,,,hmmm
Kelly
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