Katelyn & Co Snake Catching & Wildlife Resecue

Happy Tuesday everyone

When are people going to learn?

When is DETSI going to start educating and creating awareness around snakes?

When is DETSI going to let the public know about the rules associated with handling, interfering and killing snakes?

Its pretty simple:
- do not pick up or interfere with snakes (without permits)
- do not kill snakes
- if you need a snake relocated call a professional snake catcher, and make sure they are a reputable business and not some dude from a community board.

Common sense please everyone. Make good choices. Picking up snakes is NOT A GOOD CHOICE!

This is an Eastern Brown snake, the second most venomous snake in the world.

Every year, snakebite is an often-overlooked crisis affecting millions of people around the world. It’s not only about deaths — many survivors live with long-term injuries that deeply affect their lives. Awareness saves lives. Share this message.

Key Statistics
• Globally, an estimated 1.2 to 5.5 million people are envenomed by snakebites each year. 
• Deaths: over 125,000 fatalities annually are attributed to snakebite envenoming. 
• Regions most affected are South & Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. 

⚠️ Long-Term Injuries

Surviving a snakebite doesn’t always mean full recovery. Many victims face lasting physical, psychological, and socio-economic challenges. Some of the most common long-term effects include:
• Physical disability: including amputations, paralysis, restricted mobility of affected limbs. 
• Tissue damage & scarring: necrosis (dead tissue), chronic wounds, and loss of function in the bitten area. 
• Kidney damage and organ dysfunction: in severe cases, venom impacts internal organs, possibly leading to chronic kidney disease. 
• Neurotoxicity: nerve damage, loss of sensation, motor deficits. 
• Psychological effects: trauma, anxiety, depression, especially where disfigurement or disability results. 
• Socio-economic impact: loss of income, costly medical care, ongoing rehabilitation over months or years. 

What We Can Do
• Educate communities in high-risk areas about how to avoid snakebite and what to do immediately after one occurs.
• Improve access to effective antivenom and timely medical care.
• Support rehabilitation services (physical and psychological) for survivors.
• Advocate for more research and data on snakebite, especially on long-term outcomes.

Every share brings us closer to reducing deaths and disability. 🙏
Originally Posted by Sean McCarthy from snake handler please feel free to share

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The heat today has taken its toll on the wildlife and there’s two more days of it ahead. This dehydrated Sulphur fell quite a distance from the trees onto a roof tonight. Best way to help them get through the heat is shallow trays of water left in the shade, sprinklers on under trees to cool the air and to enable them to lick the water running down the trunk and branches.
Thankyou.
Edit.
Sadly this young fella injured his spine from the fall and was paralyzed.