subject: rattlesnake vaccinations
For those neighbors who had th first of two rattlesnake vaccines for your dog at the fork in the road, we’ll be able to administer #2 of the vaccine on Saturday, July 3 at 8am at the fork in the road. The vet who was due to be here two weeks ago has had a family emergency, but he has passed the serum on to Lori ...
It goes on to explain that the vet who shot up the dogs last time and can't make it, passed the dope on to Lori* and some chick* who is a veterinarian tech student who will be able to do the job. At The Fork In The Road, of course. That is where the long dirt road which winds its way up here by means of several switchbacks divides into two parts; the one which goes straight and the one that curves left past my abode.
*It is assumed that everyone knows Lori and the other dame. I have no idea who they are. I'm not part of the inner circle and the cool clique here, obviously
My question is this: If dogs can get a vaccine ahead of time, why can't humans? and..what would be the side effects? If it is merely slurred speech, I can see why dogs wouldn't care. I bet they shouldn't operate heavy machinery.
I've seen several flyers out this way, at the Descanso post office, and in Alpine, for classes to teach your dog not to play with rattlesnakes. I feel ignorant. No one taught me anything about how to be rattler savvy. Between bears and rattlesnakes, I'm wondering if I should be re-thinking this life as Western Man.
So, if one brings me coffee can we be friends?
What about vaccinations for the snakes themselves, as promised by the title of the flyer?
ReplyDeleteI lie awake at night worrying that rattlesnakes might get measles, or whooping cough. Didja ever hear a snake cough? It ain't pretty.
Some animal medications are human drugs that were banned/removed from sale as unsafe or ineffective.
Some guy invented a cheap pill that protects humans from snakebite, but the pharmaceutical industry bought him off. I'm sure of it.
Good point. I expect some California group to decry the efforts to save human and pet from snake as environmentally unfriendly and racist. A lawyer somewhere is plotting a class action suit, I am sure.
ReplyDeleteI would think that the easiest way to teach your dog not to play with snakes is to let them play with snakes: once.
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