What do I do when a rattle snake sees me?

Answer 1

More importantly, what do you do when you see a rattlesnake. Simply put, try and avoid it. If a rattler is aware of your presence it will try and warn you first so, if you hear it rattling avoid the area where you hear the sound emmanating from unless you really feel like messing with trouble. I would discourage trying to catch a rattlesnake, aside from being venomous rattlesnakes can also carry rabies and other unpleasant diseases. Sometimes rattlers "snooze" on a trail or in a good hiking spot so, it is possible for you to surprise each other. If you come upon a rattler by surprise, run, jump do what you've got to do to get away from it quickly and it will probably do the same. A rattler is more afraid of you then you are of it (just look at the size difference) and would rather run from you than fight. It will only try and bite you if it feels its life is threatened so move away from the snake, not towards it. Since you are not a mouse or other food source for the snake it would rather not waste its venom on you. In order to strike at you the rattler has to be coiled up first. If you come upon a coiled rattlesnake move away from it as quickly as possible, again, run jump, get out of its way. Rattlers detect you by smell, not sight so, if you move quickly away from a striking rattler you have a very good chance of avoiding it... don't stick around for its next strike.

If you do get bit don't panic and try not to stress. In most cases of rattler bites the snake only delivers enough poison to make you sick with flu like symptoms, not kill you. Seek medical attention, there is a readily available antidote for rattler bites and hospitals in areas where rattlers are a potential problem tend to have it on hand or can get it quickly. You'll be right as rain in no time after the antidote. If you're hiking with friends have them carry you out, you want to exert yourself as little as possible because your heartbeat spreads the poison throughout your bloodstream... faster heartbeat, faster spread. If you are by yourself don't panic, you've got time. Get yourself to a hospital quickly as possible but the more calm you can remain the better off your survival rates are. A rattler bite is painful but, unless you are very very young or very old it probably is not going to be fatal.

Finally, don't go out trying to find rattlers to kill them. They are an important part of the ecosystem here in America and a beautiful animal (okay, from a distance). They keep down populations of pesky creatures like rats and deserve to be kept a part of this great country of ours.

Answer 2

Well last time I checked, your being a human makes you a whole lot bigger then a rattle snake. Most likely the snake will try to get away from you, let it. Don't pick up any snake in the wild, heck they all can bite and you can always get in infection. Rattle snakes are not the demons they are portrayed as. They don't chase people, they can't eat you. Those people that do get bit will tell you that they did something wrong in the snakes territory that caused them to get bit. If you do get bit, most likely you will not die anyway. It will cause lots of pain, but if you get to a hospital you have better the 1 chance in 1000 of living, and even if you get no medical attention at all a 1 in 7 chance of not dying from it. These is a strong chance that you will never get bit by a rattle snake. However, depending on where you live, it may be a normal thing to see one. When I lived in San Diego County, we saw several over a 2 year spand. We never had anyone bit and did not have to do anything different to stay away from them.

Answer 3

i assumed i might on no account say this yet I omit rattle snakes. you notice in Alaska we don’t have snakes. And whilst that would sound super to a pair, to me I omit all the exciting. Ya comprehend you attain on your fishing stringer by using the financial business enterprise and OH look right here..a copper head! or you shove the canoe off the financial business enterprise and; OH look right here a cottonmouth! or you strolling with the female on a summer season day and rattle rattle, Oh look a rattle snake! I remember waking up one morning in mid-west barren region and located a rattle snake decrease than my drowsing bag..oh excitement excitement! I additionally remember how we had some one on the financial business enterprise with a gun whilst we swam interior the river because of the fact of all the snakes interior the water down interior the Ozarks. They made existence *exciting*. and that i visit on no account forget the style of a cottonmouth cooked on the financial business enterprise, smelled stable yet tasted like a stringy greasy rope with a fish style…yet we boys ate it! Rattlesnake tastes far greater effective! as quickly as I lived interior the Ozarks we shot each and every poisonous snake we observed and no rely what proportion we shot, there could be greater the subsequent year. So I in simple terms have been given to the element that I left them on my own in the event that they have been interior the woods and basically shot them close to the residing house. Now I pay attention in some places you may kill them in any respect. Too undesirable, fried rattle snake is going properly with bull frog legs, smoked ham, roastinears, taters and pink eye gravy. possibly we desire a rattle snake restoration plan in Alaska! on no account ideas them on no account residing right here, who cares? after all as chilly because it gets right here, you have rattle snake popsicle sticks! lol

Answer 4

There are very very few aggressive species in the animal world--humans being the most aggressive. Anyway, most animals would choose flight instead of fight in any encounter. Unless it is cornered or protecting something--like a mother bear and a cub--the animal will try to flee. So, if it sees you, don't go near it and provoke a fight. Let it decide running away is a good choice. If where it runs to is a hole, don't go in the hole after it...bad idea..very bad idea.

Answer 5

Stand still. Find the snake and then, very slowly, back directly away from it.

Answer 6

avoid it, walk in the opposite direction. Also, snakes DO NOT carry rabies, like someone else suggested.

Answer 7

Try to convince it that you're a snake too. draw out your "S"s like , SSSSSSSay. SSSSSo What'sssss up?

Answer 8

Leave it alone!

Answer 9

I don't know tell me!

Answer 10

hope you saw him first.