Poisonous snakes - A pet peeve of mine.

[Rawbbeh]

There's no such thing as a poisonous snake. Most of you herpers here know this.

Tired of hearing of "poisonous snakes" on the news, animal planet, from uneducated people etc etc. Same thing with spiders, I know of no poisonous spiders (and scorpions!)

Although it hurts my ears to hear people call them poisonous as much as it hurts to hear This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbTsebLs7yU

I continually educate the uneducated...

Poison...is INJESTED, like rat poison....they eat it...and they die.
Venom, as in VENOMOUS, is injected, like doctors give you shots with a needle, venomous creatures use their fangs to deliver their payload.


/rant off


Had to rant because in the 5 seconds i heard from some program on animal planet, they were talking about how DANGEROUS this POISONOUS copperhead snake is.