You are fortunate to live in Florida with ready access to serum, however it is not that expensive, the most expensive serum I ever bought was Taipan for 1200.00 per vial granted needing 5-7 or many more vials is a lot of money. What I am saying is people need to have access to anti venom besides the closest zoo. If you keep venomous snakes you should budget money to provide for serum before and during an ownership of serum, even local Crotalids and such should not be relying on the local hospital to provide serum for an "illegitimate" bite when there are "normal" people "accidentally" being bitten.

Don't get me wrong guys, I'm not attacking anyone personally, I am trying to change the way we go about owning these animals before the Feds do! Because it's comeing, if we don't weed out the people that are bad press, and start doing things responsibly we are not gonna be able to at all.

Oh, I would find my own Toxicologist in Miami besides "Venom One" to treat a bite to myself if I lived there, the things I have seen lead me to believe they innapropriately give serum many times when not needed. Many times acting like "Cowboys" themselves. My own two cents.

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