Lets blog about rattlers

I wanted to post some pictures but heck the thing just kept hanging....gosh!I think I tried like uploading pictures for umpteen time but it just keep popping up the error thingo!So irritating....Forget uploading it today!For those who are hungry to see my pictures that I stole from my friend,another day la (provided if I ever bother to upload and wait for blogger.com's irritating gilaness that drives me nuts!)Watched some boring movie about rattle snakes just now...Talking about snakes...I hate snakes but at the same time I'm amazed by how their venom works!But lets talk about rattle snakes to relate to the show I just watched......
Why do I hate rattle snakes?
They are icky animals that always gobble up cute birds and cute newborn animals...hey that's how National Geograpic Channel,Discovery and Animal Planet promotes brutality,alright?Not to mention that I hate its appearance,I also hate the way they move by sliding on its belly.Its rattle is bloody noisy and disgusting!The first evil came from snakes according to the bible but I'm not sure what species was the culprit...(Hmm I just thought of a joke once told by someone: If Adam and Eve were chinese,then mankind has no sin because before it manage to slander them to eat the apple at the Garden of Eden,it's made into snake soup as like the saying goes:Chinese prefer to eat anything that had their backs facing the sky....that's all I remember from the joke but as for the other parts?I forgot!)
Why do I like rattle snakes?
I'm amazed by how their venom works....Rattle snakes posses haemotoxic venom for most species...Once bitten,the venom destroys tissue,degenerates body organs and causing coagulopathy...If a person bitten is given an ineffective or delayed treatment,fatality may take place...Tropical rattlers have neurotoxic venom...It's venom causes the loss of the function of the heart and the lungs thus slowly shutting down the nervous system and lead to death....neurotoxic venom is also common on the cobra species.....
First aid when bitten by a rattler:
Antivenin is required to block the action of the venom....Keeping the area bitten lower than the position of the heart slows the rate of the venom travelling in the bloodstream...Victim of bites should also stay calm to avoid elevation of heart rate and thus acceleration of the flow of venom through the blood...Incision around the bitten area and the use of tourniquets...Forget the myth of sucking out venom from the bitten area as it will not help but worsen the condition....
Okay looks like this is more on a factsheet of rattle snakes but who cares....I'm bored so I just type whatever that crossed my mind!And hmm....I wonder how many people actually blog about rattle snakes...I must be one of the odds!