Arrested Development - Ex-Pats Mexico

Pamela, No reason to worry ...unless you have passed...LOL...Please contact Lakeside wildlife rescue...Vern or Lorie Geiger 765-4916......few snakes in Jalisco are venimous to the life threatening extent...I have been a volunteer for 4 years....haven't lost a volunteer yet

jim

Poor snake - was probably more afraid that Pam was going to bite him back!?!? (mean't in the nice way Pam )

I remember losing a childhood Doberman too. I know people who won't keep dogs and cats - because they can't handle their short life spans. Mind you - the last of my parent's white poodles lived to 18 years in Mexico, no one there could believe it.

PAM IF YOU ARE FEELING THREATEND....and need mouth to mouth....I can save you!!!!

The Doberman was given to me about 3 years ago by a woman here who had him for 8 years. I've never seen a dog that sick before. His eyes were red and watering, he had bald spots, flies swarming around him, he couldn't walk more than two feet without laying down. I had to spend what to me was a small fortune to get him healthy, or healthier. Got his skin problems cleared up but that took over a year, kept him on Bactrim because he had bladder stones from being kenneled for too long at a time and he couldn't urinate, got rid of whatever parasites, bacteria and whatever else he had. Then the problem was his back. He had a severe back injury (probably from being beaten) that caused weakness in his hind legs and he fell down a lot. In the last few weeks he got to where he was soiling himself when he slept. He lost bladder and intestinal control. The other day he couldn't get up to eat. The old boy loved to eat. I always cooked chicken livers and rice and mixed that with the dry food and the dogs were fed twice a day. Eating was his greatest pleasure so when he couldn't eat and was urinating all over himself, it was time to be put down.

I have 5 other dogs and I hope someone horse whips me if I ever let an animal get in the shape that poor Doberman was in when that woman had him. I can't imagine how much that dog suffered because of her lack of care, maybe even abuse, of him.

I didn't want him, but there was no way I could have slept at night imagining his misery.

He had a very happy last few years. I only wish that all his years could have been happy.

Of course the snake was frightened. It didn't know what I was going to do to it and that's why it bit me.

Animals love me. I have never had a problem with any animals and I've had pet raccoons, ferrets, all the normal pets like dogs and cats, rabbits, birds and so on. I don't expect an animal to be anything other than what it's nature demands it to be. In other-words, I don't think animals are small humans and I don't expect them to be anything other than what they are.

Pam, We need volunteers.....without fear of wildlife!!!! Please join us.

jw

Yes Pam - it is just sad, that a good person, gets sad, for doing the things which make them a good person. It will get better - you will see.

Pamela:

Since you are repeatedly out to prove to all of us just how smart you are, I would suggest that you keep handling all the snakes that you come across. Maybe the Guadalajara Zoo has some very exotic types, so you can keep tempting fate and expecting rapid answers to your questions on the forum. Should you run across a Cobra (any of the various types), you should be aware that one only has around 15 minutes to receive a shot and even then you can expect a nice relaxing stay in El Hospital for a few days. Been there done - done that! Every snake is potentially a bad snake in my book!

I don't have the time to take care of all the animals I have now plus housework and take care of two yards. I would love to volunteer but I don't have that much left over energy.

Animals I have:

Two Peahens and a Peacock and now 4 four week old Peachicks. They are the cutest things. I thunk one is a cock because he puts his little stubby tail and tries to scare the Bantams away from the food. He also jumped his sister. Don't know what I'm going to do with them when they are older.

Two Bantam chickens, a rooster and hen. He's hilarious. At about a pound and a half, he tries to chase any strangers who enter the yard and when he can see the big five pound neighborhood roosters, he tries to fight them.

Four cats I've gotten because they won't leave and a 5th a stray female who now has five kittens. Don't have a clue what I'm going to do with them.

Five dogs.

A parrot and two white fan tailed pigeons. I let the pigeons fly free and they hang out with the riff raff pigeons at the church but come home several times a day to visit.

Four Betta fish.

I think that's it. It's more than I can handle.

If you are afraid of snakes, that's your problem. You ridicule me because I am not? Why is not being afraid of something proving how smart I am? You really don't need to feel threatened every time someone is different than you. I wasn't reared to fear animals. I respect them and like I said, in all the years I have picked up reptiles this was the first time one has bitten me. Obviously I wouldn't go to a zoo and pick up cobras but if a poisonous snake was threatening to bite a child and I knew I had to take a chance on being bitten to protect the child, I would take that chance. You really do not need to go into exaggerated hysteria just because I do not fear animals and you do. Only a very small percentage of snakes are dangerous. If we did not have snakes we would be run over with vermin. Did you know that a snake is the only animal that doesn't have to go through quarantine because it has no known diseases? They are mostly very harmless and very beneficial animals.

Pam, why are you wasting our time...The snake bit you and died.......we were trying to help.....until you killed the snake .

jw